August 11, 2020 updates Posted on August 11, 2020 by Doug Loss Human Enhancements for Space Missions https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-42036-9 MCNP Design of Radiation Shielding for Pulsed Fusion Propulsion https://search.proquest.com/openview/017c5c64b6e4486f3a1ef8c4bbbf2aa2/ Orbital and Flight Stability Models for Breakthrough Starshot’s AO System https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/642118 A naked gas giant https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1184-2 Monte Carlo estimation of the probability of causal contacts between communicating civilizations https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/monte-carlo-estimation-of-the-probability-of-causal-contacts-between-communicating-civilizations/E5CDEC05285A00DBA41E0A80C0F5FA03 Agent-based modelling of interstellar contacts using rumour spread models https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/agentbased-modelling-of-interstellar-contacts-using-rumour-spread-models/F223CB0F8C8CAA46C612155255B6CD05 The Importance of Local Interstellar Conditions on the Galactic Cosmic-Ray Spectrum at Exoplanets https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aba7c8 Astraea: Predicting Long Rotation Periods with 27-Day Light Curves https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.03351 Water worlds in N-body simulations with fragmentation in systems without gaseous giants https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.03594 An Independent Analysis of the Six Recently Claimed Exomoon Candidates https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.03613 Non-detection of O2/O3 informs frequency of Earth-like planets with LUVOIR but not HabEx https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.03952 Probing the atmosphere of HD189733b with the Na I and K I lines https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.04044