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 9, 2019 updates

The Transiting Multi-planet System HD15337: Two Nearly Equal-mass Planets Straddling the Radius Gap
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab17d9

Habitable Megastructures Versus Habitable Planets
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332751346_Astrobiology_Newsletter_Vol_12_No_2

Future of Space Travel Through VARIES and VASIMR
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/FUTURE-OF-SPACE-TRAVEL-THROUGH-VARIES-AND-VASIMR-Salim-SarathRajN./a468da861ab604f59ecc198d135088bedc1837e8

Heliogyro Solar Sail Structural Dynamics and Stability
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.G003758

Retrieval of the fluid Love number k2 in exoplanetary transit curves
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.03171

Persistence of Technosignatures: A Comment on Lingam and Loeb
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.03146

Effect of interstellar objects on metallicity of low-mass first stars formed in a cosmological model
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.02974

Photochemical hazes in sub-Neptunian atmospheres with focus on GJ 1214 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.02976

May 8, 2019 updates

Machine Learning Pipeline for Exoplanet Classification
https://scholar.smu.edu/datasciencereview/vol2/iss1/9/

Beamed Launch Propulsion
https://www.intechopen.com/online-first/beamed-launch-propulsion

Synergies between space telescopes in the photometric characterization of the atmospheres of Hot Jupiters
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz1247/5487083

Extrasolar space exploration by a solar sail accelerated via thermal desorption of coating
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0273117718309141

Detectability of atmospheric features of Earth-like planets in the habitable zone around M dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.02560

NGTS-5b: a highly inflated planet offering insights into the sub-Jovian desert
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.02593

May 6, 2019 updates

Direct Fusion Drive for Interstellar Exploration
http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2019.72.37

Intermediate Beamers for Starshot: Probes to the Sun’s Inner Gravity Focus
http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2019.72.51

Reality, The Breakthrough Initiatives and Prospects for Colonization of Space
http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2019.72.56

A Gravitational Wave Transmitter
http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2019.72.62

Accounting for Multiplicity in Calculating Eta Earth
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.01032

MOA-bin-29b : A Microlensing Gas Giant Planet Orbiting a Low-mass Host Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.01239

Outgassing As Trigger of 1I/`Oumuamua’s Nongravitational Acceleration: Could This Hypothesis Work at All?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.00935