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 28, 2018 updates

Detectability of biosignatures in anoxic atmospheres with the James Webb Space Telescope: A TRAPPIST-1e case study
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.08377

Larger mutual inclinations for the shortest-period planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.08475

Planetary tidal interactions and the rotational evolution of low-mass stars. The Pleiades’ anomaly
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.08728

Role of gaseous giants in the dynamical evolution of terrestrial planets and water delivery in the habitable zone
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.08870

August 27, 2018 updates

The Equation of State of MH-III: a possible deep CH4 reservoir in Titan, Super-Titan exoplanets and moons
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.07925

Capture into first-order resonances and long-term stability of pairs of equal-mass planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.08059

EPIC211682544b: A 50-day period sub-Neptune with a mass measurement using HARPS-N
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.08187

Equation of state of SiC at extreme conditions: new insight into the interior of carbon rich exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.08201

Limitations of Chemical Propulsion for Interstellar Escape from Habitable Zones around Low-Mass Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.08141

Exploring the climate of Proxima B with the Met Office Unified Model
https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.08463

August 23, 2018 updates

Starspot Occultations in Infrared Transit Spectroscopy: The Case of WASP-52b
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aac6db

Comment on “Gravitational waves from ultra-short period exoplanets”
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.07055

Aliasing in the Radial Velocities of YZ Ceti: An Ultra-Short Period for YZ Ceti c?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.07059

Zodiacal Exoplanets in Time (ZEIT) VIII: A Two Planet System in Praesepe from K2 Campaign 16
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.07068

August 22, 2018 updates

NASA’s Exoplanet Excursions VR Experience
http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/vr

Detectability of Biosignatures in Anoxic Atmospheres with the James Webb Space Telescope: A TRAPPIST-1e Case Study
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aad564

Multiple Disk Gaps and Rings Generated by a Single Super-Earth: II. Spacings, Depths, and Number of Gaps, with Application to Real Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.06613

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs: Nine new double-line spectroscopic binary stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.06895

Hydrogen and Sodium Absorption in the Optical Transmission Spectrum of WASP-12b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.07010

A framework for planet detection with faint lightcurve echoes
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.07029

Inferring the Composition of Disintegrating Planet Interiors from Dust Tails with Future James Webb Space Telescope Observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.07043