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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September 5, 2018 updates

The influence of stellar flare on dynamical state of the atmosphere of exoplanet HD 209458b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.02271

The 0.8-4.5μm broadband transmission spectra of TRAPPIST-1 planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.01402

A Universal Nightside Temperature on Hot Jupiters due to Nocturnal Clouds
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.00002

Kepler-730b is probably a hot Jupiter with a small companion
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.00007

Stellar Obliquities & Planetary Alignments (SOPA) I. Spin-Orbit measurements of Three Transiting Hot Jupiters: WASP-72b, WASP-100b, & WASP-109b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.00314

The ice composition in the protoplanetary disk V883 Ori revealed by its stellar outburst
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.00353

NGTS-4b: A sub-Neptune Transiting in the Desert
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.00678

A Reassessment of Families of Solutions to the Puzzle of Boyajian’s Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.00693

High-Contrast study of the candidate planets and protoplanetary disk around HD~100546
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01001

HATS-60b – HATS-69b: Ten Transiting Planets From HATSouth
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01048

August 31, 2018 updates

Habitability of Exoplanet Waterworlds
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aad6e0

Ground- and Space-based Detection of the Thermal Emission Spectrum of the Transiting Hot Jupiter KELT-2Ab
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aad781

MOA-2015-BLG-337: A Planetary System with a Low-mass Brown Dwarf/Planetary Boundary Host, or a Brown Dwarf Binary
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aad5ee

A Search for Refraction in Kepler Photometry of Gas Giants
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/aadcb1

The Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat (SPARCS): A Mission to Understand the Impact of Stars in Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.09954

Dust Production and Depletion in Evolved Planetary Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.09967

Hydrohalite Salt-albedo Feedback Could Cool M-dwarf Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.09977

Retrieval of planetary and stellar properties in transmission spectroscopy with Aura
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.10017

A Quantitative Comparison of Exoplanet Catalogs
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.10236

Selective Aggregation Experiments on Planetesimal Formation and Mercury-Like Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.10246

The Near-Infrared Transmission Spectra of TRAPPIST-1 Planets b, c, d, e, f, and g and Stellar Contamination in Multi-Epoch Transit Spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.02086

August 30, 2018 updates

Influence of Stellar Metallicity on Occurrence Rates of Planets and Planetary Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.09451

Constraining the Time Interval for the Origin of Life on Earth
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.09460

Diverse protoplanetary disk morphology produced by a Jupiter-mass planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.09472

Investigating the possibility of reversing giant planet migration via gap edge illumination
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.09554

The effects of stellar activity on optical high-resolution exoplanet transmission spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.09558

Spitzer Phase Curves of KELT-1b and the Signatures of Nightside Clouds in Thermal Phase Observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.09575

Direct Imaging in Reflected Light: Characterization of Older, Temperate Exoplanets With 30-m Telescopes
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.09632

Threshold radii of volatile-rich planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.09872

Simulation and Validation of a SpaceWire On-Board Data-Handling Network for the PLATO Mission
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.09874

The PLATO Payload Data Processing System SpaceWire network
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.09878

Community targets for JWST’s early release science program: evaluation of WASP-63b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.07421