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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May 11, 2018 updates

Exoplanet Biosignatures: Understanding Oxygen as a Biosignature in the Context of Its Environment
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2017.1727

Decoding Alien Intelligence Workshop Guest Papers
https://daiworkshop.seti.org/guest-papers

Decoding Alien Intelligence Workshop White Papers
https://daiworkshop.seti.org/white-papers

Statistical Trends in the Obliquity Distribution of Exoplanet Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.03654

A Framework for Prioritizing the TESS Planetary Candidates Most Amenable to Atmospheric Characterization
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.03671

The ExoMol Atlas of Molecular Opacities
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.03711

Reassessing Exoplanet Light Curves with a Thermal Model
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.04067

May 10, 2018 updates

Exploring Kepler Giant Planets in the Habitable Zone
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.03370

Evidence of a Sub-Saturn around EPIC~211945201
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.03466

Spinup and Disruption of Interstellar Asteroids by Mechanical Torques, and Implications for 1I/2017 U1 (`Oumuamua)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.01335

Origin and continuation of 3/2, 5/2, 3/1, 4/1 and 5/1 resonant periodic orbits in the circular and elliptic restricted three-body problem
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.00288

May 9, 2018 updates

Atmospheric Seasonality as an Exoplanet Biosignature
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aac171/meta

The Super Earth-Cold Jupiter Relations
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.02660

Limb Darkening and Planetary Transits II: Intensity profile correction factors for a grid of model stellar atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.02696

Giant planets around FGK stars form probably through core accretion
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.02721

A Survey of Exoplanetary Detection Techniques
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.02771

Combining low- to high-resolution transit spectroscopy of HD 189733b. Linking the troposphere and the thermosphere of a hot gas giant
https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.09678

Is Life Most Likely Around Sun-like Stars?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.11134

May 8, 2018 updates

K2-141 b A 5-M⊕ super-Earth transiting a K7 V star every 6.7 h
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2018/04/aa32217-17

First direct detection of a polarized companion outside of a resolved circumbinary disk around CS Cha
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.02261

Breakthrough Listen Begins Survey of the Plane of the Milky Way at Parkes
http://breakthroughinitiatives.org/news/20

Detecting Exomoons Via Doppler Monitoring of Directly Imaged Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.01903

Unbiased inference of the masses of transiting planets from radial velocity followup
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.01906

A gap in the planetesimal disc around HD 107146 and asymmetric warm dust emission revealed by ALMA
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.01915

Obliquity Variations of Habitable Zone Planets Kepler-62f and Kepler-186f
https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.07303

Stability and self-organization of planetary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.08575

May 7, 2018 updates

Exoplanet Biosignatures: A Review of Remotely Detectable Signs of Life
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2017.1729

An absolute sodium abundance for a cloud-free ‘hot Saturn’ exoplanet
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0101-7

A Methane Extension to the Classical Habitable Zone
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aab8fa

Transiting Exoplanet Monitoring Project (TEMP). IV. Refined System Parameters, Transit Timing Variations and Orbital Stability of the Transiting Planetary System HAT-P-25
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.01580

HD 89345: a bright oscillating star hosting a transiting warm Saturn-sized planet observed by K2
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.01860

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

Retired A Stars Revisited: An Updated Giant Planet Occurrence Rate as a Function of Stellar Metallicity and Mass
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.09082

Formation of Silicate and Titanium Clouds on Hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.01468

Can Rocky Exoplanets with Rings Pose as Sub-Neptunes?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.01478

Transit time derivation for hot planet bow-shocks
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.01496