July 17, 2018 updates Posted on July 17, 2018June 28, 2020 by Doug Loss RIT researcher develops new solar sailing technology for NASA http://www.rit.edu/news/story.php?id=67269&source=enewsletter The TOLIMAN space telescope https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2313269 Niche amplitude, tidal-locking and Fermi’s Paradox https://doi.org/10.1017/S1473550418000253 On the possibility of the Dyson spheres observable beyond the infrared spectrum https://doi.org/10.1017/S1473550418000174 The Hawaii Infrared Parallax Program. III. 2MASS J0249-0557 c: A Wide Planetary-mass Companion to a Low-mass Binary in the beta Pic Moving Group https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.05235 Kepler Object of Interest Network – I. First results combining ground- and space-based observations of Kepler systems with transit timing variations https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2018/07/aa32483-17/aa32483-17.html Photosynthesis on a planet orbiting an M dwarf: enhanced effectiveness during flares https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.05267 LASSO: Large Adaptive optics Survey for Substellar Objects using the new SAPHIRA detector on Robo-AO https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.05291 The Origin of Heavy Element Content Trend in Giant Planets via Core Accretion https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.05305 WFIRST Coronagraph Technology Requirements: Status Update and Systems Engineering Approach https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.05422 EPIC 220501947 b and K2-237 b: two transiting hot Jupiters https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.05865 The orbital architecture and debris disks of the HR 8799 planetary system https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.05898 Scientific Discovery with the James Webb Space Telescope https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.06941