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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August 2, 2018 updates

Penetrative Convection in Super‐Earth planets: Consequences of MgSiO3 post‐Perovskite Dissociation Transition and Implications for super‐Earth GJ 876 d
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2018JE005633

Understanding WASP-12b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.00052

Habitability in the Omega Centauri Cluster
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.00053

Radioactive nuclei from cosmochronology to habitability
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.00233

Characterisation of the HD 219134 multi-planet system I. Observations of stellar magnetism, wind, and high-energy flux
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.00406

Characterisation of the HD219134 multi-planet system II. Stellar-wind sputtered exospheres in rocky planets b & c
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.00404

August 1, 2018 updates

The origin of RNA precursors on exoplanets
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/8/eaar3302

The Search for Extra-Galactic Intelligence Signals Synchronized with Binary Neutron Star Mergers
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aad33d

Using warm dust to constrain unseen planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.11536

The Planet Formation Imager
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.11559

Planet Formation Imager: Project Update
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.11555

The Efficiency of Geometric Samplers for Exoplanet Transit Timing Variation Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.11591

Precovery of TESS Single Transits with KELT
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.11922

55 Cancri (Copernicus): A Multi-Planet System with a Hot Super-Earth and a Jupiter Analogue
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.11925

July 31, 2018 updates

Where no planetary protection policy has gone before
https://doi.org/10.1017/S1473550418000228

A Catalog of Spectra, Albedos, and Colors of Solar System Bodies for Exoplanet Comparison
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2017.1763

Two warm, low-density sub-Jovian planets orbiting bright stars in K2 campaigns 13 and 14
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.02858

Magellan Adaptive Optics Imaging of PDS 70: Measuring the Mass Accretion Rate of a Young Giant Planet within a Gapped Disk
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.10766

Diagnosing aerosols in extrasolar giant planets with cross-correlation function of water bands
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.10769

Predicting the Orbit of TRAPPIST-1i
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.10835

Slowing Down Type II Migration of Gas Giants to Match Observational Data
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.10871

Expected Yields of Planet discoveries from the TESS primary and extended missions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.11129

July 30, 2018 updates

A Place Among the Stars? The Influence of Religion and Creationism on Attitudes Toward Space Exploration and Beliefs in Extraterrestrial Life
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1144&context=psychology_etds

EPIC 246851721 b: A Tropical Jupiter Transiting a Rapidly Rotating Star in a Well-Aligned Orbit
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.10298

Evolution of Earth-like planetary atmospheres around M-dwarf stars: Assessing the atmospheres and biospheres with a coupled atmosphere biogeochemical model
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.10616

The atmosphere of WASP-17b: Optical high-resolution transmission spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.10621

ACCESS: A featureless optical transmission spectrum for WASP-19b from Magellan/IMACS
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.10652

July 27, 2018 updates

Northrop CEO offers to link JWST profit to mission success
https://spacenews.com/northrop-ceo-offers-to-link-jwst-profit-to-mission-success/

A Survey and Analysis of College Students’ Understanding of Planet Formation Before Instruction
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2017.1815

Characterizing the atmosphere of Proxima b with a space-based mid-infrared nulling interferometer
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.09996

Transiting Exoplanet Monitoring Project (TEMP). I. Refined System Parameters and Transit Timing Variations of HAT-P-29b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.10107

Traces of exomoons in computed flux and polarization phase curves of starlight reflected by exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.10266