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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September 25, 2018 updates

Handbook of Life Support Systems for Spacecraft and Extraterrestrial Habitats
https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-3-319-09575-2

Toward a new paradigm for Type II migration
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2018/09/aa33539-18/aa33539-18.html

The HADES RV Programme with HARPS-N at TNG VIII. GJ15A: a multiple wide planetary system sculpted by binary interaction
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2018/09/aa32535-17/aa32535-17.html

Gaia plus Hipparcos give exoplanet mass
https://academic.oup.com/astrogeo/article-abstract/59/5/5.6/5099068

Exoplanet with metals in the air
https://academic.oup.com/astrogeo/article-abstract/59/5/5.8/5099054

Detection of planetary signals by reflected light of the host star using the autocorrelation of spectra
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/sty2593/5104421

Application of Adaptive Optics for Illumination Stability in Precision Radial Velocity Measurements in Astronomical Spectroscopy
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/sty2542/5101469

Observability of molecular species in a nitrogen dominated atmosphere for 55 Cancri e
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.08230

First Resolution of Microlensed Images
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.08243

A Bayesian Framework for Exoplanet Direct Detection and Non-Detection
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.08261

Characterizing Vibrations at the Subaru Telescope for the Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme Adaptive Optics instrument
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.08296

SCExAO, an instrument with a dual purpose: perform cutting-edge science and develop new technologies
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.08301

beta Pictoris b post conjunction detection with VLT/SPHERE
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.08354

Properties and occurrence rates of Kepler exoplanet candidates as a function of host star metallicity from the DR25 catalog
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.08385

Kepler-1656b: a Dense Sub-Saturn With an Extreme Eccentricity
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.08436

Dynamical instability and its implications for planetary system architecture
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.08499

The Vegetation Red Edge Biosignature Through Time on Earth and Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.08832

K2-265 b: A Transiting Rocky Super-Earth
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.08869

EPIC 249451861b: an Eccentric Warm Saturn transiting a G-dwarf
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.08879

Plausible home stars of the interstellar object ‘Oumuamua found in Gaia DR2
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.09009

Detecting Water In the atmosphere of HR 8799 c with L-band High Dispersion Spectroscopy Aided By Adaptive Optics
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.09080

Turbulence-driven thermal and kinetic energy fluxes in the atmospheres of hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.07890

Why do protoplanetary disks appear not massive enough to form the known exoplanet population?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.07374

September 24, 2018 updates

Erratum: “Theoretical Transmission Spectra of Exoplanet Atmospheres with Hydrocarbon Haze: Effect of Creation, Growth, and Settling of Haze Particles. I. Model Description and First Results”
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aadaea

Penetrative Convection in Super‐Earth Planets: Consequences of MgSiO3 Postperovskite Dissociation Transition and Implications for Super‐Earth GJ 876 d
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2018JE005633

MOA-2016-BLG-319Lb: Microlensing Planet Subject to Rare Minor-Image Perturbation Degeneracy in Determining Planet Parameter
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.07898

Atmospheric turbulence forecasting with a General Circulation Model for Cerro Paranal
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.08005

High resolution millimetre imaging of the CI Tau protoplanetary disc – a massive ensemble of protoplanets from 0.1 – 100 au
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.08147

Dynamical evolution and stability maps of the Proxima Centauri system
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.08210

Deep imaging search for planets forming in the TW Hya protoplanetary disk with the Keck/NIRC2 vortex coronagraph
https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.07489

Exploring the Origins of Earth’s Nitrogen: Astronomical Observations of Nitrogen-bearing Organics in Protostellar Environments
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.07514

September 21, 2018 updates

Planet–Planet Tides in the TRAPPIST-1 System
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/aae260

Far-Ultraviolet Activity Levels of F, G, K, and M dwarf Exoplanet Host Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.07342

Why do protoplanetary disks appear not massive enough to form the known exoplanet population?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.07374

Observational diagnostics of elongated planet-induced vortices with realistic planet formation timescales
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.07391

Evolved Climates and Observational Discriminants for the TRAPPIST-1 Planetary System
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.07498

TESS’s first planet: a super-Earth transiting the naked-eye star π Mensae
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.07573

A low-density hot Jupiter in a near-aligned, 4.5-day orbit around a V = 10.8, F5V star
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.07709

NGTS-2b: An inflated hot-Jupiter transiting a bright F-dwarf
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.10449

September 20, 2018 updates

Mass, Radius, and Composition of the Transiting Planet 55 Cnc e: Using Interferometry and Correlations—A Quick Update
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/aae1f6

Evaluating the effect of immeasurable parameters of exoplanets on their habitability using latitudinal energy balance model
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.06907

A deep search for planets in the inner 15 au around Vega
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.06941

A Large Ground-Based Observing Campaign of the Disintegrating Planet K2-22b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.06978

PlanetPack3: a radial-velocity and transit analysis tool for exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.07052

TESS Discovery of an ultra-short-period planet around the nearby M dwarf LHS 3844
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.07242

How Much SETI Has Been Done? Finding Needles in the n-Dimensional Cosmic Haystack
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.07252

Triboelectrification of KCl and ZnS particles in approximated exoplanet environments
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.07281

Recommendations from the Ad Hoc Committee on SETI Nomenclature
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.06857

The KELT Follow-Up Network and Transit False Positive Catalog: Pre-vetted False Positives for TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.01869

September 19, 2018 updates

Superflare Ultraviolet Impact on Kepler-96 System: A Glimpse of Habitability When the Ozone Layer First Formed on Earth
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2017.1724

Investigating the young solar system analog HD 95086★ A combined HARPS and SPHERE exploration
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2018/09/aa32077-17/aa32077-17.html

Spin Evolution and Cometary Interpretation of the Interstellar Minor Object 1I/2017 ‘Oumuamua
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.06389

Three Pathways for Observed Resonant Chains
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.06443

Efficient spectroscopy of exoplanets at small angular separations with vortex fiber nulling
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.06483

A grid of upper atmosphere models for 1–40 MEARTH planets: application to CoRoT-7 b and HD219134 b,c
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.06645

Atmospheric mass loss due to giant impacts: the importance of the thermal component for hydrogen-helium envelopes
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.06810