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 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

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