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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February 26, 2019 updates

Constraining the Thermal Properties of Planetary Surfaces using Machine Learning: Application to Airless Bodies
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.08631

Formation of planetary systems by pebble accretion and migration: How the radial pebble flux determines a terrestrial-planet or super-Earth growth mode
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.08694

Formation of planetary systems by pebble accretion and migration: Growth of gas giants
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.08771

Formation of planetary systems by pebble accretion and migration: Hot super-Earth systems from breaking compact resonant chains
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.08772

Mean Motion Resonances With Nearby Moons: An Unlikely Origin For The Gaps Observed In The Ring Around The Exoplanet J1407b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.09285

Planet seeding through gas-assisted capture of interstellar objects
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.09716

February 25, 2019 updates

Transit modelling of selected Kepler systems
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10509-019-3525-0

Exoplanet Terra Incognita
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-62849-3_20

Exoplanetary Biosignatures for Astrobiology
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-96175-0_11

Space Test Program-Houston 6-X-Ray Communication (STP-H6-XCOM) – 01.16.19
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/3002.html

Shallow-water Magnetohydrodynamics for Westward Hotspots on Hot Jupiters
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab05dd

No Detection of Cold Dust around the Potential Exocomet Host phgr Leo
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab082b

Directed Energy Interception of Satellites
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0273117719301176

Rapid Classification of TESS Planet Candidates with Convolutional Neural Networks
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.08544

Asteroseismology of the Hyades red giant and planet host epsilon Tauri
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.06187

February 24, 2019 updates

This is a special edition of the interstellar updates, due to the American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2018 abstracts just having come to our attention.

Interstellar Probe: A New Mission for a New Decade
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018AGUFMSH32C..01M

Interstellar Probe: The Compelling Science Case, Strawman Payload and Resources
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018AGUFMSH33C3660B

Ion and Neutral Gas Mass Spectrometer Instrument for the Future NASA Interstellar Probe Mission
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018AGUFMSH33C3670P

The Case for a Radio and Plasma Wave Receiver on an Interstellar Probe
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018AGUFMSH33C3665K

Interstellar Express: A New Chinese Space Mission to Explore the Outer Heliosphere
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018AGUFMSH32C..02W

Overview of the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) Mission
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018AGUFMSH12B..01M

Surveying the edge of our solar system and the interstellar interaction with IMAP
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018AGUFMSH12B..03S

Precise Measurement of the Interstellar Flow with IMAP, Informed by IBEX Observations
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018AGUFMSH13C2964M

Critical Subsystem Analysis for a 1000 AU Interstellar Pathfinder Mission
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018AGUFMSH33C3655B

Outer Boundary Explorations: Using New Space Launch Vehicles To Explore The Edge Of The Solar System and Beyond
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018AGUFMSA21A3144P

Enabling a Solar System Escape Mission via The NASA Space Launch System
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018AGUFMSH32C..03S

The Habitable Zone: Intended Applications, Controversial Misapplications, and Needed Improvements
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018AGUFM.P31C3734D

February 22, 2019 updates

Diving into Exoplanets: Are Water Seas the Most Common?
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2017.1720

Hachimoji DNA and RNA: A genetic system with eight building blocks
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/363/6429/884

Ultra-Stable Environment Control for the NEID Spectrometer: Design and Performance Demonstration
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.07729

Low albedos of hot to ultra-hot Jupiters in the optical to near-infrared transition regime
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.07944

Comparative analysis of the influence of Sgr A* and nearby active galactic nuclei on the mass loss of known exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.07950

Hydrogen Cyanide in Nitrogen-Rich Atmospheres of Rocky Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.08022

A Fast Approximate Approach to Microlensing Survey Analysis
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.08092

Introduction: Detectability of Future Earth
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.08035