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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September 23, 2019 updates

Principles of Space Anthropology
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-030-25021-8

Prevalence of Fibonacci numbers in orbital period ratios in solar planetary and satellite systems and in exoplanetary systems
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10509-019-3649-2

Transition from eyeball to snowball driven by sea-ice drift on tidally locked terrestrial planets
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-019-0883-z

Combining high-contrast imaging and radial velocities to constrain the planetary architectures of nearby stars
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2019/10/aa35733-19/aa35733-19.html

Tidal response of rocky and ice-rich exoplanets
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2019/10/aa35297-19/aa35297-19.html

Water vapor detection in the transmission spectra of HD 209458 b with the CARMENES NIR channel
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2019/10/aa36084-19/aa36084-19.html

Searching for a cometary belt around Trappist-1 with ALMA
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.09158

An Empirical Mass-Radius Relation for Cool Giant Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.09207

Doppler tomography as a tool for detecting exoplanet atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.09219

Resonant Laplace-Lagrange theory for extrasolar systems in mean-motion resonance
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.09462

September 20, 2019 updates

Interstellar Visitors: A Physical Characterization of Comet C/2019 Q4 (Borisov) with OSIRIS at the 10.4 m GTC
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab449c

Static Traversable Wormholes in f(R,T) = R + 2α lnT Gravity
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0577907319309141

The highly inflated giant planet WASP-174b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.08674

Prospects for Life on Temperate Planets Around Brown Dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.08791

Planet Hunters TESS I: TOI 813, a subgiant hosting a transiting Saturn-sized planet on an 84-day orbit
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.09094

Simultaneous Optical Transmission Spectroscopy of a Terrestrial, Habitable-Zone Exoplanet with Two Ground-Based Multi-Object Spectrographs
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.09104

September 19, 2019 updates

Solar Sail Propulsion Status
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20190030798.pdf

Expected performances of the Characterising Exoplanet Satellite (CHEOPS) III. Data reduction pipeline: architecture and simulated performances
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.08363

DESTINY: Database for the Effects of STellar encounters on dIsks and plaNetary sYstems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.08404

Non-adiabatic tidal oscillations induced by a planetary companion
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.08476

September 18, 2019 updates

Beyond the exoplanet mass-radius relation
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.07392

Energy Budgets for Terrestrial Extrasolar Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.07418

An Automated Method to Detect Transiting Circumbinary Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.07443

Predicting the Yield of Potential Venus Analogs from TESS and their Potential for Atmospheric Characterization
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.07456

The fate of planetary core in giant and icy-giant planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.07640

An Argument for a Kilometer-Scale Nucleus of C/2019 Q4
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.07286

September 17, 2019 updates

Red Dwarfs
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-25550-3

On the interstellar Von Neumann micro self-reproducing probes
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.05078

ARIEL exoplanet mission celebrates machine learning challenge and citizen science launch
https://www.europlanet-society.org/ariel-exoplanet-mission-celebrates-machine-learning-challenge-and-citizen-science-launch/

ARIEL Space Mission
https://arielmission.space/

ExoClock
https://ariel-gbfu.azurewebsites.net/

Fast-modulation imaging with the self-coherent camera
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2019/09/aa36496-19/aa36496-19.html

Hidden Planets: Implications from ‘Oumuamua and DSHARP
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.06387

Status of the Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer Phase II Development
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.06487

Thermal evolution of rocky exoplanets with a graphite outer shell
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.07255