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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May 24, 2019 updates

Exoplanet has rare earths
https://academic.oup.com/astrogeo/article-abstract/60/3/3.5/5497883

TESS spots first Earth-size exoplanet
https://academic.oup.com/astrogeo/article-abstract/60/3/3.7/5497886

ARIEL seeks AI help for exoplanets
https://academic.oup.com/astrogeo/article-abstract/60/3/3.9/5497890

No Evidence for Lunar Transit in New Analysis of Hubble Space Telescope Observations of the Kepler-1625 System
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab20c8

Enhanced Habitability on High Obliquity Bodies near the Outer Edge of the Habitable Zone of Sun-like Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.09398

May 23, 2019 updates

Simulated Phase-dependent Spectra of Terrestrial Aquaplanets in M Dwarf Systems
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab184a

Water delivery to the TRAPPIST-1 planets
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz1412/5497935

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs Detection of a mini-Neptune around LSPM J2116+0234 and refinement of orbital parameters of a super-Earth around GJ 686 (BD+18 3421)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.09075

The Effect of 3D Transport-Induced Disequilibrium Carbon Chemistry on the Atmospheric Structure and Phase Curves and Emission Spectra of Hot Jupiter HD 189733b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.02011

The Exoplanet Population Observation Simulator. II – Population Synthesis in the Era of Kepler
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.08804

May 21, 2019 updates

The Transiting Multi-planet System HD15337: Two Nearly Equal-mass Planets Straddling the Radius Gap
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332917583

Variability in the Atmosphere of the Hot Jupiter Kepler-76b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.07781

Exoplanetary Monte Carlo Radiative Transfer with Correlated-k I. Benchmarking Transit and Emission Observables
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.08132

OGLE-2018-BLG-0532Lb: Cold Neptune With Possible Jovian Sibling
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.08148

May 20, 2019 updates

A Neutrino Beacon
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.05184

The SpaceDrive project – Thrust balance development and new measurements of the Mach-Effect and EMDrive Thrusters
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009457651832071X

Stellar Flybys Interrupting Planet-Planet Scattering Generates Oort Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.07044

The Need for Laboratory Measurements and Ab Initio Studies to Aid Understanding of Exoplanetary Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.07064

The Detectability and Characterization of the TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanet Atmospheres with JWST
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.07070

Does the evolution of complex life depend on the stellar spectral energy distribution?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.07343

K2-295 b and K2-237 b: two transiting hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.05865