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 4, 2018 updates

Construction of Europe’s exoplanet hunter Plato begins
http://spacenewsfeed.com/index.php/news/2099-construction-of-europe-s-exoplanet-hunter-plato-begins

Evidence for a large exomoon orbiting Kepler-1625b
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/10/eaav1784

Ion-beam-driven Planetary Physics Research at FAIR
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/aadd4c

Scientific image rendering for space scenes with the SurRender software
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.01423

Detection of planetary signals by reflected light of the host star using the autocorrelation of spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.01792

October 2, 2018 updates

Outer Space as a Socioeconomic Field
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-96857-5_4

The Global Catastrophic Risks Connected with Possibility of Finding Alien AI During SETI
https://philpapers.org/rec/TURTRC

The Origins Space Telescope (OST) Mission Concept Study Interim Report
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.09702

Implications of Directed Energy for SETI
http://www.deepspace.ucsb.edu/projects/implications-of-directed-energy-for-seti

Capturing the oxidation of silicon carbide in rocky exoplanetary interiors
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/forth/aa33942-18.pdf

Single site observations of TESS monotransit detections
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/forth/aa34014-18.pdf

A Cold Neptune Beyond the Snow Line in the Provisional WFIRST Field
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.00014

On the detectability of transiting planets orbiting white dwarfs using LSST
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.00776

October 1, 2018 updates

Space colonization remains the only long-term option for humanity: A reply to Torres
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016328718302222

Single site observations of \textit{TESS} single transit detections
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.10687

A Discrete Set of Possible Transit Ephemerides for Two Long Period Gas Giants Orbiting HIP 41378
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.10688

Global or Local Pure-Condensible Atmospheres: Importance of Horizontal Latent Heat Transport
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.10849

Transiting Planets with LSST IV: Detecting Planets around White Dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.10900

Transit Timing Variations and linear ephemerides of confirmed Kepler transiting exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.11104

Revisiting the HIP41378 system with K2 and Spitzer
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.11116