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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July 25, 2019 updates

Obliquity Evolution of the Potentially Habitable Exoplanet Kepler-62f
https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.08052

The GAPS Programme with HARPS-N at TNG XIX. Atmospheric Rossiter-McLaughlin effect and improved parameters of KELT-9b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.10078

Revisiting Kepler-444 Part I. Seismic modelling and inversions of stellar structure
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.10315

Dynamical evolution of close-in super-earths tidally interacting with its host star near spin-orbit resonances. The case of Kepler-21 system
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.10575

July 24, 2019 updates

Deciphering Biosignatures in Planetary Contexts
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2018.1903

KELT-23Ab: A Hot Jupiter Transiting a Near-solar Twin Close to the TESS and JWST Continuous Viewing Zones
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab24c7

EXOFASTv2: A public, generalized, publication-quality exoplanet modeling code
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.09480

High-Contrast Testbeds for Future Space-Based Direct Imaging Exoplanet Missions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.09508

The Future of Exoplanet Direct Detection
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.09561

A Realistic Roadmap to Formation Flying Space Interferometry
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.09583

Multicolour photometry for exoplanet candidate validation
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.09776

Genetic Algorithms for Starshade Retargeting in Space-Based Telescopes
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.09789

Orbital Evolution of a Circumbinary Planet in a Gaseous Disk
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.09793

Habitability and Spectroscopic Observability of Warm M-dwarf Exoplanets Evaluated with a 3D Chemistry-Climate Model
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.10048

July 22, 2019 updates

Magnetic field strengths of hot Jupiters from signals of star–planet interactions
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-019-0840-x

Evolution of the obliquity of an exoplanet: a non-resonant case
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103518303634

Four Small Planets Buried in K2 Systems: What Can We Learn for TESS?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.08244

Transit timing variations in the WASP-4 planetary system
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.08269

Astro2020 Project White Paper: PolyOculus — Low-cost Spectroscopy for the Community
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.08273

July 19, 2019 updates

Phytoclimatic mapping of exoplanets
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/phytoclimatic-mapping-of-exoplanets/68C46D4C29719FC6E7602B60DCD561FF

How much of the Solar System should we leave as wilderness?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576517318507

Enabling the next generation of scientific discoveries by embracing photonic technologies
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.07742

Architectures of Exoplanetary Systems. I: A Clustered Forward Model for Exoplanetary Systems around Kepler’s FGK Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.07773

The Intrinsic Temperature and Radiative-Convective Boundary Depth in the Atmospheres of Hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.07777

The Social Sciences Interdisciplinarity for Astronomy and Astrophysics — Lessons from the History of NASA and Related Fields
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.07800

Technosignatures in the Thermal Infrared
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.07829

Technosignatures in Transit
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.07830

Searches for Technosignatures in Astronomy and Astrophysics
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.07831

Searches for Technosignatures: The State of the Profession
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.07832

The multiplicity distribution of Kepler’s exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.08148