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 3, 2020 updates

A Machian wave effect in conformal, scalar–tensor gravitational theory
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10714-019-2547-9

Inertia and propulsion in general relativity: a reply to rodal
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10714-019-2654-7

Scaling K2. I. Revised Parameters for 222,088 K2 Stars and a K2 Planet Radius Valley at 1.9 R⊕
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.11511

Scaling K2. II. Assembly of a Fully Automated C5 Planet Candidate Catalog Using EDI-Vetter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.11515

Interstellar comet 2I/Borisov as seen by MUSE: C2, NH2 and red CN detections
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.11605

January 31, 2020 updates

MOVES III. Simultaneous X-ray and ultraviolet observations unveiling the variable environment of the hot Jupiter HD 189733b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.11048

TraMoS V. Updated ephemeris and multi-epoch monitoring of the hot Jupiters WASP-18Ab, WASP-19b, and WASP-77Ab
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.11112

Implications of three-dimensional chemical transport in hot Jupiter atmospheres: results from a consistently coupled chemistry-radiation-hydrodynamics model
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.11444

January 30, 2020 updates

Cheops opens its eye to the sky
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Cheops/Cheops_opens_its_eye_to_the_sky

KIDSpec: An MKID-Based Medium-Resolution, Integral Field Spectrograph
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10909-020-02347-z

Starshade formation flying I: optical sensing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.10575

Detection of the phase curve and occultation of WASP-100b with TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.10580

Dangerous stellar encounters with an Earth-like planet in the Milky Way galaxy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.10595

Radial velocity constraints on the long-period transiting planet Kepler-1625 b with CARMENES
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.10867

Habitable zones around almost extremely spinning black holes (black sun revisited)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.10991

January 29, 2020 updates

GAO warns of more JWST delays
https://spacenews.com/gao-warns-of-more-jwst-delays/

NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe Mission Enters Design Phase
https://www.swri.org/press-release/imap-codice-solar-wind-particle-acceleration

Does artificial intelligence dream of non-terrestrial techno-signatures?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S009457651931392X

Red Dots: A temperate 1.5 Earth-mass planet candidate in a compact multi-terrestrial planet system around GJ 1061
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa248/5717319

MOVES III. Simultaneous X-ray and ultraviolet observations unveiling the variable environment of the hot Jupiter HD 189733b
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa256/5717312

Seismicity on tidally active solid-surface worlds
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103518307243

Technological Challenges in Low-mass Interstellar Probe Communication
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.09987

January 28, 2020 updates

Quantifying the Bayesian Evidence for a Planet in Radial Velocity Data
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab5190

The Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey: Dynamical Mass of the Exoplanet β Pictoris b from Combined Direct Imaging and Astrometry
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab5b92

Ondřejov Echelle Spectrograph, Ground Based Support Facility for Exoplanet Missions
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ab6752

A hot terrestrial planet orbiting the bright M dwarf L 168-9 unveiled by TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.09175

Atmosphere Origins for Exoplanet Sub-Neptunes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.09269

On the aspect ratio of Oumuamua: less elongated shape for irregular surface properties
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.09283

Reviewing METI: A Critical Analysis of the Arguments
https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.05663

Virtual European Solar & Planetary Access (VESPA): a Planetary Science Virtual Observatory cornerstone
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.06521