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 20, 2018 updates

Handbook of Exoplanets
https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-3-319-55333-7

AAVSO to archive amateur astronomer exoplanet data
https://www.aavso.org/exoplanet-data

Welcome to the AAVSO Exoplanet Section
https://www.aavso.org/exoplanet-section

Data calibration for the MASCARA and bRing instruments
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2018/11/aa34070-18/aa34070-18.html

Search for young transiting exoplanets within YETI project
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.06993

Direct imaging of molten protoplanets in nearby young stellar associations
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.07411

Machine-learning Approaches to Exoplanet Transit Detection and Candidate Validation in Wide-field Ground-based Surveys
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.07754

The GAPS Programme with HARPS-N at TNG XVIII. Two new giant planets around the metal-poor stars HD 220197 and HD 233832
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.07776

November 19, 2018 updates

Assembling Life: How Can Life Begin on Earth and Other Habitable Planets?
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/assembling-life-9780190646387?cc=us&lang=en&

Orbital outcomes of STIPs and consequences for hot-Jupiter formation and planet diversity
https://open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0373613

The NEW Arecibo Message
http://www.areciboobservatory.org/challenge/

DE CVn: An Eclipsing Post-common Envelope Binary with a Circumbinary Disk and a Giant Planet
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aae64d

Predicted Yield of Transits of Known Radial Velocity Exoplanets from the TESS Primary and Extended Missions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.06550

Space-based infrared interferometry to study exoplanetary atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.04150

Revised Exoplanet Radii and Habitability Using Gaia Data Release 2
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.04533

Novembner 16, 2018 updates

Activity induced variation in spin-orbit angles as derived from Rossiter–McLaughlin measurements
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2018/11/aa33709-18/aa33709-18.html

Grid of upper atmosphere models for 1–40 M⊕ planets: application to CoRoT-7 b and HD 219134 b,c
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2018/11/aa33737-18/aa33737-18.html

On the robustness of analysis techniques for molecular detections using high resolution exoplanet spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.05978

TESS full orbital phase curve of the WASP-18b system
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.06020

Life Before Fermi – Back to the Solar System
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.06313

Evolution of star-planet systems under magnetic braking and tidal interaction
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.06354

Comprehensive analysis of HD 105, a young Solar System analog
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.06440

Re-analysing the dynamical stability of the HD 47366 planetary system
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.06476

The polarization of the planet-hosting WASP-18 system
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.06527

Seismicity on Tidally Active Solid-Surface Worlds
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.06536

Artificial Intelligence for Interstellar Travel
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.06526

November 15, 2018 updates

A key piece in the exoplanet puzzle
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07328-7

A candidate super-Earth planet orbiting near the snow line of Barnard’s star
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.05955

Spitzer Observations of Interstellar Object 1I/’Oumuamua
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aae88f/meta

Diagrams and alien ways of thinking
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0039368118300281

Explicit relations and criteria for eclipses, transits and occultations
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.05484

HD2685 b: A Hot-Jupiter orbiting an early F-type star detected by TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.05518

The TP3-WFS: a new guy in town
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.05607

WASP-190b: Tomographic discovery of a transiting hot Jupiter
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.05742

Prospects for detecting the astrometric signature of Barnard’s Star b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.05920

November 14, 2018 updates

Hubble pinpoints first exomoon discovery
https://academic.oup.com/astrogeo/article-abstract/59/6/6.7/5180329

Data mining predicts stellar eclipse
https://academic.oup.com/astrogeo/article-abstract/59/6/6.5/5180292

Treating Wavefront Measurement Error in Estimation of Non-Common Path Aberration for Direct Imaging of Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.05096

The Exchange of Mass and Angular Momentum in the Impact Event of Ice Giant Planets: Implications for the origin of Uranus
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.05234

WASP-166b: a bloated super-Neptune transiting a V = 9 star
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.05292

Laser Guide Star for Large Segmented-Aperture Space Telescopes, Part I: Implications for Terrestrial Exoplanet Detection and Observatory Stability
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.05309

XUV Radiation from A-stars: Implications for Ultra-hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.05460