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 17, 2018 updates

A Serendipitous MWA Search for Narrowband Signals from ‘Oumuamua
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aab359/meta

Wavelet based speckle suppression for exoplanet imaging – Application of a de-noising technique in the time domain
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.05063

Ultra-short-period planets from secular chaos
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.05065

Identifying inflated super-Earths and photo-evaporated cores
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.05069

Exoplanet Science Priorities from the Perspective of Internal and Surface Processes for Silicate and Ice Dominated Worlds
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.05094

Highly Volcanic Exoplanets, Lava Worlds, and Magma Ocean Worlds: An Emerging Class of Dynamic Exoplanets of Significant Scientific Priority
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.05110

Characterizing K2 Candidate Planetary Systems Orbiting Low-Mass Stars III: A High Mass & Low Envelope Fraction for the Warm Neptune K2-55b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.05148

WASP-104b is Darker than Charcoal
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.05334

Architectures of planetary systems formed by pebble accretion
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.05510

KPS-1b: the first transiting exoplanet discovered using an amateur astronomer’s wide-field CCD data
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.05551

Microphysical Modeling of Mineral Clouds in GJ1214 b and GJ436 b: Predicting Upper Limits on the Cloud-Top Height
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.05708

What and Whence 1I/`Oumuamua: A Contact Binary from the Debris of a Young Planetary System?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.06721

Particle accretion onto planets in discs with hydrodynamic turbulence
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.08730

April 16, 2018 updates

New inner boundaries of the habitable zones around M dwarfs
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X18301985

Binary companions of evolved stars in APOGEE DR14: Search method and catalog of ~5,000 companions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.04662

Puzzling out the coexistence of terrestrial planets and giant exoplanets. The 2/1 resonant periodic orbits
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.04936

Analytical Models of Exoplanetary Atmospheres. VI. Full Solutions for Improved Two-stream Radiative Transfer Including Direct Stellar Beam
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.04961

FastChem: A computer program for efficient complex chemical equilibrium calculations in the neutral/ionized gas phase with applications to stellar and planetary atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.05010

A Revised Exoplanet Yield from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.05050

Spaceflight from Super-Earths is difficult [Serious version of the April Fool’s idea previously posted]
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.04727

An Improved Transit Measurement for a 2.4 R_{Earth} Planet Orbiting A Bright Mid-M Dwarf K2−28
https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.10177

April 13, 2018 updates

TESS readies for takeoff
https://news.mit.edu/2018/tess-readies-takeoff-discover-exoplanets-0412

Earth as an Exoplanet
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.04138

Mars’ Growth Stunted by an Early Giant Planet Instability
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.04233

X-Ray Ionization of Planet-Opened Gaps in Protostellar Disks
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.04265

The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: Wide-bandwidth Digital Instrumentation for the CSIRO Parkes 64-m Telescope
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.04571

A Multi-Year Search For Transits Of Proxima Centauri. I: Light Curves Corresponding To Published Ephemerides
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.04284

April 12, 2018 updates

The cosmic gorilla effect or the problem of undetected non terrestrial intelligent signals
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009457651731706X

On The Lack of Circumbinary Planets Orbiting Isolated Binary Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.03676

Confirming Variability in the Secondary Eclipse Depth of the Super-Earth 55 Cancri e
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.03735

The Silurian Hypothesis: Would it be possible to detect an industrial civilization in the geological record?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.03748

Planets around the evolved stars 24 Booties and γ Libra: A 30d-period planet and a double giant-planet system in possible 7:3 MMR
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.04008

Connecting Planetary Composition with Formation
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.04070

Interstellar Escape from Proxima b is Barely Possible with Chemical Rockets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.03698

April 11, 2018 updates

What is Alpha Centauri hiding? Searches for Earth-like planets ramp up around our nearest stellar neighbor
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/04/what-alpha-centauri-hiding-searches-earth-planets-ramp-around-our-nearest-stellar

Finding and Characterizing Other Worlds: the Thermal-IR ELT Opportunity
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.03218

The HADES RV Programme with HARPS-N@TNG VIII. Gl15A: A multiple wide planetary system sculpted by binary interaction
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.03476