August 19, 2019 updates Posted on August 19, 2019June 28, 2020 by Doug Loss Absence of a thick atmosphere on the terrestrial exoplanet LHS 3844b https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1497-4 Evidence for an additional planet in the β Pictoris system https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-019-0857-1 Enabling a Near-Term Interstellar Probe with the Space Launch System https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2019-4048 The Dipole Drive: A New Concept in Space Propulsion https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2019-1122 An Examination of Warp Theory and Technology to Determine the State of the Art and Feasibility https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2019-4288 Development of a pulse-recharge magnetic nozzle for PuFF https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2019-4284 Numerical Simulation of Laser and Particle Coupled Beam Propagation https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2019-3803 Performance Analysis of a Combined Laser and Neutral Particle Beam Propulsion Concept Based on Self-Guiding https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2019-3800 High-resolution Imaging Transit Photometry of Kepler-13AB https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab2f7b A never-ending story in the sky: The secrets of chemical evolution https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1571064519300958 The SpaceDrive project – Thrust balance development and new measurements of the Mach-Effect and EMDrive Thrusters https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009457651832071X Simulations of starspot anomalies within TESS exoplanetary transit light curves — I. The detection limits of starspot anomalies in TESS light curves https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.05747 The Kepler Peas in a Pod Pattern is Astrophysical https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.05833 Inner Edge of Habitable Zones for Earth-sized Planets with Various Surface Water Distributions https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.05909 Habitability of galaxies and application of merger trees in astrobiology https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.05935 The Search for Living Worlds and the Connection to Our Cosmic Origins https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.05951 Astrometric planet search around southern ultracool dwarfs IV. Relative motion of the FORS2/VLT CCD chips https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.06056