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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December 6, 2018 updates

First Light for SPECULOOS
https://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso1839a/

The Orbital Period Prior for Single Transits
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/aaf50c

qpower2 – a fast and accurate algorithm for the computation of exoplanet transit light curves with the power-2 limb-darkening law
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.01606

Shadow Imaging of Transiting Objects
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.01618

Obliquity Tides May Drive WASP-12b’s Rapid Orbital Decay
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.01624

Circumbinary Planets Orbiting the sdB Binary NY Virginis: An Updated Two Planet Solution
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.01726

Evolutionary models of cold and low-mass planets: Cooling curves, magnitudes, and detectability
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.02027

Observability of hydrogen-rich exospheres in Earth-like exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.02145

December 5, 2018 updates

Orbit Orientation of the Planet in τ Boo (HD 120136)
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1990341318040090

These dusty young stars are changing the rules of planet-building
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07591-8

A novel mixture model using the multivariate normal mean–variance mixture of Birnbaum–Saunders distributions and its application to extrasolar planets
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047259X18300599

Solar System Formation in the Context of Extra-Solar Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.01033

Towards new solutions for scientific computing: the case of Julia
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.01219

Inclined Massive Planets in a Protoplanetary Disc: Gap Opening, Disc Breaking, and Observational Signatures
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.01262

Transit analysis of the CoRoT-5, CoRoT-8, CoRoT-12, CoRoT-18, CoRoT-20, and CoRoT-27 systems with combined ground- and space-based photometry
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.01536

December 4, 2018 updates

Detection of Helium in the Atmosphere of the Exo-Neptune HAT-P-11b
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aaf166/meta

Imaging and Characterization of Extrasolar Planets with the Next Generation of Space Telescopes
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/8/12/442

Minimum Viable Human Population with Intelligent Interventions
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329012008_Minimum_Viable_Human_Population_with_Intelligent_Interventions

A Catalog of Spectra, Albedos, and Colors of Solar System Bodies for Exoplanet Comparison
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2017.1763

The Effects of Stellar Companions on the Observed Transiting Exoplanet Radius Distribution
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aaed2d

The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: No Evidence of Claimed Periodic Spectral Modulations in High-resolution Optical Spectra of Nearby Stars
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/aaeae0

Kepler Data Validation II — Transit Model Fitting and Multiple-Planet Search
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.00103

Hot Jupiter accretion: 3D MHD simulations of star-planet wind interaction
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.00665

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