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 16, 2018 updates

Atomic iron and titanium in the atmosphere of the exoplanet KELT-9b
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0401-y

Atmospheric Retrieval of Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.04824

Detecting free-floating planets using water-depend colour terms in the next generation of infrared space-based surveys
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.04828

SPHERE / ZIMPOL high resolution polarimetric imager. I. System overview, PSF parameters, coronagraphy, and polarimetry
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.05008

An ice giant exoplanet interpretation of the anomaly in microlensing event OGLE-2011-BLG-0173
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.00049

August 15, 2018 updates

Deep Space Commodities
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-90303-3

Astrobiology and Society in Europe Today
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-96265-8

Material Properties for the Interiors of Massive Giant Planets and Brown Dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.04472

Searching for Biosignatures in Exoplanetary Impact Ejecta
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.04504

Revised Exoplanet Radii and Habitability Using Gaia Data Release 2
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.04533

Trapping low-mass planets at the inner edge of the protostellar disc
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.04546

August 3, 2018 updates

Searching for E.T.: A Universal Units Proposal
http://jbis.org.uk/paper.php?p=2018.71.43

Computing the Minimal Crew for a multi-generational space journey towards Proxima b
http://jbis.org.uk/paper.php?p=2018.71.45

Worldship Ethics: Obligations to the Crew
http://jbis.org.uk/paper.php?p=2018.71.53

The Social Dynamics of Science, Exoplanetary Environments and the Drake Equation
http://jbis.org.uk/paper.php?p=2018.71.65

The Global Catastrophic Risks
http://jbis.org.uk/paper.php?p=2018.71.71

Planet Formation: An Optimized Population-Synthesis Approach
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.03293

ALES: Overview and Upgrades
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.03301

The Planetary Systems Imager: 2-5 Micron Channel
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.03304

New transit timing observations for GJ 436 b, HAT-P-3 b, HAT-P-19 b, WASP-3 b, and XO-2 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.03306

MEAD: Data Reduction Pipeline for ALES Integral Field Spectrograph and LBTI Thermal Infrared Calibration Unit
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.03356

August 10, 2018 updates

The California-Kepler Survey. VI: Kepler Multis and Singles Have Similar Planet and Stellar Properties Indicating a Common Origin
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.03010

Data processing on simulated data for SHARK-NIR
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.03121

OGLE-2014-BLG-1186: gravitational microlensing providing evidence for a planet orbiting the foreground star or for a close binary source?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.03149

LOCNES: Low Cost NIR Extended Solar Telescope
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.03185

Discovery of WASP-174b: Doppler tomography of a near-grazing transit
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.00766