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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May 30, 2018 updates

Radial migration of gap-opening planets in protoplanetary disks. I. The case of a single planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.11101

Zodiacal Exoplanets in Time (ZEIT) VII: A Temperate Candidate Super-Earth in the Hyades Cluster
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.11117

Towards Consistent Modeling of Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics in Exoplanets: Validation and Generalization of Chemical Relaxation Method
https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.08492

Extremophile life-form survey on rocky exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.06341

May 29, 2018 updates

The Anthropocene Generalized: Evolution of Exo-Civilizations and Their Planetary Feedback
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/ast.2017.1671

First light for SPIRou, exoplanet hunter
http://www2.cnrs.fr/en/3123.htm

Imagining Outer Space: European Astroculture in the Twentieth Century
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057%2F978-1-349-95339-4

Measuring Eta_Earth: Characterization of Terrestrial Planetary Systems with Kepler, HARPS-N, and Gaia
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/106562_en.html

A Kinematical Detection of Two Jupiter Mass Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.10290

Buildup of Abiotic Oxygen and Ozone in Moist Atmospheres of Temperate Terrestrial Exoplanets and its Impact on the Spectral Fingerprint in Transit Observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.10332

Migration-driven diversity of super-Earth compositions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.10345

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

Photochemical Haze Formation in the Atmospheres of super-Earths and mini-Neptunes
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.10488

Non-Detection of a Helium Exosphere for the Hot Jupiter WASP-12b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.10671

Planet Formation in Highly Inclined Binary Systems. II. Orbital Alignment or Anti-alignment and Planet Growth Boost in Intermediate Separation Binaries
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.10993

May 28, 2018 updates

Dipole Drive for Space Propulsion
http://jbis.org.uk/paper.php?p=2017.70.442

Beam-Driven Sails and Divergence of Neutral Particle Beams
http://jbis.org.uk/paper.php?p=2017.70.449

Star Lifting: An Application for Alien Megastructures
http://jbis.org.uk/paper.php?p=2017.70.458

KMT-2016-BLG-1820 and KMT-2016-BLG-2142: Two Microlensing Binaries Composed of Planetary-mass Companions and Very-Low-Mass Primaries
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.09983

The science case for POLLUX, a high-resolution UV spectropolarimeter onboard LUVOIR
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.10021

Theory and simulation of spectral line broadening by exoplanetary atmospheric haze
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.10171

May 24, 2018 updates

Overload control of artificial gravity facility using spinning tether system for high eccentricity transfer orbits
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576517313681

Habitability Classification of Exoplanets: A Machine Learning Insight
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.08810

Phantom Inflated Planets in Occurrence Rate Based Samples
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.08818

Kepler-503b: An Object at the Hydrogen Burning Mass Limit Orbiting a Subgiant Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.08820

Stellar Companions of Exoplanet Host Stars in K2
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.08844

A Novel Exoplanetary Habitability Score via Particle Swarm Optimization of CES Production Functions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.08858

KMT-2016-BLG-1107: A New Hollywood-Planet Close/Wide Degeneracy
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.08888

Planetary Spectrum Generator: an accurate online radiative transfer suite for atmospheres, comets, small bodies and exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.02008