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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January 18, 2019 updates

House spending bill fires warning shot at JWST
https://spacenews.com/house-spending-bill-fires-warning-shot-at-jwst/

A Wide Orbit Exoplanet OGLE-2012-BLG-0838Lb
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.05466

HARPS-N radial velocities confirm the low densities of the Kepler-9 planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.05471

Active Optics in Astonomy – Modeling of freeform deformable substrates – FIREBall and MESSIER
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.05650

Spitzer transit follow-up of planet candidates from the K2 mission
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.05855

January 16, 2019 updates

‘Oumuamua’s Geometry Could be More Extreme than Previously Inferred
https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/SL.pdf

Parasitic SETI and Parasitic Space Science
http://geopolicraticus.tumblr.com/post/182049010987/parasitic-seti-and-parasitic-space-science

The implications of clustered star formation for (proto)planetary systems and habitability
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.04491

A Pair of Planets Likely in Mean-Motion Resonance From Gravitational Microlensing
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.04495

EPIC 247418783b: A rocky super-Earth in a 2.2 day orbit
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.04558

Revisiting the dynamics of planets in binaries: evolutionary timescales and the effect of early stellar evolution
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.04582

Water delivery by pebble accretion to rocky planets in habitable zones in evolving disks
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.04611

Multiverse Predictions for Habitability: The Number of Stars and their Properties
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.04614

Self-supervised Anomaly Detection for Narrowband SETI
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.04636

A transiting super-Earth close to the inner edge of the habitable zone of an M0 dwarf star
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.04739

January 15, 2019 updates

EPIC 249624646: a warm Jupiter and a mini-Neptune in a triple-star system
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.03716

Towards More Reliable Analytic Thermochemical-equilibrium Abundances
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.03764

Lessons for WFIRST CGI from ground-based high-contrast systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.04049

Key Technologies for the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope Coronagraph Instrument
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.04050

A search for technosignatures from TRAPPIST-1, LHS 1140, and 10 planetary systems in the Kepler field with the Green Bank Telescope at 1.15-1.73 GHz
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.04057

Reference star differential imaging of close-in companions and circumstellar disks with the NIRC2 vortex coronagraph at W.M. Keck Observatory
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.04090

Interstellar Probes: The Benefits to Astronomy & Astrophysics
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.04422

January 14, 2019 updates

X-ray, UV, Optical Irradiances and Age of Barnard’s Star’s new Super-earth Planet:—“Can Life Find a Way” on such cold Planet?
http://clusty.ast.villanova.edu/gallery/Barnard_Poster_AAS2019.pdf

First Stop on the Interstellar Journey: The Solar Gravity Lens Focus
http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2018.71.275

Plasma Dynamics in Firefly’s Z-pinch Fusion Engine
http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2018.71.288

Gram-Scale Nano-Spacecraft Entry into Star Systems
http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2018.71.294

The Interstellar Fusion Fuel Resource Base of Our Solar System
http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2018.71.298

Tests of Fundamental Physics in Interstellar Flight
http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2018.71.306