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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April 12, 2019 updates

The NASA Twins Study: A multidimensional analysis of a year-long human spaceflight
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/364/6436/eaau8650

Simulations of Water Vapor and Clouds on Rapidly Rotating and Tidally Locked Planets: A 3D Model Intercomparison
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab09f1

On degeneracies in retrievals of exoplanetary transmission spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.05356

The Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey: Giant Planet and Brown Dwarf Demographics From 10-100 AU
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.05358

First Light of Engineered Diffusers at the Nordic Optical Telescope Reveal Time Variability in the Optical Eclipse Depth of WASP-12b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.05362

Survival Rates of Planets in Open Clusters: the Pleiades, Hyades, and Praesepe clusters
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.08598

April 11, 2019 updates

Solar System Escape Mission with Solar Sail Spacecraft within a Framework of post-Newtonian Gravitational Theory
http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2018.71.438

Do Alien Industrial Civilisations Exist?
http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2018.71.443

Heat Transfer in Fusion Starship Radiation Shielding Systems
http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2018.71.450

Stellar encounters with Giant Molecular Clouds
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz813/5437685

Precision characterization of the TESS CCD detectors: Quantum efficiency, charge blooming and undershoot effects
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576518304429

Global climate by Rossby number in the Solar system planets
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1384107619300806

Equatorial Kelvin-like waves on slowly rotating and/or small-sized spheres: Application to Venus and Titan
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103518304809

The binary mass ratios of circumbinary planet hosts
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.04832

Astro 2020 Science White Paper: Evolved Planetary Systems around White Dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.04839

Transiting Planets near the Snow Line from Kepler. I. Catalog
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.04980

Stars and exoplanets in Stokes IQUV: a decadal opportunity for HIRES at the ELT
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.05075

April 9, 2019 updates

Lessons from early Earth: UV surface radiation should not limit the habitability of active M star systems
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/485/4/5598/5426502

Exoplanetary Atmospheres: Key Insights, Challenges and Prospects
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.03190

Orbital relaxation and excitation of planets tidally interacting with white dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.03195

The Impact of Stellar Surface Magnetoconvection and Oscillations on the Detection of Temperate, Earth-Mass Planets Around Sun-Like Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.03200

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs: Different roads to radii and masses of the target stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.03231

Exoplanet atmospheres with GIANO II. Detection of molecular absorption in the dayside spectrum of HD 102195b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.04170

April 8, 2019 updates

Efficient Searches for Galactic Stream Interstellar Asteroids
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330765570_Efficient_Searches_for_Galactic_Stream_Interstellar_Asteroids

A Maximum Subsurface Biomass on Mars from Untapped Free Energy: CO and H2 as Potential Antibiosignatures
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2018.1835

Detectability of atmospheric features of Earth-like planets in the habitable zone around M dwarfs
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2019/04/aa34504-18/aa34504-18.html

K 2 Ultracool Dwarfs Survey. V. High superflare rates on rapidly rotating late-M dwarfs
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz886/5427921

Revisiting the Biological Ramifications of Variations in Earth’s Magnetic Field
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab12eb

How stars and planets interact: A look through the high‐energy window
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.201913619

Exocometary Science
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.02715

Identifying Exoplanets with Deep Learning III: Automated Triage and Vetting of TESS Candidates
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.02726

MASCARA-4 b/bRing-1b – A retrograde hot Jupiter around the bright A3V star HD 85628
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.02733