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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April 24, 2018 updates

Radio Emission from the Exoplanetary System epsilon Eridani
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aab3cb

Biases in Planet Occurrence Caused by Unresolved Binaries in Transit Surveys
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07764

GPI spectra of HR 8799 c, d, and e from 1.5 to 2.4μm with KLIP Forward Modeling
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07774

Comparison of the power-2 limb-darkening law from the Stagger-grid to Kepler light curves of transiting exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07943

Modeling Exoplanetary Atmospheres: An Overview
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.08149

Exploring the realm of scaled Solar System analogs with HARPS
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.08329

SETI with Gaia: The observational signatures of nearly complete Dyson spheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.08351

PyMieDAP: a Python–Fortran tool to compute fluxes and polarization signals of (exo)planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.08357

April 23, 2018 updates

A Thought Experiment Relevant to the Fermi Paradox
https://geopolicraticus.wordpress.com/2018/04/21/a-thought-experiment-relevant-to-the-fermi-paradox/

Exoplanet Biosignatures: A Framework for Their Assessment
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2017.1737

Woodpeckers and Diamonds: Some Aspects of Evolutionary Convergence in Astrobiology
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2017.1741

An Accurate Mass Determination for Kepler-1655b, a Moderately Irradiated World with a Significant Volatile Envelope
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aab8f3

Observational Techniques With Transiting Exoplanetary Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07357

A universal spin-mass relation for brown dwarfs and planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07380

Analyzing astronomical data with Apache Spark [not specifically interstellar-oriented, but useful in analysis]
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07501

The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: 1.1-1.9 GHz observations of 692 Nearby Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.03491

April 19, 2018 updates

Increased Tidal Dissipation Using Advanced Rheological Models: Implications for Io and Tidally Active Exoplanets
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aab784

Stellar Photospheric Abundances as a Probe of Disks and Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.06414

ALMA resolves CI emission from the β Pictoris debris disk
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.06479

Properties of the single Jovian planet population and the pursuit of Solar system analogues
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.06547

April 18, 2018 updates

The GALAH survey: An abundance, age, and kinematic inventory of the solar neighbourhood made with TGAS
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.05869

Venus as an Analog for Hot Earths
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.05889

Interferometric diameters of five evolved intermediate-mass planet-hosting stars measured with PAVO at the CHARA Array
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.05976

The GALAH Survey: Second Data Release
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.06041

The contribution of the ARIEL space mission to the study of planetary formation
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.06179