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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December 17, 2018 updates

Attitude Dynamics of Electric Sail from Multibody Perspective
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/1.G003625

Planetary Interiors As a Control for Habitability
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm18/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/417367

Catching a Planet: A Tidal Capture Origin for the Oxomoon Candidate Kepler 1625b I
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aaf3a7

Application of an evolution strategy in planetary ephemeris modeling
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0273117718307075

Qatar Exoplanet Survey: Qatar-7b — A Very Hot Jupiter Orbiting a Metal Rich F-Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.05601

Chaotic Tides in Migrating Gas Giants: Forming Hot and Transient Warm Jupiters via High-Eccentricity Migration
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.05618

HD219666b: a hot-Neptune from TESS Sector 1
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.05881

Ephemeris refinement of 21 Hot Jupiter exoplanets with high timing uncertainties
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.05882

Constraining the orbit of the planet-hosting binary τ Boötis: Clues about planetary formation and migration
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.05885

December 12, 2018 updates

Creating retrogradely orbiting planets by prograde stellar fly-bys
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.04104

Status of the MEDUSAE post-processing method to detect circumstellar objects in high-contrast multispectral images
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.04312

Listening to the gravitational wave sound of circumbinary exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.04330

Warm dust surface chemistry in protoplanetary disks. Formation of phyllosilicates
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.04357

Unique Science from a Coordinated LSST-WFIRST Survey of the Galactic Bulge
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.04445

An estimate of the k2 Love number of WASP-18Ab from its radial velocity measurements
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.04463

TESS exoplanet candidates validated with HARPS archival data. A massive Neptune around GJ\,143 and two Neptunes around HD\,23472
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.04501

Detectability of shape deformation in short-period exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.04538

December 11, 2018 updates

Stellar energetic particles in the magnetically turbulent habitable zones of TRAPPIST-1-like planetary systems
https://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~ffrasche/TRAPPIST.pdf

Helping astronauts breathe in space: with RUAG and micro-algae
http://spacenewsfeed.com/index.php/news/2439-helping-astronauts-breathe-in-space-with-ruag-and-micro-algae

Re-analyzing the Dynamical Stability of the HD 47366 Planetary System
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aaef32

Detecting circumbinary exoplanets and hierarchical stellar triples with the LISA gravitational radiation mission
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.03438

Exoplanet Clouds
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.03793

Cloud Atlas: Hubble Space Telescope Near-Infrared Spectral Library of Brown Dwarfs, Planetary-mass companions, and hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.03963