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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August 31, 2018 updates

Habitability of Exoplanet Waterworlds
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aad6e0

Ground- and Space-based Detection of the Thermal Emission Spectrum of the Transiting Hot Jupiter KELT-2Ab
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aad781

MOA-2015-BLG-337: A Planetary System with a Low-mass Brown Dwarf/Planetary Boundary Host, or a Brown Dwarf Binary
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aad5ee

A Search for Refraction in Kepler Photometry of Gas Giants
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/aadcb1

The Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat (SPARCS): A Mission to Understand the Impact of Stars in Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.09954

Dust Production and Depletion in Evolved Planetary Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.09967

Hydrohalite Salt-albedo Feedback Could Cool M-dwarf Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.09977

Retrieval of planetary and stellar properties in transmission spectroscopy with Aura
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.10017

A Quantitative Comparison of Exoplanet Catalogs
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.10236

Selective Aggregation Experiments on Planetesimal Formation and Mercury-Like Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.10246

The Near-Infrared Transmission Spectra of TRAPPIST-1 Planets b, c, d, e, f, and g and Stellar Contamination in Multi-Epoch Transit Spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.02086

August 30, 2018 updates

Influence of Stellar Metallicity on Occurrence Rates of Planets and Planetary Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.09451

Constraining the Time Interval for the Origin of Life on Earth
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.09460

Diverse protoplanetary disk morphology produced by a Jupiter-mass planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.09472

Investigating the possibility of reversing giant planet migration via gap edge illumination
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.09554

The effects of stellar activity on optical high-resolution exoplanet transmission spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.09558

Spitzer Phase Curves of KELT-1b and the Signatures of Nightside Clouds in Thermal Phase Observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.09575

Direct Imaging in Reflected Light: Characterization of Older, Temperate Exoplanets With 30-m Telescopes
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.09632

Threshold radii of volatile-rich planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.09872

Simulation and Validation of a SpaceWire On-Board Data-Handling Network for the PLATO Mission
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.09874

The PLATO Payload Data Processing System SpaceWire network
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.09878

Community targets for JWST’s early release science program: evaluation of WASP-63b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.07421

August 29, 2018 updates

Big Data on Exoplanet Composition
https://www.americanscientist.org/article/big-data-on-exoplanet-composition

Precision Light Curves from TESS Full-frame Images: A Different Imaging Approach
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aad68e

Mass-dependent Dynamics of Terrestrial Exoplanets Using ab initio Mineral Properties
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103517306516

Radio SETI Observations of the Interstellar Object ‘Oumuamua
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.09355

Infrared Variability of Two Dusty White Dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.09426

August 28, 2018 updates

Detectability of biosignatures in anoxic atmospheres with the James Webb Space Telescope: A TRAPPIST-1e case study
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.08377

Larger mutual inclinations for the shortest-period planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.08475

Planetary tidal interactions and the rotational evolution of low-mass stars. The Pleiades’ anomaly
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.08728

Role of gaseous giants in the dynamical evolution of terrestrial planets and water delivery in the habitable zone
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.08870

August 27, 2018 updates

The Equation of State of MH-III: a possible deep CH4 reservoir in Titan, Super-Titan exoplanets and moons
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.07925

Capture into first-order resonances and long-term stability of pairs of equal-mass planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.08059

EPIC211682544b: A 50-day period sub-Neptune with a mass measurement using HARPS-N
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.08187

Equation of state of SiC at extreme conditions: new insight into the interior of carbon rich exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.08201

Limitations of Chemical Propulsion for Interstellar Escape from Habitable Zones around Low-Mass Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.08141

Exploring the climate of Proxima B with the Met Office Unified Model
https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.08463