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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April 29, 2019 updates

The Curious Case of KOI 4: Confirming Kepler’s First Exoplanet Detection
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab0e8e

An Eccentric Massive Jupiter Orbiting a Subgiant on a 9.5-day Period Discovered in the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite Full Frame Images
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab11d9

petitRADTRANS: a Python radiative transfer package for exoplanet characterization and retrieval
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.11504

The Role of N2 as a Geo-Biosignature for the Detection and Characterization of Earth-like Habitats
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.11716

Multiverse Predictions for Habitability: Fraction of Life that Develops Intelligence
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.11796

The coupling between inertial and rotational eigenmodes in planets with liquid cores
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.11837

TOI-216b and TOI-216c: Two warm, large exoplanets in or slightly wide of the 2:1 orbital resonance
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.11852

Loose Ends for the Exomoon Candidate Host Kepler-1625b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.11896

April 26, 2019 updates

The Distribution of Giant Exoplanets over True and Projective Masses: Accounting for Observational Selection
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S0038094619010027

Interaction of the Expanding Atmosphere with the Stellar Wind around Gliese 436b
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S0038094619020011

Detectable Molecular Features above Hydrocarbon Haze via Transmission Spectroscopy with JWST: Case Studies of GJ 1214b-, GJ 436b-, HD 97658b-, and Kepler-51b-like Planets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab16f6

Thermal torque effects on the migration of growing low-mass planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.11047

April 25, 2019 updates

Internal Structure and CO2 Reservoirs of Habitable Water-Worlds
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.10458

The Boundary Between Gas-rich and Gas-poor Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.10470

Atmospheres and UV Environments of Earth-like Planets Throughout Post-Main Sequence Evolution
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.10474

No Evidence for Lunar Transit in New Analysis of HST Observations of the Kepler-1625 System
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.10618

CoRoT: The First Space-Based Transit Survey to Explore the Close-in Planet Population
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.10793

April 24, 2019 updates

Theoretical Transmission Spectra of Exoplanet Atmospheres with Hydrocarbon Haze. II. Dependence on UV Irradiation Intensity, Metallicity, C/O Ratio, Eddy Diffusion Coefficient, and Temperature
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.09986

First radial velocity results from the MINiature Exoplanet Radial Velocity Array (MINERVA)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.09991

The Heavy-element Content Trend of Planets: A Tracer of their Formation Sites
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.10288

WASP-169, WASP-171, WASP-175 and WASP-182: One bloated sub-Saturn and three hot Jupiters discovered by WASP-south
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.10388

April 23, 2019 updates

Interstellar travels aboard radiation powered rockets
https://journals.aps.org/prd/accepted/fe07dQa3Ocd11b24316b3a9841e784ec625ddfacc

An Updated Model for Circumbinary Planets Orbiting the sdB Binary NY Virginis
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab1139

SETI in Russia, USSR and the post-Soviet space: A century of research
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576518318393

Exoplanet Reflected Light Spectroscopy with PICASO
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.09355

Vertical Tracer Mixing in Hot Jupiter Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.09676

Constraints on a Putative Planet Sculpting the V4046 Sagittarii Circumbinary Disk
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.09866