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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June 26, 2018 updates

Can Deep Altruism Sustain Space Settlement?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.06132

Population Growth, Energy Use, and the Implications for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.06474

Catching a ride: using hypervelocity stars for interstellar and intergalactic travel
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325688096_Catching_a_ride_using_hypervelocity_stars_for_interstellar_and_intergalactic_travel

Characterization of Exoplanets and Stellar Systems with New Robots
https://search.proquest.com/openview/50d672c2d625abe881fcf193a4d8c8eb/1

An Excess of Jupiter Analogs in Super-Earth Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.08799

Empty gaps? Depleting annular regions in debris discs by secular resonance with a two-planet system
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.08802

Hill stability in the AMD framework
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.08869

Understanding Super-Earths with MINERVA-Australis at USQ’s Mount Kent Observatory
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.09282

The galactic rate of second and third generation disc and planet formation
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.09427

June 22, 2018 updates

Dissolving the Fermi Paradox
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02404

Anti-correlation between multiplicity and orbital properties in exoplanetary systems as a possible record of their dynamical histories
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2018/06/aa31595e-17/aa31595e-17.html

Teetering Stars: Resonant Excitation of Stellar Obliquities by Hot and Warm Jupiters with External Companions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.07892

Improving dynamical mass constraints for intermediate-period substellar companions using Gaia DR2
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.07899

On the Rate of Abiogenesis from a Bayesian Informatics Perspective
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.08033

Portable Adaptive Optics for exoplanet imaging
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.08050

kima: Exoplanet detection in radial velocities
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.08305

June 20, 2018 updates

Binary Companions of Evolved Stars in APOGEE DR14: Search Method and Catalog of ~5000 Companions
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aac387

The Upper Atmospheres of Terrestrial Planets: Carbon Dioxide Cooling and the Earth’s Thermospheric Evolution
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.06897

Low mass planet migration in Hall-affected disks
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.06960

From Planetesimal to Planet in Turbulent Disks. II. Formation of Gas Giant Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.07354

Securing Fuel for Our Frigid Cosmic Future
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.07170