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 19, 2019 updates

Project Lyra: Catching 1I/’Oumuamua – Mission Opportunities After 2024
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04935

HADES RV program with HARPS-N at the TNG IX. A super-Earth around the M dwarf Gl 686
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2019/02/aa34868-18/aa34868-18.html

The SOPHIE search for northern extrasolar planets. XIV. A temperate (Teq∼300 K) super-earth around the nearby star Gliese 411
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.06004

The SOPHIE search for northern extrasolar planets XV. A Warm Neptune around the M-dwarf Gl378
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.05998

An alternative interpretation of the exomoon candidate signal in the combined Kepler and Hubble data of Kepler-1625
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.06018

February 18, 2019 updates

Introduction to the SETI program, criticalities and future strategies
http://sait.oats.inaf.it/MSAIt890318/PDF/2018MmSAI..89..316M.pdf

Water MASER emission: a powerful diagnostic tool for the search of extra-terrestrial life
http://sait.oats.inaf.it/MSAIt890318/PDF/2018MmSAI..89..413C.pdf

Cargoism and Scientific Justification in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/zygo.12480

Circular spectropolarimetric sensing of vegetation in the field; possibilities for the remote detection of extraterrestrial life
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.05859

A theoretical model for realistic local climates
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.05598

February 15, 2019 updates

K2-291b: A Rocky Super-Earth in a 2.2 day Orbit
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aafe83

Dust unveils the formation of a mini-Neptune planet in a protoplanetary ring
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.05143

The Origin of Kepler-419b: A Path to Tidal Migration Via Four-body Secular Interactions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.05144

Aggregate Hazes in Exoplanet Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.05231

A Proposed Method for a Photon-Counting Laser Coherence Detection System to Complement Optical SETI
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.05371

February 13, 2019 updates

K2-290: a warm Jupiter and a mini-Neptune in a triple-star system
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.03716

The DECam Minute Cadence Survey II: 49 Variables but No Planetary Transits of a White Dwarf
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04075

SPHERE: the exoplanet imager for the Very Large Telescope
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04080

Stellar Activity Effects on Moist Habitable Terrestrial Atmospheres Around M dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04086

ISPY – the NaCo Imaging Survey for Planets around Young stars: A young companion candidate embedded in the R CrA cloud
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04092

Observing the gas component of circumplanetary disks around wide-orbit planet-mass companions in the (sub)mm regime
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04096

Could 1I/’Oumuamua be an icy fractal aggregate ejected from a protoplanetary disk? A fluffy radiation-pressure-driven scenario
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04100

HARPS-N Solar Radial-Velocity Variations Are Dominated By Large, Bright Magnetic Regions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04184

Dusty outflows in planetary atmospheres: Understanding “super-puffs” and transmission spectra of sub-Neptunes
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04188

Heavy metal rules. I. Exoplanet incidence and metallicity
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04493

The Fermi Paradox and the Aurora Effect: Exo-civilization Settlement, Expansion and Steady States
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04450