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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July 3, 2018 updates

Kepler Object of Interest Network II. Photodynamical modelling of Kepler-9 over 8 years of transit observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.00007

Photoevaporation and High-Eccentricity Migration Created the Sub-Jovian Desert
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.00012

The warm Neptunes around HD 106315 have low stellar obliquities
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.00024

Sunscreen: Photometric Signatures of Galaxies Partially Cloaked in Dyson Spheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.00077

The Impact of Stellar Distances on Habitable Zone Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.00378

The orbital eccentricity of small planet systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.00549

Stellar contributions in the line-profiles of high-resolution transmission spectra of exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.00577

The GJ 504 system revisited. Combining interferometric, radial velocity, and high contrast imaging data
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.00657

The TROY project: II. Multi-technique constraints on exotrojans in nine planetary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.00773

An asteroseismic view of the radius valley: stripped cores, not born rocky
https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.05398

July 2, 2018 updates

Revisiting the exomoon candidate around Kepler-1625 b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/forth/aa33085-18.pdf

UV Surface Environments and Atmospheres of Earth-like Planets Orbiting White Dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.11200

SPECULOOS: a network of robotic telescopes to hunt for terrestrial planets around the nearest ultracool dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.11205

Survival Function Analysis of Planet Size Distribution with GAIA Data Release 2 Updates
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.11234

44 Validated Planets from K2 Campaign 10
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.11504

Orbital and atmospheric characterization of the planet within the gap of the PDS 70 transition disk
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.11567

Discovery of a planetary-mass companion within the gap of the transition disk around PDS 70
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.11568

June 29, 2018 updates

Single planet formation regime in the high-ionization environment: Possible origin of hot Jupiters and super-Earths
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674987116301591

The SOPHIE search for northern extrasolar planets XIII. Two planets around M-dwarfs Gl617A and Gl96
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.10958

Zonal-mean atmospheric dynamics of slowly-rotating terrestrial planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.10494

The Swarm Telescope Concept
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.10634

Stellar abundance of binary stars: their role in determining the formation location of super-Earths and ice giants
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.10683