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.

You can now search our database of interstellar updates and find items of interest to you.

December 3, 2018 updates

The Delivery of Water to Protoplanets, Planets and Satellites
https://www.springer.com/us/book/9789402416275

Handbook of Exoplanets
https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319553320

Review of Solar Magnetic Sailing Configurations for Space Travel
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42423-018-0022-4

Single conjugate adaptive optics for the ELT instrument METIS
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10686-018-9609-y

TESS Discovery of a Transiting Super-Earth in the pi Mensae System
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aaef91

Developing predictive models: Individual and group breakdowns in long-term space travel
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576517319094

The Little Dippers: Transits of Star-grazing Exocomets?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.12414

Two Jupiter-Mass Planets Discovered by the KMTNet Survey in 2017
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.12505

Planetary Systems in Star Clusters: the dynamical evolution and survival
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.12660

Migrating super-Earths in low viscosity discs: unveiling the roles of feedback, vortices and laminar accretion flows
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.12841

November 29, 2018 updates

Philanthropic Space Science: The Breakthrough Initiatives
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/space.2018.0027

SOPHIE velocimetry of Kepler transit candidates. XIX. The new transiting temperate giant planet KOI-3680b
https://www.aanda.org/component/article?access=doi&doi=10.1051/0004-6361/201834333

Using predictive Bayesian Monte Carlo- Markov Chain methods to provide a probablistic solution for the Drake equation
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576518314000

SOFIA – HIRMES: Looking forward to the HIgh-Resolution Mid-infrarEd Spectrometer
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.11313

Turbulent Vertical Mixing in Hot Exoplanet Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.11725

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