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 18, 2018 updates

Scaling Laws of Ion Acceleration in Ultrathin Foils Driven by Laser Radiation Pressure
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.06007

QED cascade in a plane electromagnetic wave
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.06115

Ground- and Space-based Detection of the Thermal Emission Spectrum of the Transiting Hot Jupiter KELT-2Ab
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.05615

Survivability of Moon Systems Around Ejected Gas Giants
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.05639

Stellar pulsation and granulation as noise sources in exoplanet transit spectroscopy in the ARIEL space mission
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.05683

TESS Discovery of a Transiting Super-Earth in the Π Mensae System
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.05967

Disentangling Blended K2 Photometry: Determining the Planetary Host Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.05981

Exoplanet Modulation of Stellar Coronal Radio Emission
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.06279

Stable equatorial ice belts at high obliquity in a coupled atmosphere-ocean model
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.10751

A Framework for Prioritizing the TESS Planetary Candidates Most Amenable to Atmospheric Characterization
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.03671

September 17, 2018 updates

Interaction of infalling solid bodies with primordial atmospheres of disk-embedded planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.05307

Improving Orbit Estimates for Incomplete Orbits with a New Approach to Priors – with Applications from Black Holes to Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.05490

The hot Jupiter period-mass distribution as a signature of in situ formation
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.05517

The Application of Autocorrelation SETI Search Techniques in an ATA Survey
https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.00055

September 14, 2018 updates

Measurement of Source Star Colors with the K2C9-CFHT Multi-color Microlensing Survey
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/aadcd3

Pyaneti: a fast and powerful software suite for multi-planet radial velocity and transit fitting
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.04609

Magnetically Induced Termination of Giant Planet Formation
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.04657

WASP-189b: an ultra-hot Jupiter transiting the bright A star HR 5599 in a polar orbit
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.04897

Exoplanet Terra Incognita
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.05031

Implications of Captured Interstellar Objects for Panspermia and Extraterrestrial Life
https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.10254

K2-260 b: a hot Jupiter transiting an F star, and K2-261 b: a warm Saturn around a bright G star
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.06099

September 13, 2018 updates

Disruption of a Planet Spiraling into its Host Star
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aad77c

Measuring the Water Snow Line in a Protoplanetary Disk
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/aadfe7

Dynamical Constraints on the HR 8799 Planets with GPI
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.04107

Photochemical Oxygen in Non-1 Bar CO2 Atmospheres of Terrestrial Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.04545

SETI Detection Strategies for Single Dish Radio Telescopes
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.04533

On quasi-satellite periodic motion in asteroid and planetary dynamics
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.00492

September 12, 2018 updates

Secular transport during disk dispersal: the case of Kepler-419
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.03510

Carbon ‘fluffy’ aggregates produced by helium – hydrocarbon high pressure plasmas as analogs to interstellar dust
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.03698

Prospecting for exo-Earths in multiple planet systems with a gas giant
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.03730

Physical properties and optical-infrared transmission spectrum of the giant planet XO-1b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.03775

K2 targets observed with SPHERE/VLT. A M4-7 dwarf companion resolved around EPIC206011496
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.03848

3D Simulations of Planet Trapping at Disc-Cavity Boundaries
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.04013

Comparison of signal detectors for time domain radio SETI
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.03547