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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October 23, 2019 updates

Simulation of an Antimatter Beam Core Engine for Space Travel
https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation.aspx?paperid=95763

ESA Voyage 2050 white paper — Faint objects in motion: the new frontier of high precision astrometry
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.08028

How Stellar Flares and Storms Regulate Atmospheric Losses from the TRAPPIST-1 Planets
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019ESS…..431901D/abstract

JexoSim: A time domain simulator of exoplanet transit spectroscopy with JWST
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz2958/5602604

The Difficulty of Predicting Stellar Occultations by Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab4efb

Searching for Planets Orbiting Alpha Centauri A with the James Webb Space Telescope
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.09709

Stellar Proton Event-induced surface radiation dose as a constraint on the habitability of terrestrial exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.09871

The Kepler-11 system: evolution of the stellar high-energy emission and {initial planetary} atmospheric mass fractions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.09877

October 22, 2019 updates

Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds
https://exoplanets.psu.edu/

No further evidence for a transiting inner companion to the hot Jupiter HATS‐50b
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.201913649

Revised Astrometric Calibration of the Gemini Planet Imager
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.08659

Are long-term N-body simulations reliable?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.08667

Exoplanet direct imaging in ground-based conditions on THD2 bench
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.09064

2I/Borisov: A C2 depleted interstellar comet
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.09078

Temporal Variability in Hot Jupiter Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.09523

October 18, 2019 updates

Oxygen fugacities of extrasolar rocks: Evidence for an Earth-like geochemistry of exoplanets
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6463/356

Constraints on the Occurrence and Distribution of 1–20 M Jup Companions to Stars at Separations of 5–5000 au from a Compilation of Direct Imaging Surveys
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab4130

Signatures of a Planet–Planet Impacts Phase in Exoplanetary Systems Hosting Giant Planets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab4a7b

A Hubble PanCET Study of HAT-P-11b: A Cloudy Neptune with a Low Atmospheric Metallicity
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.07523

Transit Signatures of Inhomogeneous Clouds on Hot Jupiters: Insights From Microphysical Cloud Modeling
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.07527

Resilient habitability of nearby exoplanet systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.07573

Determining the mass of the planetary candidate HD 114762 b using Gaia
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.07835

LcTools: A Windows-Based Software System for Finding and Recording Signals in Lightcurves from NASA Space Missions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.08034

Predicting the Extreme Ultraviolet Radiation Environment of Exoplanets Around Low-Mass Stars: GJ 832, GJ 176, GJ 436
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.08053

October 17, 2019 updates

Didier Queloz, Physics Nobel Prize Winner 2019, Is Developing an Advanced Terrestrial Planet Hunter for the Isaac Newton Telescope
http://www.ing.iac.es/PR/press/Nobel_Prize_2019.html

Planet2 / RESCEU Symposium 2019: From Protoplanetary Disks through Planetary System Architecture to Planetary Atmospheres and Habitability
http://www.resceu.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/symposium/resceu_sympo2019/

Predictions of Cognitive Detriments from Galactic Cosmic Ray Exposures to Astronauts on Exploration Missions
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2214552419301221

The interstellar object ‘Oumuamua as a fractal dust aggregate
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.07135

A Flexible Bayesian Framework for Assessing Habitability with Joint Observational and Model Constraints
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.07137

WASP-South detection of HD219666b transits provides an accurate ephemeris
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.07276