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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November 27, 2018 updates

Six Strange Facts About `Oumuamua
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.08832

NASA’s Webb Takes a Carriage Ride to Testing Chambers
https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2018/nasas-webb-takes-a-carriage-ride-to-testing-chambers

A Zooniverse Project to Classify Periodic Variable Stars from SuperWASP
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/aaf291

APPHi: An automated photometry pipeline for high cadence, large volume data
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213133718300465

Observational Signatures of Planets in Protoplanetary Disks: Planet-Induced Line Broadening in Gaps
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.09629

Identifying Interstellar Objects Trapped in the Solar System through Their Orbital Parameters
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.09632

Archival VLT/NaCo multiplicity investigation of exoplanet host stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.09666

High-Resolution ALMA Observations of HD100546: Asymmetric Circumstellar Ring, and Circumplanetary Disk Upper Limits
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.10365

November 26, 2018 updates

Life in the Universe: Expectations and Constraints
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-97658-7

Exoplanet Mission Launch Slot Announced
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Exoplanet_mission_launch_slot_announced

Sixty Validated Planets from K2 Campaigns 5–8
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aae778

Extreme-ultraviolet Radiation from A-stars: Implications for Ultra-hot Jupiters
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aaf0a5

Multiple water band detections in the CARMENES near-infrared transmission spectrum of HD 189733 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.08901

Stellar and substellar companions of nearby stars from Gaia DR2 – Binarity from proper motion anomaly of stars within 50 pc
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.08902

Search for Exoplanetary Transits in the Galactic Bulge
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.09174

Interior structure of Mars and other rock-and-iron planetary bodies
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.09198

Tidal dissipation in deep oceanic shells: from telluric planets to icy satellites
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.09211

Consequences of semidiurnal thermal tides on hot Jupiters zonal mean flows
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.09214

Morphology of Hydrodynamic Winds: A Study of Planetary Winds in Stellar Environments
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.09276

Photoevaporative Flows From Exoplanet Atmospheres: A 3-D Radiative Hydrodynamic Parameter Study
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.09314

Spatial resonant periodic orbits in the restricted three-body problem
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.09442

The Scattered Disc of HR 8799
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.09470

Exocomets in the 47 UMa System: Theoretical Simulations including Water Transport
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.09579

SOPHIE velocimetry of Kepler transit candidates planets XIX. The transiting temperate giant planet KOI-3680b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.09580

Four-dimensional Traversable Wormholes and Bouncing Cosmologies in Vacuum
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.03497

A second terrestrial planet orbiting the nearby M dwarf LHS 1140
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.00485

November 22, 2018 updates

TESS’s first planet: A super-Earth transiting the naked-eye star π Mensae
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2018/11/aa34289-18/aa34289-18.html

Climate sensitivity to ozone and its relevance on the habitability of Earth-like planets
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103517307820

A Maximum Subsurface Biomass on Mars from Untapped Free Energy: CO and H2 as Potential Antibiosignatures
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.08501

Survival Rates of Planets in Open Clusters: the Pleiades, Hyades, and Praesepe clusters
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.08598

DE CVn: an eclipsing post-common envelope binary with a circumbinary disk and a giant planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.08625