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 12, 2018 updates

Secular transport during disk dispersal: the case of Kepler-419
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.03510

Carbon ‘fluffy’ aggregates produced by helium – hydrocarbon high pressure plasmas as analogs to interstellar dust
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.03698

Prospecting for exo-Earths in multiple planet systems with a gas giant
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.03730

Physical properties and optical-infrared transmission spectrum of the giant planet XO-1b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.03775

K2 targets observed with SPHERE/VLT. A M4-7 dwarf companion resolved around EPIC206011496
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.03848

3D Simulations of Planet Trapping at Disc-Cavity Boundaries
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.04013

Comparison of signal detectors for time domain radio SETI
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.03547

September 7, 2018 updates

Computational astrophysics for the future
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6406/979

Exoplanets in the Antarctic sky. II. 116 Transiting Exoplanet Candidates found by AST3-II (CHESPA) within the Southern CVZ of TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01789

Recent Developments at the Boquete Optical SETI Observatory and Owl Observatory
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01956

EPIC 211964830: A transiting multi-planet system in the Praesepe open cluster
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01968

Modeling the albedo of Earth-like magma ocean planets with H2O-CO2 atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.02036

September 6, 2018 updates

Success in critical communications tests for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/success-in-critical-communications-tests-for-nasas-james-webb-space-telescope

Kepler resumes operations despite malfunctioning thruster
https://spacenews.com/kepler-resumes-operations-despite-malfunctioning-thruster/

Exoplanet Science Strategy
https://www.nap.edu/catalog/25187/exoplanet-science-strategy

Habitable Climate Scenarios for Proxima Centauri b with a Dynamic Ocean
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2017.1760

Continuous reorientation of synchronous terrestrial planets controlled by mantle convection
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01150

Detecting isotopologues in exoplanet atmospheres using ground-based high-dispersion spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01156

Effects of non-Kozai mutual inclinations on two-planet system stability through all phases of stellar evolution
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01157

Radial velocities from the N2K Project: 6 new cold gas giant planets orbiting HD 55696, HD 98736, HD 148164, HD 203473, and HD 211810
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01228

KMT-2017-BLG-0165Lb: A Super-Neptune mass planet Orbiting a Sun-like Host Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01288

Idealized Wind-driven Ocean Circulations On Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01376

Differences in water vapor radiative transfer among 1D models can significantly affect the inner edge of the habitable zone
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01397

Abrupt climate transition of icy worlds from snowball to moist or runaway greenhouse
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01418

Magma oceans as a critical stage in the tectonic development of rocky planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01629