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 27, 2019 updates

Universe Sandbox ²
http://universesandbox.com/

OGLE-2015-BLG-1670Lb: A Cold Neptune beyond the Snow Line in the Provisional WFIRST Microlensing Survey Field
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab141b

The Transcension Hypothesis: Sufficiently Advanced Civilizations May Invariably Leave Our Universe, and Implications for METI and SETI.
https://www.accelerating.org/articles/transcensionhypothesis.html

Transiting exocomets detected in broadband light by TESS in the β Pictoris system
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2019/05/aa35552-19

Human Colonization of Other Worlds
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/futures/vol/110/suppl/C

AutoRegressive Planet Search: Application to the Kepler Mission
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.09852

Distinguishing Polar and Co-planar Circumbinary Exoplanets by Eclipsing Timing Variations
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.10179

May 24, 2019 updates

Exoplanet has rare earths
https://academic.oup.com/astrogeo/article-abstract/60/3/3.5/5497883

TESS spots first Earth-size exoplanet
https://academic.oup.com/astrogeo/article-abstract/60/3/3.7/5497886

ARIEL seeks AI help for exoplanets
https://academic.oup.com/astrogeo/article-abstract/60/3/3.9/5497890

No Evidence for Lunar Transit in New Analysis of Hubble Space Telescope Observations of the Kepler-1625 System
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab20c8

Enhanced Habitability on High Obliquity Bodies near the Outer Edge of the Habitable Zone of Sun-like Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.09398

May 23, 2019 updates

Simulated Phase-dependent Spectra of Terrestrial Aquaplanets in M Dwarf Systems
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab184a

Water delivery to the TRAPPIST-1 planets
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz1412/5497935

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs Detection of a mini-Neptune around LSPM J2116+0234 and refinement of orbital parameters of a super-Earth around GJ 686 (BD+18 3421)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.09075

The Effect of 3D Transport-Induced Disequilibrium Carbon Chemistry on the Atmospheric Structure and Phase Curves and Emission Spectra of Hot Jupiter HD 189733b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.02011

The Exoplanet Population Observation Simulator. II – Population Synthesis in the Era of Kepler
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.08804

May 21, 2019 updates

The Transiting Multi-planet System HD15337: Two Nearly Equal-mass Planets Straddling the Radius Gap
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332917583

Variability in the Atmosphere of the Hot Jupiter Kepler-76b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.07781

Exoplanetary Monte Carlo Radiative Transfer with Correlated-k I. Benchmarking Transit and Emission Observables
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.08132

OGLE-2018-BLG-0532Lb: Cold Neptune With Possible Jovian Sibling
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.08148