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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January 7, 2019 updates

Astrosociology and the Search for Technosignatures
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2019-1517

The Dipole Drive: A New Concept in Space Propulsion
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2019-1122

Dynamics and Estimation of Origami-Inspired Deployable Space Structures: A Review
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2019-0480

Assuring Spacecraft Swarm Byzantine Resilience
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2019-0224

Data Reduction Pipeline of the TOU Optical Very High Resolution Spectrograph and Its sub-m s−1 Performance
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz028/5274148

Close-in Super-Earths: The first and the last stages of planet formation in an MRI-accreting disc
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz004/5274141

K2-288Bb: A Small Temperate Planet in a Low-mass Binary System Discovered by Citizen Scientists
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aafa70

Project Lyra: Sending a spacecraft to 1I/’Oumuamua (former A/2017 U1), the interstellar asteroid
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576518317004

Study of terrestrial glints based on DSCOVR observations
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2018EA000509

Flat Spectrum Radio Continuum Emission Associated with ε Eridani
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.00903

January 4, 2019 updates

Ultrahigh Acceleration Neutral Particle Beam-Driven Sails
https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2019/01/03/ultrahigh-acceleration-neutral-particle-beam-driven-sails/

Precovery of Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite Single Transits with Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aaf23c

VLT/SPHERE Multiwavelength High-contrast Imaging of the HD 115600 Debris Disk: New Constraints on the Dust Geometry and the Presence of Young Giant Planets
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aaf1bd

Bifurcation in the Growth of Continental Crust
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031920118301924

HAZMAT. V. The Ultraviolet and X-ray Evolution of K Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.00502

Wobble: a data-driven method for precision radial velocities
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.00503

Re-Evaluating Small Long-Period Confirmed Planets From Kepler
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.00506

Turning up the heat on `Oumuamua
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.00508

The atmospheric circulation and climate of terrestrial planets orbiting Sun-like and M-dwarf stars over a broad range of planetary parameters
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.00567

Physics of Planet Trapping with Applications to HL Tau
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.00778

January 3, 2019 updates

Lethal Radiation from Nearby Supernovae Helps Explain the Small Cosmological Constant
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2018.1895

The Longest Period TESS Planet Yet: A Sub-Neptune Transiting A Bright, Nearby K Dwarf Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.00051

Accounting for Incompleteness due to Transit Multiplicity in Kepler Planet Occurrence Rates
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.00196

Breezing through the space environment of Barnard’s Star b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.00219

Stellar Flares from the First Tess Data Release: Exploring a New Sample of M-dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.00443

January 1, 2019 updates

Dust bombardment can explain the extremely elongated shape of 1I/’Oumuamua and the lack of interstellar objects
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.11334

Modular Inflatable Composites for Space Telescopes
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.11667

Microlensing Results Challenge the Core Accretion Runaway Growth Scenario for Gas Giants
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.11785

Exoplanets in the Antarctic Sky. I. The First Data Release of AST3-II (CHESPA) and New Found Variables within the Southern CVZ of TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.11907

December 31, 2018 updates

Pulsed Fission-Fusion (PuFF) –Phase I Report
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20180008679.pdf

Propellant-less Propulsion from Quantised Inertia
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329754104_Propellant-less_Propulsion_from_Quantised_Inertia

Overstable Convective Modes of Rotating Hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.10598

Secondary eclipses of WASP-18b — Near Infrared observations with the Anglo Australian Telescope, the Magellan Clay Telescope and the LCOGT network
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.10623