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 1, 2019 updates

Interstellar Probe: Highway to the stars
https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPSC-DPS2019/EPSC-DPS2019-1093-1.pdf

A Conceptual Framework for Breakthrough Technologies
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/proceedings-of-the-international-conference-on-engineering-design/article/conceptual-framework-for-breakthrough-technologies/FAF1912C994C1ED73E834685BC94DFDC

Preliminary Calculations of Particle Bombardment Physics due to Dust and Charged Particles in the Interstellar Medium on the Breakthrough Initiatives Project Starshot Gram-Scale Interstellar Probe
https://www.interstellarresearchcentre.com/s/StarshotParticleBombardmentkflongb.pdf

Measuring Dust Impact Effects in the Interstellar Mediumfor the 1000 AU Interstellar Probe Mission
https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPSC-DPS2019/EPSC-DPS2019-1991-1.pdf

The Hubble Space Telescope PanCET Program: Exospheric Mg ii and Fe ii in the Near-ultraviolet Transmission Spectrum of WASP-121b Using Jitter Decorrelation
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab2986

Analyzing Atmospheric Temperature Profiles and Spectra of M dwarf Rocky Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.13135

Identifying Candidate Atmospheres on Rocky M dwarf Planets via Eclipse Photometry
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.13138

A Scaling Theory for Atmospheric Heat Redistribution on Rocky Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.13145

Identifying Atmospheres on Rocky Exoplanets Through Inferred High Albedo
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.13150

Hot Hydrogen Climates near the inner edge of the Habitable Zone
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.13169

The Habitability of GJ 357 d : Possible Climates and Observability
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.13215

July 31, 2019 updates

Planetary system around the nearby M dwarf GJ 357 including a transiting, hot, Earth-sized planet optimal for atmospheric characterization
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.12818

Characterizing K2 Candidate Planetary Systems Orbiting Low-mass Stars. IV. Updated Properties for 86 Cool Dwarfs Observed during Campaigns 1–17
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab2895

Properties of the Interstellar Medium along Sight Lines to Nearby Planet-hosting Stars
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab1f6d

Photosynthesis on Exoplanets and Exomoons from Reflected Light
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.12576

Flaring activity of Proxima Centauri from TESS observations: quasi-periodic oscillations during flare decay and inferences on the habitability of Proxima b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.12580

Effects of primitive photosynthesis on Earth’s early climate system
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.12995

Anoxygenic photosynthesis and the delayed oxygenation of Earth’s atmosphere
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.13001

Dealing With δ-Scuti Variables: Transit Light Curve Analysis of Planets Orbiting Rapidly-Rotating, Seismically Active A/F Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.01029

July 29, 2019 updates

Coronagraphic phase diversity through residual turbulence: performance study and experimental validation
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz1986/5538847

A Possible Scenario for the Random Transiter EPIC 249706694/HD 139139
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab346a

Calibration of quasi-static aberrations in exoplanet direct-imaging instruments with a Zernike phase-mask sensor. III. On-sky validation in VLT/SPHERE
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.11241

OGLE-2015-BLG-1649Lb: A gas giant planet around a low-mass dwarf
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.11536

WASP-South hot Jupiters: WASP-178b, WASP-184b, WASP-185b & WASP-192b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.11667

July 26, 2019 updates

Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometry: Applications for the In Situ Measurement of Nonvolatile Organics at Ocean Worlds
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2018.1961

NASA’s TESS Mission Completes First Year of Survey, Turns to Northern Sky
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/nasa-s-tess-mission-completes-first-year-of-survey-turns-to-northern-sky

Atmospheric characterization of the ultra-hot Jupiter MASCARA-2b/KELT-20b – Detection of CaII, FeII, NaI, and the Balmer series of H (Hα, Hβ, and Hγ) with high-dispersion transit spectroscopy
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2019/08/aa35623-19/aa35623-19.html

The runaway greenhouse radius inflation effect – An observational diagnostic to probe water on Earth-sized planets and test the habitable zone concept
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2019/08/aa35585-19/aa35585-19.html

K2-146: Discovery of Planet c, Precise Masses from Transit Timing, and Observed Precession
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.10620

Setting the Stage for the Planet Formation Imager
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.10663

Detection of Hundreds of New Planet Candidates and Eclipsing Binaries in K2 Campaigns 0-8
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.10806

The Bio-habitable Zone and atmospheric properties for Planets of Red Dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.11098

Classifying Exoplanet Candidates with Convolutional Neural Networks: Application to the Next Generation Transit Survey
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.11109

It takes two planets in resonance to tango around K2-146
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.11141