Interstellar Updates

 

These are items of interest to the interstellar exploration community that we’ve found in our quest for information that will help us advance toward our goals.  If you know of anything we’ve overlooked, or any sources of such information we should monitor, or if you would like to be added to our IRG-updates mailing list and receive these updates in you email every weekday, please send that information to info@irg.space.

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August 15, 2019 updates

Different Is More: The Value of Finding an Inhabited Planet That Is Far from Earth2.0
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2018.1833

Assessing the Intrinsic Uncertainty and Structural Stability of Planetary Models: 1) Parameterized Thermal‐Tectonic History Models
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2019JE005918

Constraining the Formation of the Four Terrestrial Planets in the Solar System
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.04934

Linking the Solar System and Extrasolar Planetary Systems with Radar Astronomy: Infrastructure for “Ground Truth” Comparison
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.05171

Multiverse Predictions for Habitability: Number of Potentially Habitable Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.06784

August 15, 2019 updates

Telescopes in Hawaii reopen after deal with protesters
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/08/telescopes-hawaii-reopen-after-deal-protesters

Follow That Planet! How Astronomers Chase New Worlds in TESS Data
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/follow-that-planet-how-astronomers-chase-new-worlds-in-tess-data

Kepler Object of Interest Network III. Kepler-82f: a new non-transiting 21 M⊕ planet from photodynamical modelling
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2019/08/aa35879-19/aa35879-19.html

Viscosity and Prandtl Number of Warm Dense Water as in Ice Giant Planets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab2d21

Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) by Fractal Universe
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221137971931736X

Earth as an Exoplanet: A Two-dimensional Alien Map
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.04350

Homogeneously derived transit timings for 17 exoplanets and reassessed TTV trends for WASP-12 and WASP-4
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.04505

Lack of close-in, massive planets of main-sequence A-type stars from Kepler
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.04570

Catalog for the ESPRESSO blind radial velocity exoplanet survey
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.04627

Red Dots: A temperate 1.5 Earth-mass planet in a compact multi-terrestrial planet system around GJ1061
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.04717

August 13, 2019 updates

Resonant Laplace-Lagrange theory for extrasolar systems in mean-motion resonance
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10569-019-9913-5

Biofluorescent Worlds I: Global Biological Fluorescence as a Biosignature
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.04089

Biofluorescent Worlds – II. Biological fluorescence induced by stellar UV flares, a new temporal biosignature
https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.06930

Higher Order Harmonics in the Light Curves of Eccentric Planetary Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.07078

Venus: Key to understanding the evolution of terrestrial planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.04269

Design Considerations for a Ground-Based Search for Transiting Planets around L and T Dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.03593

New Astronomy Reviews Special Issue: History of Kepler’s Major Exoplanet “Firsts”
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.03611

High-resolution Infrared Spectrograph for Exoplanet Characterization with the Keck and Thirty Meter Telescopes
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.03623

August 12, 2019 updates

Maximizing specific energy by breeding deuterium
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.00834

A Long-Term Vision for Space-Based Interferometry
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20190028276.pdf

Phobos LIFE (Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment)
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2018.1904

Hidden Concepts in the History and Philosophy of Origins-of-Life Studies: a Workshop Report
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11084-019-09580-x

The potassium absorption on HD189733b and HD209458b
https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnrasl/slz123/5548780

Estimating dayside effective temperatures of hot Jupiters and associated uncertainties through Gaussian process regression
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz2226/5548807

Analytic Planetary Transit Light Curves and Derivatives for Stars with Polynomial Limb Darkening
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.03222

A Great Successor to the Hubble Space Telescope
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.03277

Evolution of atmospheric escape in close-in giant planets and their associated Lyα and Hα transit predictions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.03510

August 9, 2019 updates

Life May Be Common in the Milky Way, Thanks to Comet Swapping
https://www.space.com/life-spread-around-galaxy-panspermia.html

The Climates of Other Worlds: A Review of the Emerging Field of Exoplanet Climatology
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/ab2fe7

SiO2 – SiC mixtures at high pressures and temperatures: Implications for planetary bodies containing SiC
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2018JE005856

Relativistic Astronomy. III. test of special relativity via Doppler effect
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.02985

Sulfate Aerosol Hazes and SO2 Gas as Constraints on Rocky Exoplanets’ Surface Liquid Water
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.02769

Characterizing the Distribution of Parameters of Planets Found by Radial Velocity is Essential for Understanding Planet Formation and Evolution
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.02771

Venus as a Laboratory for Exoplanetary Science
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.02783