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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June 29, 2018 updates

Single planet formation regime in the high-ionization environment: Possible origin of hot Jupiters and super-Earths
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674987116301591

The SOPHIE search for northern extrasolar planets XIII. Two planets around M-dwarfs Gl617A and Gl96
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.10958

Zonal-mean atmospheric dynamics of slowly-rotating terrestrial planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.10494

The Swarm Telescope Concept
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.10634

Stellar abundance of binary stars: their role in determining the formation location of super-Earths and ice giants
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.10683

June 26, 2018 updates

Can Deep Altruism Sustain Space Settlement?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.06132

Population Growth, Energy Use, and the Implications for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.06474

Catching a ride: using hypervelocity stars for interstellar and intergalactic travel
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325688096_Catching_a_ride_using_hypervelocity_stars_for_interstellar_and_intergalactic_travel

Characterization of Exoplanets and Stellar Systems with New Robots
https://search.proquest.com/openview/50d672c2d625abe881fcf193a4d8c8eb/1

An Excess of Jupiter Analogs in Super-Earth Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.08799

Empty gaps? Depleting annular regions in debris discs by secular resonance with a two-planet system
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.08802

Hill stability in the AMD framework
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.08869

Understanding Super-Earths with MINERVA-Australis at USQ’s Mount Kent Observatory
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.09282

The galactic rate of second and third generation disc and planet formation
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.09427