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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February 24, 2019 updates

This is a special edition of the interstellar updates, due to the American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2018 abstracts just having come to our attention.

Interstellar Probe: A New Mission for a New Decade
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018AGUFMSH32C..01M

Interstellar Probe: The Compelling Science Case, Strawman Payload and Resources
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018AGUFMSH33C3660B

Ion and Neutral Gas Mass Spectrometer Instrument for the Future NASA Interstellar Probe Mission
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018AGUFMSH33C3670P

The Case for a Radio and Plasma Wave Receiver on an Interstellar Probe
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018AGUFMSH33C3665K

Interstellar Express: A New Chinese Space Mission to Explore the Outer Heliosphere
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018AGUFMSH32C..02W

Overview of the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) Mission
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018AGUFMSH12B..01M

Surveying the edge of our solar system and the interstellar interaction with IMAP
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018AGUFMSH12B..03S

Precise Measurement of the Interstellar Flow with IMAP, Informed by IBEX Observations
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018AGUFMSH13C2964M

Critical Subsystem Analysis for a 1000 AU Interstellar Pathfinder Mission
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018AGUFMSH33C3655B

Outer Boundary Explorations: Using New Space Launch Vehicles To Explore The Edge Of The Solar System and Beyond
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018AGUFMSA21A3144P

Enabling a Solar System Escape Mission via The NASA Space Launch System
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018AGUFMSH32C..03S

The Habitable Zone: Intended Applications, Controversial Misapplications, and Needed Improvements
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018AGUFM.P31C3734D

February 22, 2019 updates

Diving into Exoplanets: Are Water Seas the Most Common?
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2017.1720

Hachimoji DNA and RNA: A genetic system with eight building blocks
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/363/6429/884

Ultra-Stable Environment Control for the NEID Spectrometer: Design and Performance Demonstration
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.07729

Low albedos of hot to ultra-hot Jupiters in the optical to near-infrared transition regime
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.07944

Comparative analysis of the influence of Sgr A* and nearby active galactic nuclei on the mass loss of known exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.07950

Hydrogen Cyanide in Nitrogen-Rich Atmospheres of Rocky Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.08022

A Fast Approximate Approach to Microlensing Survey Analysis
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.08092

Introduction: Detectability of Future Earth
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.08035

February 20, 2019 updates

Breakthrough Propulsion Study
https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2019/02/15/breakthrough-propulsion-study/

Stellar spectroscopy in the near-infrared with a laser frequency comb
https://www.osapublishing.org/optica/abstract.cfm?uri=optica-6-2-233

Multiverse Predictions for Habitability: Number of Habitable Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.06784

Tropical and Extratropical General Circulation with a Meridional Reversed Temperature Gradient as Expected in a High Obliquity Planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.06832

PDS 70: A transition disk sculpted by a single planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.07191

February 19, 2019 updates

Project Lyra: Catching 1I/’Oumuamua – Mission Opportunities After 2024
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04935

HADES RV program with HARPS-N at the TNG IX. A super-Earth around the M dwarf Gl 686
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2019/02/aa34868-18/aa34868-18.html

The SOPHIE search for northern extrasolar planets. XIV. A temperate (Teq∼300 K) super-earth around the nearby star Gliese 411
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.06004

The SOPHIE search for northern extrasolar planets XV. A Warm Neptune around the M-dwarf Gl378
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.05998

An alternative interpretation of the exomoon candidate signal in the combined Kepler and Hubble data of Kepler-1625
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.06018