TITLE: Which forcings preserve (some) determinacy?
QUESTION [13 upvotes]: The question is exactly as in the title. I'm interested in general in all questions of the form "which forcings preserve property P?" for any P, but determinacy assumptions occupy a special place in my interests. More specifically, what results are known of the form "the forcings which preserve $\Gamma$-determinacy are exactly the following: . . ." for $\Gamma$ some reasonably natural pointclass? I am, for the purposes of this question, taking my base set to be $\mathbb{N}$ (that is, all payoff sets are subsets of $\mathbb{N}^\mathbb{N}$).
What I've been able to figure out so far (which is not very much):

Continuum-closed forcings preserve all determinacy assumptions. This is just because continuum-closed forcings add no new sets of reals - hence no new payoff sets, no new points in old payoff sets, and no new strategies.
Countably closed forcings preserve PD (projective determinacy). A countably closed forcing adds no new reals, and hence preserves the truth of analytic formulas with parameters (=definitions of projective sets), and since no new reals are added, no new strategies are added either. (As Andreas points out below, "countably closed" can be replaced by "adds no new reals.")
Countable closure is not enough to guarantee preservation of AD. The usual construction of a non-determined game can be reformulated as a countably closed forcing construction over a model of ZF; and even if the ground model satisfies AD, the generic extension will have a non-determined game.

I have tried to figure out whether either of these results reverse, but I've had no success here. The way I would attempt to phrase such a reversal would be something like the following:
(*) If $\mathbb{P}$ is some poset without property $P$, then there is a transitive model of set theory $W$ containing $\mathbb{P}$ and satisfying $\Gamma$-determinacy such that forcing with $\mathbb{P}$ over $W$ does not preserve $\Gamma$-determinacy.
[EDIT: As Francois points out, this isn't a good way to phrase a reversal statement, and it's not clear what a good way would be. So as an additional question, how can this idea be phrased in a non-silly way? Or is there good reason to believe that this can't be done?]
So, in addition to the main question, I have the following subquestions:
(i) Are any results along the lines of (*) known?
(ii) What methods seem like they could be useful for proving results along the lines of (*)?
(iii) For that matter, is my reasoning in the bullet points above correct? It seems straightforward enough, but I've been very wrong about these sorts of things before.
Thanks in advance!
[EDIT: I forgot to mention this initially, but for the purposes of this question I'm assuming the consistency of arbitrary large cardinals, although I am very interested in how much large cardinal strength any answers require.]

REPLY [6 votes]: Bumping to mention/advertise a recent development:
Today, William Chan and Stephen Jackson posted this paper to the arxiv. They proved that a broad class of forcings (under reasonable hypotheses) always kill determinacy. Specifically, they showed

Theorem 3.2: ZF + AD proves that every well-orderable forcing of cardinality $<\Theta$ forces $\neg$AD

and

Theorem 5.6: ZF + AD + "$\Theta$ is regular" proves that every nontrivial forcing which is a surjective image of $\mathbb{R}$ forces $\neg$AD, as does ZF + AD$^+$ + $\neg$AD$_\mathbb{R}$ + V=L$(\mathcal{P}(\mathbb{R}))$.


Note that we generally don't have $L(\mathbb{R})^V[g]=L(\mathbb{R})^{V[g]}$ (which would of course contradict these results).

Below I'll give a tissue-thin, hopefully-not-too-inaccurate description of their paper.

The arguments in the paper generalize the existing proofs of "determinacy-destruction" for a wide class of forcings under various assumptions (specifically: Cohen forcing, $Col(\omega_1,\omega_2)$, and $Col(\omega,\omega_1)$) from prior analysis by Ikegami and Trang:

Ikegami and Trang initiated the study of the preservation of AD under forcing. They showed that many forcings, such as Cohen forcing, can never preserve AD. They also showed that if one is working with natural
  models of AD, i.e. models satisfying ZF + AD+ + V = L$(\mathcal{P}(\mathbb{R}))$, then any forcing which preserve AD must
  preserve $\Theta$, where $\Theta$ is the supremum of the ordinals which are surjective images of $\mathbb{R}$. They also showed
  that the consistency of ZF + AD+ + $\Theta>\Theta_0$ implies the consistency of ZF + AD and there is a forcing which
  preserve AD and increases $\Theta$. Thus necessarily this forcing must disturb $\mathcal{P}(\mathbb{R})$ by adding a new set of reals

(Unfortunately, it looks like this work hasn't appeared yet, and Ikegami and Trang don't appear in the bibliography. My quick impression, though, is that the Chan/Jackson paper subsumes their results.)
Chan and Jackson isolate a common combinatorial aspect of these examples:  the ground club property at $\kappa$ (Definition 2.9), that any new club in $\kappa$ contains a ground club in $\kappa$. The ground club property provides a connection between Ramsey properties and reals (slightly rephrased):

Lemma 2.10: If $V[G]$ is a generic extension via a forcing with the ground club property at $\kappa$ and $V[G]\models\kappa\rightarrow(\kappa)^\omega_2$, then $\mathbb{R}^V=\mathbb{R}^{V[G]}$.

From this they quickly deduce Theorem 3.2 above. (A different argument, joint with Goldberg, improves the theorem by replacing "cardinality $<\Theta$" with "adds a real" - Corollary 3.5.)
This lemma is also fundamental to the proof of Theorem 5.6, but the argument there is much more complicated, and relies on an analysis of the behavior of $\Theta$ after forcing, building off of a previous result by Ikegami and Trang. In particular, they show that (in ZF + AD) any nontrivial forcing which is a surjective image of $\mathbb{R}$ and preserves AD must add a real (Fact 4.4), and so must preserve $\Theta$ (Lemma 4.3 - which surprised me quite a bit).

I hope I haven't misrepresented anything here; regardless of my understanding, this is certainly a very relevant paper.