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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June 21, 2019 Updates

Directly testing gravity with Proxima Centauri
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.08264

Survivability of radio-loud planetary cores orbiting white dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.08273

Fast Computational Convolution Methods For Extended Source Effects In Microlensing Lightcurves
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.08378

Transit modelling of selected Kepler systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.08610

The SPECULOOS telescopes and searching for red worlds in the northern skies
https://phys.org/news/2019-06-speculoos-telescopes-red-worlds-northern.html

Search for Nearby Earth Analogs. I. 15 Planet Candidates Found in PFS Data
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/ab1b16

Observing Isotopologue Bands in Terrestrial Exoplanet Atmospheres with the James Webb Space Telescope: Implications for Identifying Past Atmospheric and Ocean Loss
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab2385

Spitzer Parallax of OGLE-2018-BLG-0596: A Low-mass-ratio Planet around an M Dwarf
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab237f

June 20, 2019 updates

Toward Autonomous Navigation of Spacecraft on the Observed Periodic Radiation of Pulsars
http://matisaac.org/images/PaperPDF/AdAp_100126_2019052717111204142.pdf

Towards a General Definition of Life
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11084-019-09578-5

Formation Design of Distributed Telescopes in Earth Orbit for Astrophysics Applications
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.A34420

Retrieval of the Fluid Love Number k 2 in Exoplanetary Transit Curves
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab2048

The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: Observations of 1327 Nearby Stars over 1.10-3.45 GHz
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.07750

Understanding the atmospheric properties and chemical composition of the ultra-hot Jupiter HAT-P-7b: I. Cloud and chemistry mapping
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.08127

A Recommendation Algorithm to Predict Giant Exoplanet Host Stars Using Stellar Elemental Abundances
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.12144

June 19, 2019 updates

Breakthrough Listen Publishes Most Comprehensive and Sensitive Search for Radio Technosignatures Ever Performed
https://breakthroughinitiatives.org/news/25

Breakthrough Listen Open Data Archive
http://seti.berkeley.edu/opendata

The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: Public Data, Formats, Reduction and Archiving
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.07391

Orbital Stability and Precession Effects in the Kepler-89 System
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.07193

Comparative terrestrial atmospheric circulation regimes in simplified global circulation models: I. from cyclostrophic super-rotation to geostrophic turbulence
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.07561

Comparative terrestrial atmospheric circulation regimes in simplified global circulation models: II. energy budgets and spectral transfers
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.07595

Signatures of Obliquity in Thermal Phase Curves of Hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.07615

On the Habitability of Teegarden’s Star planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.07704

June 18, 2019 updates

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Two temperate Earth-mass planet candidates around Teegarden’s Star
https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201935460

A pair of temperate sub-Neptunes transiting the star EPIC 212737443
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz1641/5519234

Termination of an inward migration of a gap-opening planet triggered by dust feedback
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.06338

Empirical Predictions for the Period Distribution of Planets to be Discovered by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.06795

Impact of Stellar Superflares on Planetary Habitability
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.06797

Can we detect aurora in exoplanets orbiting M dwarfs?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.07089

June 17, 2019 updates

Near-term interstellar probe: First step
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576519303650

How Flares regulate Atmospheric Losses from the TRAPPIST-1 planets
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019AAS…23411302D/abstract

Starshade Would Take Formation Flying to Extremes
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/starshade-would-take-formation-flying-to-extremes

How NASA’s Spitzer Has Stayed Alive for So Long
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-nasas-spitzer-has-stayed-alive-for-so-long

On the enlargement of habitable zones around binary stars in hostile environments
https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnrasl/slz082/5511792

Complex macroscale structures formed by the shock processing of amino acids and nucleobases — Implications to the Origins of life
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.05958

An emission spectrum for WASP-121b measured across the 0.8-1.1 micron wavelength range using the Hubble Space Telescope
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.06326