Author: Doug Loss

Are there any aliens out there? We are close to knowing for sure https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24332450-800-are-there-any-aliens-out-there-we-are-close-to-knowing-for-sure/ The Beam Balance – Measuring Binary Systems via Relativistic Beaming Signals from Stars and their Companions…

NGTS-6b: An Ultra Short Period Hot-Jupiter Orbiting an Old K Dwarf https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz2349/5555576 Life as-we-don’t-know-it: research repertoires and the emergence of astrobiology https://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/36070

New wavelength calibration of the HARPS spectrograph https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2019/09/aa33272-18/aa33272-18.html On the Transit Probability of the Habitable-zone Exoplanet GJ 357d https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab3e10 SOAR TESS Survey. I: Sculpting of TESS planetary systems by stellar…

1:1 orbital resonance of circumbinary planets https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.10395 Using Independent Component Analysis to detect exoplanet reflection spectrum from composite spectra of exoplanetary binary systems https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.10605 Exoplanet Atmosphere Forecast: Observers Should Expect…

Radial Velocity Discovery of an Eccentric Jovian World Orbiting at 18 au https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.09925 Extremophilic models for astrobiology: haloarchaeal survival strategies and pigments for remote sensing https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00792-019-01126-3 Telescope for NASA’s WFIRST…

The ExoTETHyS package: Tools for Exoplanetary Transits around Host Stars https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.09599 Vortex fiber nulling for exoplanet observations: conceptual design, theoretical performance, and initial scientific yield predictions https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.09780

Uniformly hot nightside temperatures on short-period gas giants https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-019-0859-z Detecting Planets from Direct-imaging Observations Using Common Spatial Pattern Filtering https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab3642 A Real-Time Search for Interstellar Impacts on the Moon https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.08543…

Study shows some exoplanets may have greater variety of life than exists on Earth https://phys.org/news/2019-08-exoplanets-greater-variety-life-earth.html The multiplicity distribution of Kepler’s exoplanets https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz2350/5553998 Lamarck and Panspermia – On the Efficient Spread…

Three Nearby K-Giants with Planets: Accurate Determination of Basic Parameters, Including an Analysis of Metallicity Based on Fe I Lines https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10511-019-09586-3 Calculating risk and payoff in planetary exploration and life…

Does the Evolution of Complex Life Depend on the Stellar Spectral Energy Distribution? https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2018.1946 Geoscience for Understanding Habitability in the Solar System and Beyond https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-019-0608-8 How Flow Isolation May Set…

DMPP-2: The radial velocity discovery of a giant planet orbiting a bright pulsating star http://physics.open.ac.uk/~ajnorton/papers/DMPP2.pdf Planet formation and stability in polar circumbinary discs https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2019/08/aa33976-18/aa33976-18.html OGLE-2018-BLG-1011Lb,c: Microlensing Planetary System with Two…

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…

Conceptual design ready for PLATO telescope simulator https://www.sron.nl/news/5016-voorlopig-ontwerp-klaar-voor-simulator-plato-telescoop REBOUNDx: A Library for Adding Conservative and Dissipative Forces to Otherwise Symplectic N-body Integrations https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.05634

Different Is More: The Value of Finding an Inhabited Planet That Is Far from Earth2.0 https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2018.1833 Assessing the Intrinsic Uncertainty and Structural Stability of Planetary Models: 1) Parameterized Thermal‐Tectonic History…

Telescopes in Hawaii reopen after deal with protesters https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/08/telescopes-hawaii-reopen-after-deal-protesters Follow That Planet! How Astronomers Chase New Worlds in TESS Data https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/follow-that-planet-how-astronomers-chase-new-worlds-in-tess-data Kepler Object of Interest Network III. Kepler-82f: a new…

Resonant Laplace-Lagrange theory for extrasolar systems in mean-motion resonance https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10569-019-9913-5 Biofluorescent Worlds I: Global Biological Fluorescence as a Biosignature https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.04089 Biofluorescent Worlds – II. Biological fluorescence induced by stellar UV…

Maximizing specific energy by breeding deuterium https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.00834 A Long-Term Vision for Space-Based Interferometry https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20190028276.pdf Phobos LIFE (Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment) https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2018.1904 Hidden Concepts in the History and Philosophy of Origins-of-Life…

Life May Be Common in the Milky Way, Thanks to Comet Swapping https://www.space.com/life-spread-around-galaxy-panspermia.html The Climates of Other Worlds: A Review of the Emerging Field of Exoplanet Climatology https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/ab2fe7 SiO2 –…

Intrinsic Climate Cooling https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2018.1942 Search for gas from the disintegrating rocky exoplanet K2-22b https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2019/08/aa34433-18/aa34433-18.html Pileups and Migration Rates for Planets in Low Mass Disks https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.02326 The Mid-InfraRed Exo-planet CLimate Explorer…

The “Terrascope”: On the Possibility of Using the Earth as an Atmospheric Lens https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.00490 ESA Voyage 2050 White Paper: Detecting life outside our solar system with a large high-contrast-imaging mission…

Parameterizing the Search Space of Starshade Fuel Costs for Optimal Observation Schedules https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.G003747 Space travel might fry your brain, causing permanent learning and memory problems https://phys.org/news/2019-08-space-brain-permanent-memory-problems.html New concerns for neurocognitive…

E.T. Hunt Shouldn’t Be Limited to Earth-like Life, Scientists Say https://www.space.com/alien-life-hunt-not-limited-earth-like-life.html TESS Science Conference I https://tsc.mit.edu/ TESS Science Conference I Live http://web.mit.edu/webcast/tess/sum19/ Community Involvement in the WFIRST Exoplanet Microlensing Survey…

Shining (Star)light on the Search for Life https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/shining-starlight-on-the-search-for-life The uncertainty of detecting planets https://phys.org/news/2019-08-uncertainty-planets.html Analytical Solution for the Three-Dimensional Motion of a Circumbinary Planet Around a Binary Star https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1384107619302003 An…

Interstellar Probe: Highway to the stars https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPSC-DPS2019/EPSC-DPS2019-1093-1.pdf A Conceptual Framework for Breakthrough Technologies https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/proceedings-of-the-international-conference-on-engineering-design/article/conceptual-framework-for-breakthrough-technologies/FAF1912C994C1ED73E834685BC94DFDC Preliminary Calculations of Particle Bombardment Physics due to Dust and Charged Particles in the Interstellar Medium…

Planetary system around the nearby M dwarf GJ 357 including a transiting, hot, Earth-sized planet optimal for atmospheric characterization https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.12818 Characterizing K2 Candidate Planetary Systems Orbiting Low-mass Stars. IV. Updated…

A Four-sector Simulated Data Set for the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab35e0 Two new HATNet hot Jupiters around A stars, and the first glimpse at the occurrence rate of hot…

Coronagraphic phase diversity through residual turbulence: performance study and experimental validation https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz1986/5538847 A Possible Scenario for the Random Transiter EPIC 249706694/HD 139139 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab346a Calibration of quasi-static aberrations in exoplanet direct-imaging…

Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometry: Applications for the In Situ Measurement of Nonvolatile Organics at Ocean Worlds https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2018.1961 NASA’s TESS Mission Completes First Year of Survey, Turns to Northern Sky https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/nasa-s-tess-mission-completes-first-year-of-survey-turns-to-northern-sky…

Obliquity Evolution of the Potentially Habitable Exoplanet Kepler-62f https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.08052 The GAPS Programme with HARPS-N at TNG XIX. Atmospheric Rossiter-McLaughlin effect and improved parameters of KELT-9b https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.10078 Revisiting Kepler-444 Part I.…

Deciphering Biosignatures in Planetary Contexts https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2018.1903 KELT-23Ab: A Hot Jupiter Transiting a Near-solar Twin Close to the TESS and JWST Continuous Viewing Zones https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab24c7 EXOFASTv2: A public, generalized, publication-quality exoplanet…

Entrapment of CO in CO2 ice https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.09011 Multiplanet systems in inviscid discs can avoid forming resonant chains https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.09313 Copernicanism and the Typicality in Time https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.08947

Magnetic field strengths of hot Jupiters from signals of star–planet interactions https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-019-0840-x Evolution of the obliquity of an exoplanet: a non-resonant case https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103518303634 Four Small Planets Buried in K2 Systems:…

Phytoclimatic mapping of exoplanets https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/phytoclimatic-mapping-of-exoplanets/68C46D4C29719FC6E7602B60DCD561FF How much of the Solar System should we leave as wilderness? https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576517318507 Enabling the next generation of scientific discoveries by embracing photonic technologies https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.07742 Architectures…

Disruptive Space Technologies and Innovations https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-22188-1 Breakthrough Listen launches new optical search with Arizona’s VERITAS telescope array https://breakthroughinitiatives.org/news/26 A Possible Advantage of Telescopes with a Noncircular Pupil https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab27c7 A Relationship…

Classification of solar sail attitude dynamics with and without angular momentum https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42064-018-0045-6 Nekhoroshev Estimates for the Survival Time of Tightly Packed Planetary Systems https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.06660 A Substellar Companion to a Hot…

HATS-54b–HATS-58Ab: Five New Transiting Hot Jupiters Including One with a Possible Temperate Companion https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab26bb Small Planets in the Galactic Context: Host Star Kinematics, Iron, and Alpha-element Enhancement https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab27c9 The Hubble…

Superfast Exoplanets and 9600 s https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11038-019-09526-3 Simulating Radial Velocity Observations of Trappist-1 with SPIRou https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.05710 Searching the Moon for Extrasolar Material and the Building Blocks of Extraterrestrial Life https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.05427 Do…

WAET: low-cost ground based telescopes for accelerated exoplanet direct imaging https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.04897 Hydrodynamical interaction of stellar and planetary winds: effects of charge exchange and radiation pressure on the observed Lyα absorption…

Language Development During Interstellar Travel http://people.ku.edu/~a326m085/LanguageDevelopmentInInterstellarTravel-0429.pdf Combining high contrast imaging and radial velocities to constrain the planetary architecture of nearby stars https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.04334 SETI in the Spatio-Temporal Survey Domain https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.04443 Diffuser-Assisted…

Expanding the Timeline for Earth’s Photosynthetic Red Edge Biosignature https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab2769 Transiting Quasites as a Possible Technosignature https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab2fdb Simulations of a High-Contrast Single-Mode Fiber Coronagraphic Multi-Object Spectrograph for Future Space Telescopes…

Evidence for 3 new multi-planet systems from TESS using a Bayesian N-body retrieval and machine learning https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.03377 Peering through SPHERE Images: A Glance at Contrast Limitations https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.03624 Signatures of the…

Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) In-Space Propulsion Demo Formulation https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20190026793.pdf Final Masses of Giant Planets III: Effect of Photoevaporation and a New Planetary Migration Model https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.02627 Envelopes of embedded super-Earths II.…

Fundamental Planetary Science: Physics, Chemistry and Habitability https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/fundamental-planetary-science/8FD11659BE64C35A172DF0432D7FCFA4 On the patterns observed in Kepler multi-planet systems https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.02074 Constraining the Radio Emission of TRAPPIST-1 https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.02112

STScI to design science operations for new panoramic space telescope https://spacenewsfeed.com/index.php/news/3411-stsci-to-design-science-operations-for-new-panoramic-space-telescope Exchange of material between solar systems by random stellar encounters https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/exchange-of-material-between-solar-systems-by-random-stellar-encounters/298F8D4D53D996C81091BE61B1438BA2 Biotechnology and the lifetime of technical civilizations https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/biotechnology-and-the-lifetime-of-technical-civilizations/53CC22A9D6F980FBFDC8D1C344F9651D…

Giant telescope set to rise on hallowed peak in Hawaii https://science.sciencemag.org/content/364/6447/1220 The Random Transiter — EPIC 249706694/HD 139139 https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.11268 Artificial gravity breaks free from science fiction https://phys.org/news/2019-07-artificial-gravity-free-science-fiction.html Artificial Gravity System…

Persistence of Technosignatures: A Comment on Lingam and Loeb https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2019.2052 Testing gravity with interstellar precursor missions https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.00006 The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs — Photospheric parameters of target…

A sub-Neptune exoplanet with a low-metallicity methane-depleted atmosphere and Mie-scattering clouds https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-019-0800-5 The natural history of ‘Oumuamua https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-019-0816-x An emission spectrum for WASP-121b measured across the 0.8– wavelength range using…

Ploonets: formation, evolution, and detectability of tidally detached exomoons https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.11400 Overcast on Osiris: 3D radiative-hydrodynamical simulations of a cloudy hot Jupiter using the parameterised, phase-equilibrium cloud formation code EddySed https://arxiv.org/list/astro-ph/new…

Main instrument for NASA’s WFIRST mission completes milestone review https://spacenewsfeed.com/index.php/news/3366-main-instrument-for-nasa-s-wfirst-mission-completes-milestone-review Constraints on HD 113337 fundamental parameters and planetary system: Combining long-base visible interferometry, disc imaging, and high-contrast imaging https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2019/07/aa35494-19 TESS…

On Alien Worlds, Extraterrestrials Could Be Spewing a Toxic, Smelly Gas. That’s How We Could Find Them. https://www.livescience.com/65791-alien-life-may-spew-toxic-gas.html Modelling galactic settlement https://phys.org/news/2019-06-galactic-settlement.html 10th Global Trajectory Optimisation Competition https://gtocx.jpl.nasa.gov/gtocx/ Three Red…

A super-Earth and sub-Neptune transiting the late-type M dwarf LP 791-18 https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.09267 TOI-150b and TOI-163b: two transiting hot Jupiters, one eccentric and one inflated, revealed by TESS near and at…

Do Active Galactic Nuclei Help or Hurt Life? https://aasnova.org/2019/05/29/do-active-galactic-nuclei-help-or-hurt-life/ Self-excited oscillation of spinning solar sails utilizing solar radiation pressure https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42064-018-0047-4 CO Detected in Ci Tau b: Hot Start Implied by…

Directly testing gravity with Proxima Centauri https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.08264 Survivability of radio-loud planetary cores orbiting white dwarfs https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.08273 Fast Computational Convolution Methods For Extended Source Effects In Microlensing Lightcurves https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.08378 Transit modelling…

Toward Autonomous Navigation of Spacecraft on the Observed Periodic Radiation of Pulsars http://matisaac.org/images/PaperPDF/AdAp_100126_2019052717111204142.pdf Towards a General Definition of Life https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11084-019-09578-5 Formation Design of Distributed Telescopes in Earth Orbit for Astrophysics…

Breakthrough Listen Publishes Most Comprehensive and Sensitive Search for Radio Technosignatures Ever Performed https://breakthroughinitiatives.org/news/25 Breakthrough Listen Open Data Archive http://seti.berkeley.edu/opendata The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: Public Data, Formats,…

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Two temperate Earth-mass planet candidates around Teegarden’s Star https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201935460 A pair of temperate sub-Neptunes transiting the star EPIC 212737443 https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz1641/5519234 Termination of…

Near-term interstellar probe: First step https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576519303650 How Flares regulate Atmospheric Losses from the TRAPPIST-1 planets https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019AAS…23411302D/abstract Starshade Would Take Formation Flying to Extremes https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/starshade-would-take-formation-flying-to-extremes How NASA’s Spitzer Has Stayed Alive…

The escape of hydrogen-rich atmosphere of exoplanet: Mass loss rates and the absorptions of stellar Lyman α https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.05520 The HD 181433 Planetary System: Dynamics and a New Orbital Solution https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.05525…

Mass Loss from the Exoplanet WASP-12b Inferred from Spitzer Phase Curves https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.04742 Disentangling Planets from Photoelectric Instability in Gas-Rich Optically Thin Dusty Disks https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.04816 The Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey:…

Revisiting the 16 Cygni planet host at unprecedented precision and exploring automated tools for precise abundances https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.04195 Growth Model Interpretation of Planet Size Distribution https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.04253 Frequency of planets orbiting M…

Constraining Exoplanet Metallicities and Aerosols with ARIEL: An Independent Study by the Contribution to ARIEL Spectroscopy of Exoplanets (CASE) Team https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.02820 ‘First light’ achieved on upgraded planet-finding instrument to search…

Mythic forecasts: researcher portrayals of extraterrestrial life discovery https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/mythic-forecasts-researcher-portrayals-of-extraterrestrial-life-discovery/19F4B57F48800A38D3092BBF1D57380F Flux and polarization signals of Earth-like exoplanets covered by sub-solar clouds https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10509-019-3588-y Interstellar dust in the solar system: model versus in…

Evolution of Novel Activation Functions in Neural Network Training with Applications to Classification of Exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.01975 Small Planets in the Galactic Context: Host Star Kinematics, Iron, and α Element Enhancement…

Mean motion resonances with nearby moons: an unlikely origin for the gaps observed in the ring around the exoplanet J1407b https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/486/2/1681/5366001 Stellar activity and planetary atmosphere evolution in tight binary…

Detection of ammonia on Pluto’s surface in a region of geologically recent tectonism https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/5/eaav5731 Surface properties of large TNOs: Expanding the study to longer wavelengths with the James Webb Space…

TechDemoSat-1 deploys drag sail http://spacenewsfeed.com/index.php/news/3254-techdemosat-1-deploys-drag-sail Two accreting protoplanets around the young star PDS 70 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-019-0780-5 Testing gravity with interstellar precursor missions https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz1508/5510438 Planet seeding through gas-assisted capture of interstellar objects…

Long Range Plasma Momentum Coupling by High Voltage Static Electric field and Deep Space Exploration 2 https://www.ann-geophys-discuss.net/angeo-2019-41/ The non-destructive separation of diverse astrobiologically relevant organic molecules by customizable capillary zone…

Instabilities in Multi-Planet Circumbinary Systems https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.12638 Reflected Light Phase Curves in the TESS Era https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.12662 Observing Isotopologue Bands in Terrestrial Exoplanet Atmospheres with the James Webb Space Telescope—Implications for Identifying…

Interstellar Workshop on 20-21 June 2019 https://www.esa.int/gsp/ACT/news/2019-05-08-interstellar_exploration_workshop.html A New View of Exoplanets With NASA’s Upcoming Webb Telescope https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/a-new-view-of-exoplanets-with-nasa-s-webb-telescope NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Emerges Successfully from Final Thermal Vacuum Test…

Brown Dwarf Atmospheres As The Potentially Most Detectable And Abundant Sites For Life https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.11410 The Chaotic Nature of TRAPPIST-1 Planetary Spin States https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.11419 Characterizing K2 Candidate Planetary Systems Orbiting Low-Mass…

Advanced Diffractive MetaFilm Sailcraft NIAC Phase I Final Report https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20190025234.pdf Nuclear microbomb propulsion for manned deep space exploration with return travel https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576519306101 Formation Design of Distributed Telescopes in Earth Orbit…

Universe Sandbox ² http://universesandbox.com/ OGLE-2015-BLG-1670Lb: A Cold Neptune beyond the Snow Line in the Provisional WFIRST Microlensing Survey Field https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab141b The Transcension Hypothesis: Sufficiently Advanced Civilizations May Invariably Leave Our…

Exoplanet has rare earths https://academic.oup.com/astrogeo/article-abstract/60/3/3.5/5497883 TESS spots first Earth-size exoplanet https://academic.oup.com/astrogeo/article-abstract/60/3/3.7/5497886 ARIEL seeks AI help for exoplanets https://academic.oup.com/astrogeo/article-abstract/60/3/3.9/5497890 No Evidence for Lunar Transit in New Analysis of Hubble Space Telescope…

Simulated Phase-dependent Spectra of Terrestrial Aquaplanets in M Dwarf Systems https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab184a Water delivery to the TRAPPIST-1 planets https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz1412/5497935 The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs Detection of a mini-Neptune…

Transit least-squares survey. II. Discovery and validation of 17 new sub- to super-Earth-sized planets in multi-planet systems from K2 https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/forth/aa35600-19.pdf Circumbinary discs with radiative cooling and embedded planets https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.08631

The Transiting Multi-planet System HD15337: Two Nearly Equal-mass Planets Straddling the Radius Gap https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332917583 Variability in the Atmosphere of the Hot Jupiter Kepler-76b https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.07781 Exoplanetary Monte Carlo Radiative Transfer with…

A Neutrino Beacon https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.05184 The SpaceDrive project – Thrust balance development and new measurements of the Mach-Effect and EMDrive Thrusters https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009457651832071X Stellar Flybys Interrupting Planet-Planet Scattering Generates Oort Planets https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.07044…

Modeling atmospheric escape and Mg II near-ultraviolet absorption of the highly irradiated hot Jupiter WASP-12b https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz1345/5490374 VPLanet: The Virtual Planet Simulator https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.06367 The Pressure and Temperature Limits of Likely Rocky…

Secondary eclipse of the hot Jupiter WASP-121b at 2 μm https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2019/05/aa34325-18 Evidence of Systematic Errors in Spitzer Microlens Parallax Measurements https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.05794 Optimizing Ground-based Observations of O2 in Earth Analogs https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.05862…

TESS Spots a Compact System of Super-Earths around the Naked-Eye Star HR 858 https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.05193 Validation of a Temperate Fourth Planet in the K2-133 Multi-planet System https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.05206 Discovery and Characterization of…

A Catalog of Smaller Planets https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11038-019-09523-6 A Multi-year Search for Transits of Proxima Centauri. II. No Evidence for Transit Events with Periods between 1 and 30 days https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab184f Discovery of…

S-type and P-type Habitable Zones of Stellar Binary Systems: Effect of the Planetary Mass https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab1ea3 Cheating the death of the sun by relativistic interstellar spaceflight https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576519305776 Is Earth special? https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825218306524…

The discovery and legacy of Kepler’s multi-transiting planetary systems https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1387647318300654 Global climate by Rossby number in the Solar system planets https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.03626 On the 3D secular dynamics of radial-velocity-detected planetary systems…

The Transiting Multi-planet System HD15337: Two Nearly Equal-mass Planets Straddling the Radius Gap https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab17d9 Habitable Megastructures Versus Habitable Planets https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332751346_Astrobiology_Newsletter_Vol_12_No_2 Future of Space Travel Through VARIES and VASIMR https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/FUTURE-OF-SPACE-TRAVEL-THROUGH-VARIES-AND-VASIMR-Salim-SarathRajN./a468da861ab604f59ecc198d135088bedc1837e8 Heliogyro…

Machine Learning Pipeline for Exoplanet Classification https://scholar.smu.edu/datasciencereview/vol2/iss1/9/ Beamed Launch Propulsion https://www.intechopen.com/online-first/beamed-launch-propulsion Synergies between space telescopes in the photometric characterization of the atmospheres of Hot Jupiters https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz1247/5487083 Extrasolar space exploration by…

Proxima Centauri b is not a transiting exoplanet https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.01336 Separating extended disc features from the protoplanet in PDS 70 using VLT/SINFONI https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.01860 A spectral survey of an ultra-hot Jupiter: Detection…

Direct Fusion Drive for Interstellar Exploration http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2019.72.37 Intermediate Beamers for Starshot: Probes to the Sun’s Inner Gravity Focus http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2019.72.51 Reality, The Breakthrough Initiatives and Prospects for Colonization of Space http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2019.72.56…

What makes a planet habitable? https://science.sciencemag.org/content/364/6439/434 He and H2 broadened propane cross sections in the 3 μm region at cold temperatures https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022407318308902 The tidal parameters of TRAPPIST-1 b and c…

Interaction of the Extended Envelope of a Hot Jupiter with a Narrow Coronal Mass Ejection https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063772919050032 Spectroscopic Mass and Host-star Metallicity Measurements for Newly Discovered Microlensing Planet OGLE-2018-BLG-0740Lb https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.00155 Debris…

HD 2685 b: a hot Jupiter orbiting an early F-type star detected by TESS https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2019/05/aa34640-18/aa34640-18.html Detection of Planetary and Stellar Companions to Neighboring Stars via a Combination of Radial Velocity…

The California-Kepler Survey. VIII. Eccentricities of Kepler Planets and Tentative Evidence of a High-metallicity Preference for Small Eccentric Planets https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab1009 The ExoEarth Yield Landscape for Future Direct Imaging Space Telescopes…

The Curious Case of KOI 4: Confirming Kepler’s First Exoplanet Detection https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab0e8e An Eccentric Massive Jupiter Orbiting a Subgiant on a 9.5-day Period Discovered in the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite…

The Distribution of Giant Exoplanets over True and Projective Masses: Accounting for Observational Selection https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S0038094619010027 Interaction of the Expanding Atmosphere with the Stellar Wind around Gliese 436b https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S0038094619020011 Detectable Molecular…

Internal Structure and CO2 Reservoirs of Habitable Water-Worlds https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.10458 The Boundary Between Gas-rich and Gas-poor Planets https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.10470 Atmospheres and UV Environments of Earth-like Planets Throughout Post-Main Sequence Evolution https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.10474 No…

Theoretical Transmission Spectra of Exoplanet Atmospheres with Hydrocarbon Haze. II. Dependence on UV Irradiation Intensity, Metallicity, C/O Ratio, Eddy Diffusion Coefficient, and Temperature https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.09986 First radial velocity results from the…

Interstellar travels aboard radiation powered rockets https://journals.aps.org/prd/accepted/fe07dQa3Ocd11b24316b3a9841e784ec625ddfacc An Updated Model for Circumbinary Planets Orbiting the sdB Binary NY Virginis https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab1139 SETI in Russia, USSR and the post-Soviet space: A century…

Performance of the Gemini Planet Imager Non-Redundant Mask and spectroscopy of two close-separation binaries HR 2690 and HD 142527 https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.09006 Unexpectedly strong effect of supergranulation on the detectability of Earth…

Blue, white, and red ocean planets – Simulations of orbital variations in flux and polarization colors https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.08922 Search for nearby Earth analogs I. 15 planet candidates found in PFS data…

Polynesian Civilization and the Future Colonization of Space https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2085&context=ccr The CORALIE survey for southern extrasolar planets XVIII Three new massive planets and two low mass brown dwarfs at separation larger…

Foundations of Interstellar Studies Workshop 2019 https://www.fisw.space/fisw-2019 Planetary Exploration, Horizon 2061 https://h2061-tlse.sciencesconf.org/ Discovery of a Third Transiting Planet in the Kepler-47 Circumbinary System https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.07255 Observation of a possible superflare on…

Dual Use Exoplanet Telescope (DUET) https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2019_Phase_I_Phase_II/duet/ Power for Interstellar Fly-by https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2019_Phase_I_Phase_II/Power_for_Interstellar_Fly_by/ Self-Guided Beamed Propulsion for Breakthrough Interstellar Missions https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2019_Phase_I_Phase_II/Self_Guided_Beamed_Propulsion/ Diffractive Lightsails https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2019_Phase_I_Phase_II/Diffractive_Lightsails/ On the feasibility of studying the exospheres of…

Oumuamua and Scout ET Probes https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.04914 Gravitat: Proposal for a Standard Design Vessel for Space Settlement https://space.nss.org/media/NSS-JOURNAL-Gravitat-Standard-Design-Vessel.pdf Searching for Atmospheric Bioindicators in Planets around the Two Nearby Stars, Proxima Centauri…

The NASA Twins Study: A multidimensional analysis of a year-long human spaceflight https://science.sciencemag.org/content/364/6436/eaau8650 Simulations of Water Vapor and Clouds on Rapidly Rotating and Tidally Locked Planets: A 3D Model Intercomparison…

Solar System Escape Mission with Solar Sail Spacecraft within a Framework of post-Newtonian Gravitational Theory http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2018.71.438 Do Alien Industrial Civilisations Exist? http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2018.71.443 Heat Transfer in Fusion Starship Radiation Shielding Systems…

Future Stellar Flybys of the Voyager and Pioneer Spacecraft https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab158e X-ray Studies of Exoplanets: A 2020 Decadal Survey White Paper https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.04320 Stellar activity and rotation of the planet host Kepler-17…

Lessons from early Earth: UV surface radiation should not limit the habitability of active M star systems https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/485/4/5598/5426502 Exoplanetary Atmospheres: Key Insights, Challenges and Prospects https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.03190 Orbital relaxation and excitation…

Efficient Searches for Galactic Stream Interstellar Asteroids https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330765570_Efficient_Searches_for_Galactic_Stream_Interstellar_Asteroids A Maximum Subsurface Biomass on Mars from Untapped Free Energy: CO and H2 as Potential Antibiosignatures https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2018.1835 Detectability of atmospheric features of…

The sub-Jupiter/Neptune desert of exoplanets: parameter dependent boundaries and implications on planet formation https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/article-abstract/485/1/L116/5427910 Evidence against non-gravitational acceleration of 1I/2017 U1 `Oumuamua https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.02218 Exciting mutual inclination in planetary systems with…

Nonthermal Emission from the Interaction of Magnetized Exoplanets with the Wind of Their Host Star https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab108d The vast potential of exoplanet satellites for high‐energy astrophysics https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.201913615 A possibly inflated planet…

Theoretical Reflectance Spectra of Earth-Like Planets through Their Evolutions: Impact of Clouds on the Detectability of Oxygen, Water, and Methane with Future Direct Imaging Missions https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.01019 Extreme hydrodynamic losses of…

Solving the Fermi paradox without assumptions https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.11599 Optical Compressive Imaging Technologies for Space Big Data https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8673610 Exploring A Photospheric Radius Correction to Model Secondary Eclipse Spectra for Transiting Exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.00025…

Terraforming: synthetic biology’s final frontier https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00203-019-01651-x Exoplanet Satellite Ready http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Cheops/Exoplanet_satellite_ready TESS Photometric Mapping of a Terrestrial Planet in the Habitable Zone: Detection of Clouds, Oceans, and Continents (an April Fools…

WFIRST faces funding crunch https://spacenews.com/wfirst-faces-funding-crunch/ Close binary encounters bring life https://academic.oup.com/astrogeo/article-abstract/60/2/2.7/5380742 New Avenues for Thermal Inversions in hot Jupiters https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.11603 The HADES RV Programme with HARPS-N at TNG XI. GJ…

JWST review board raises schedule concerns https://spacenews.com/jwst-review-board-raises-schedule-concerns/ Webb IRB Assessment with NASA Response https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/webb_irb_assessment_with_nasa_response_03.01.19.pdf James Webb Space Telescope: Opportunity Nears to Provide Additional Assurance That Project Can Meet New Cost…

First direct detection of an exoplanet by optical interferometry https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2019/03/aa35253-19/aa35253-19.html Identifying Exoplanets with Deep Learning II: Two New Super-Earths Uncovered by a Neural Network in K2 Data https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.10507 Probing Unseen…

Physical constraints for the evolution of life on exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.02007 TESS Habitable Zone Star Catalog https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab0e8d Observing exoplanets in the near-infrared from a high altitude balloon platform https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.09718 Active Galactic…

Looking for Lurkers https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.09582 HD 213885b: A transiting 1-day-period super-Earth with an Earth-like composition around a bright (V=7.9) star unveiled by TESS https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.07694 Terran World Spectral Simulator https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ab0480 Understanding Exoplanet…

Trivalent Phosphorus and Phosphines as Components of Biochemistry in Anoxic Environments https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2018.1958 Mapping out the time-evolution of exoplanet processes https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.09110 Atmospheric variability driven by radiative cloud feedback in brown dwarfs…

An Astrobiology Strategy for the Search for Life in the Universe https://www.nap.edu/catalog/25252/an-astrobiology-strategy-for-the-search-for-life-in-the-universe Understanding Gaia https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-11449-7 Testing the value of artificial gravity for astronaut health https://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Testing_the_value_of_artificial_gravity_for_astronaut_health Measurement of the Free-Floating Planet…

Engaging Citizen Scientists to Keep Transit Times Fresh and Ensure the Efficient Use of Transiting Exoplanet Characterization Missions https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.07716 WASP-180Ab: Doppler tomography of an hot Jupiter orbiting the primary star…

Rethinking CO Antibiosignatures in the Search for Life Beyond the Solar System https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab05e1 Transit Lyman-α signatures of terrestrial planets in the habitable zones of M dwarfs https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2019/03/aa33941-18/aa33941-18.html The Asteroseismic Target…

Solving Fermi’s Paradox https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/physics/computational-science-and-modelling/solving-fermis-paradox Era of Big NASA Space Telescopes May Be Ending https://www.space.com/era-big-nasa-space-telescopes-ending.html Exoplanets apsidal precession and analysis on their eccentricities https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10509-019-3516-1 Planet pairs may have tilted poles https://academic.oup.com/astrogeo/article-abstract/60/2/2.7/5380731…

Photochemistry in Hot H2-dominated Exoplanet Atmospheres https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aaf79f Towards an all-sky radio telescope for SETI https://academic.oup.com/astrogeo/article-abstract/60/2/2.22/5380749 New photometric analysis of five exoplanets: CoRoT-2b, HAT-P-12b, TrES-2b, WASP-12b and WASP-52b https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz747/5380787 Stellar Influence…

Detection and characterization of an ultra-dense sub-Neptunian planet orbiting the Sun-like star K2-292 https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2019/03/aa34952-18/aa34952-18.html Carrington-class Events as a Great Filter for Electronic Civilizations in the Drake Equation https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ab028e Update of…

NASA criticized for proposed budget cuts https://spacenews.com/nasa-criticized-for-proposed-budget-cuts/ The Great Colonization Debate https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/futures/articles-in-press Tides between the TRAPPIST-1 planets https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.04501 Realistic On-The-Fly Outcomes of Planetary Collisions: Machine Learning Applied to Simulations of…

Monitoring of the D Doublet of Neutral Sodium during Transits of Two “Evaporating” Planets https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz693/5372460 Op-ed | The rocky landscape for astrophysics https://spacenews.com/the-rocky-landscape-for-astrophysics/ The Space Astrophysics Landscape for the 2020s…

The Halo Drive: Fuel-free Relativistic Propulsion of Large Masses via Recycled Boomerang Photons https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.03423 Quantitative evaluation of a dual-band spacecraft communication concept for a 1000 AU interstellar pathfinder mission https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/10910/1091003/Quantitative-evaluation-of-a-dual-band-spacecraft-communication-concept-for/10.1117/12.2513937.short…

“Goldilocks” Stars May Be “Just Right” for Finding Habitable Worlds https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/k-star-advantage The K Dwarf Advantage for Biosignatures on Directly Imaged Exoplanets https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab0651 A Jovian planet in an eccentric 11.5 day…

Enlarging habitable zones around binary stars in hostile environments https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.01995 The Metallicity-Period-Mass Diagram of low-mass exoplanets https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz664/5371168 Planetary Magnetism as a Parameter in Exoplanet Habitability https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz667/5371175 Formation of short-period planets…

The Curious Case of KOI 4: Confirming Kepler’s First Exoplanet Detection http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~dhuber/docs/kepler1658-accepted.pdf Spitzer Detection of the Transiting Jupiter-analog Exoplanet Kepler-167e https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.01478 Self-Assembling Ice Membranes on Europa: Brinicle Properties, Field Examples,…

Exoplanet Exploration Program Science Plan Appendix https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/system/internal_resources/details/original/1089_ExEP_SciencePlanAppendix_v1.2.pdf Astrobiology: From the Origins of Life to the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-13-3639-3 Obliquity-driven sculpting of exoplanetary systems https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.01386 Erratum: A library of…

Handbook of Astrobiology https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781351661119 Detection and Doppler monitoring of K2-285 (EPIC 246471491), a system of four transiting planets smaller than Neptune https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2019/03/aa34001-18/aa34001-18.html KELT-23b: A Hot Jupiter Transiting a Near-Solar Twin…

Activity and telluric contamination in HARPS observations of Alpha Centauri B https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.10711 The 2L1S/1L2S Degeneracy for Two Microlensing Planet Candidates Discovered by the KMTNet Survey in 2017 https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.10945

University research center will search for extraterrestrial intelligence https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/02/university-research-center-will-search-extraterrestrial-intelligence The Penn State Extraterrestrial Intelligence Center http://pseti.psu.edu/ A Search for Technosignatures from TRAPPIST-1, LHS 1140, and 10 Planetary Systems in the…

Can Planets Exist in the Habitable Zone of 55~Cancri? https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.09613 A warm Jupiter-sized planet transiting the pre-main sequence star V1298 Tau https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.09670 TOI-150: A transiting hot Jupiter in the TESS…

Constraining the Thermal Properties of Planetary Surfaces using Machine Learning: Application to Airless Bodies https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.08631 Formation of planetary systems by pebble accretion and migration: How the radial pebble flux determines…

Transit modelling of selected Kepler systems https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10509-019-3525-0 Exoplanet Terra Incognita https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-62849-3_20 Exoplanetary Biosignatures for Astrobiology https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-96175-0_11 Space Test Program-Houston 6-X-Ray Communication (STP-H6-XCOM) – 01.16.19 https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/3002.html Shallow-water Magnetohydrodynamics for Westward Hotspots…

This is a special edition of the interstellar updates, due to the American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2018 abstracts just having come to our attention. Interstellar Probe: A New Mission…

Diving into Exoplanets: Are Water Seas the Most Common? https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2017.1720 Hachimoji DNA and RNA: A genetic system with eight building blocks http://science.sciencemag.org/content/363/6429/884 Ultra-Stable Environment Control for the NEID Spectrometer: Design…

Two new free-floating or wide-orbit planets from microlensing https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2019/02/aa34557-18/aa34557-18.html A highly structured disk around the planet host PDS 70 revealed by high-angular resolution observations with ALMA https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.07639 Chemical connections between…

Breakthrough Propulsion Study https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2019/02/15/breakthrough-propulsion-study/ Stellar spectroscopy in the near-infrared with a laser frequency comb https://www.osapublishing.org/optica/abstract.cfm?uri=optica-6-2-233 Multiverse Predictions for Habitability: Number of Habitable Planets https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.06784 Tropical and Extratropical General Circulation with…

Project Lyra: Catching 1I/’Oumuamua – Mission Opportunities After 2024 https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04935 HADES RV program with HARPS-N at the TNG IX. A super-Earth around the M dwarf Gl 686 https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2019/02/aa34868-18/aa34868-18.html The SOPHIE…

Introduction to the SETI program, criticalities and future strategies http://sait.oats.inaf.it/MSAIt890318/PDF/2018MmSAI..89..316M.pdf Water MASER emission: a powerful diagnostic tool for the search of extra-terrestrial life http://sait.oats.inaf.it/MSAIt890318/PDF/2018MmSAI..89..413C.pdf Cargoism and Scientific Justification in the…

K2-291b: A Rocky Super-Earth in a 2.2 day Orbit https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aafe83 Dust unveils the formation of a mini-Neptune planet in a protoplanetary ring https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.05143 The Origin of Kepler-419b: A Path to…

Earth First Origins Project Seeks To Replicate the Cradle of Life https://news.rpi.edu/content/2019/02/14/earth-first-origins-project-seeks-replicate-cradle-life The survivability of planetary systems in young and dense star clusters https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04652 A limited habitable zone for complex…

K2-290: a warm Jupiter and a mini-Neptune in a triple-star system https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.03716 The DECam Minute Cadence Survey II: 49 Variables but No Planetary Transits of a White Dwarf https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04075 SPHERE:…

NASA minimizes threat of JWST delay from shutdown https://spacenews.com/nasa-minimizes-threat-of-jwst-delay-from-shutdown/ New NASA Team Tackles Next Challenges in Detecting Life Beyond Earth https://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/new-nasa-team-tackles-next-challenges-in-detecting-life-beyond-earth The Network for Life Detection https://www.nfold.org/ The Laboratory for…

Exo-Astrosociology and the Search for Technosignatures http://www.astrosociology.org/Library/PDF/JPass–Exo-AstrosociologyAndTechnosignatures.pdf Some Assembly Required: Giant Next-Generation Space Telescopes Could Be Built Off Earth https://www.space.com/43273-building-big-space-observatories-off-earth.html Is Earth special? https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825218306524 Speeding past planets? Asteroids radiatively propelled…

NASA’s Webb Is Sound After Completing Critical Milestones https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12552 Free Vibration and Buckling of a Stripped Solar Sail https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/full/10.2514/1.A34342 Machine Vision and Deep Learning for Classification of Radio SETI Signals…

Comment on “the ultimate limits of the relativistic rocket equation. The Planck photon rocket” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576518317818 Interlocking, reconfigurable, reconstitutable, reformable cell-based system with nested ring structures https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/64/69/b3/34ca612390a3af/US20190023419A1.pdf Interlocking, reconfigurable, reconstitutable, reformable…

Occurrence Rates of Planets orbiting FGK Stars: Combining Kepler DR25, Gaia DR2 and Bayesian Inference https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.01417 The Ability of Significant Tidal Stress to Initiate Plate Tectonics https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.09898

Two Jovian Planets around the Giant Star HD 202696: A Growing Population of Packed Massive Planetary Pairs around Massive Stars? https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aafa11 Surface tide on a rapidly rotating body https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.00859 Preliminary…

Materials Design for Heat Exchangers of Interstellar Solar Thermal Propulsion Missions at Three Solar Radii https://search.proquest.com/openview/0c0aeed6daf64a02eed899b6713a43ea/ An Upper Limit on He Absorption in GJ 1214b https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab01b8 Hot Exoplanet Atmospheres Resolved…

Rotational Light Curves of Jupiter from Ultraviolet to Mid-infrared and Implications for Brown Dwarfs and Exoplanets https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aafba7 Hundreds More Planets Await Discovery in Kepler’s K2 Data Set https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab01c6 S-Type and…

Theoretical models of the protostellar disks of AS 209 and HL Tau presently forming in-situ planets https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.10642 Tidally-Distorted, Iron-Enhanced Exoplanets Closely Orbiting Their Stars https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.10666 High Resolution Spectroscopy and High…

Effects of a fully 3D atmospheric structure on exoplanet transmission spectra: retrieval biases due to day-night temperature gradients https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.09932 An Eccentric Massive Jupiter Orbiting a Sub-Giant on a 9.5 Day…

The future of space-based astronomy may depend on two large ground-based telescopes https://spacenews.com/the-future-of-space-based-astronomy-may-depend-on-two-large-ground-based-telescopes/ World’s largest digital sky survey issues biggest astronomical data release ever https://spacenewsfeed.com/index.php/news/2610-world-s-largest-digital-sky-survey-issues-biggest-astronomical-data-release-ever The Netherlands will partner to…

The Social Dynamics of Science, Exoplanetary Environments and the Drake Equation https://www.jbis.org.uk/paper/2018.71.65 Triple-Lens Gravitational Microlensing: Critical Curves for Arbitrary Spatial Configuration https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.08610 Sparkling nights and very hot days on WASP-18b:…

The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets – XLIV. Eight HARPS multi-planet systems hosting 20 super-Earth and Neptune-mass companions https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2019/02/aa31173-17/aa31173-17.html High-resolution confirmation of an extended helium atmosphere around WASP-107b https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.08073…

Correction to: Effect of the rotation and tidal dissipation history of stars on the evolution of close-in planets https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10569-018-9880-2 The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information are…

Blobs, spiral arms, and a possible planet around HD 169142 https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.06555 A Multi-Year Search For Transits Of Proxima Centauri. II: No Evidence For Transit Events With Periods Between 1-30 Days…

New Development of Space Propulsion Theory-Breakthrough of Conventional Propulsion Technology https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yoshinari_Minami/publication/330184698_NEW_DEVELOPMENT_OF_SPACE_PROPULSION_THEORY-BREAKTHROUGH_OF_CONVENTIONAL_PROPULSION_TECHNOLOGY/ Towards Multi-Disciplinary SETI Research https://www.jacquesvallee.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Towards_Multi-disciplinary_SETI_Research.pdf Searching for exoplanets with HEPS: I. detection probability of Earth-like planets in multiple systems…

Ocean Dynamics and the Inner Edge of the Habitable Zone for Tidally Locked Terrestrial Planets http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aaf1a8 Transits of Inclined Exomoons – Hide and Seek and an Application to Kepler-1625 https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.06366

House spending bill fires warning shot at JWST https://spacenews.com/house-spending-bill-fires-warning-shot-at-jwst/ A Wide Orbit Exoplanet OGLE-2012-BLG-0838Lb https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.05466 HARPS-N radial velocities confirm the low densities of the Kepler-9 planets https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.05471 Active Optics in…

A Model-independent Mass and Moderate Eccentricity for β Pic b http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aafb31 Formation of Hot Jupiters through Secular Chaos and Dynamical Tides https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.05006 AutoRegressive Planet Search: Methodology https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.05116 HADES RV programme…

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Technosearch https://technosearch.seti.org/ Post-conjunction detection of β Pictoris b with VLT/SPHERE https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2019/01/aa34302-18/aa34302-18.html Extrasolar planets and brown dwarfs around AF-type stars X. The SOPHIE sample: combining the SOPHIE and HARPS surveys to…

A Wild ‘Interstellar Probe’ Mission Idea Is Gaining Momentum https://www.space.com/42935-nasa-interstellar-probe-mission-idea.html Signs of life on a global scale: Earth as a laboratory for exoplanet biosignatures http://www.portlandpresspublishing.com/sites/default/files/biochemist/Biochemist%20Space%20issue%20Dec%202018/BioDEC18_exoplanet%20biosignatures%20pg%2022.pdf The fate of planetesimal discs…

Young planets orbiting red dwarfs may lack ingredients for life http://spacenewsfeed.com/index.php/news/2521-young-planets-orbiting-red-dwarfs-may-lack-ingredients-for-life NASA’s TESS Rounds Up its First Planets, Snares Far-flung Supernovae https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1542/nasas-tess-rounds-up-its-first-planets-snares-far-flung-supernovae/ Why planetary and exoplanetary protection differ: The case…

Ultrahigh Acceleration Neutral Particle Beamer: Concept, Costs and Realities https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2019/01/07/ultrahigh-acceleration-neutral-particle-beamer-concept-costs-and-realities/ Charge generating devices and methods of making and use thereof https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/71/3f/3f/4710d6cb02da8d/US20180372891A1.pdf Scientists pleased with TESS exoplanet mission https://spacenews.com/scientists-pleased-with-tess-exoplanet-mission/ Comparing Non-Redundant…

Astrosociology and the Search for Technosignatures https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2019-1517 The Dipole Drive: A New Concept in Space Propulsion https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2019-1122 Dynamics and Estimation of Origami-Inspired Deployable Space Structures: A Review https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2019-0480 Assuring Spacecraft…

Ultrahigh Acceleration Neutral Particle Beam-Driven Sails https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2019/01/03/ultrahigh-acceleration-neutral-particle-beam-driven-sails/ Precovery of Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite Single Transits with Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aaf23c VLT/SPHERE Multiwavelength High-contrast Imaging of the HD 115600 Debris…

Lethal Radiation from Nearby Supernovae Helps Explain the Small Cosmological Constant https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2018.1895 The Longest Period TESS Planet Yet: A Sub-Neptune Transiting A Bright, Nearby K Dwarf Star https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.00051 Accounting for…

Dust bombardment can explain the extremely elongated shape of 1I/’Oumuamua and the lack of interstellar objects https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.11334 Modular Inflatable Composites for Space Telescopes https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.11667 Microlensing Results Challenge the Core Accretion…

Pulsed Fission-Fusion (PuFF) –Phase I Report https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20180008679.pdf Propellant-less Propulsion from Quantised Inertia https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329754104_Propellant-less_Propulsion_from_Quantised_Inertia Overstable Convective Modes of Rotating Hot Jupiters https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.10598 Secondary eclipses of WASP-18b — Near Infrared observations with…

Computer Simulations of Space Societies https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319905594 What We Know About Extraterrestrial Intelligence https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319444550 The Ethics of Space Exploration https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319398259 Dissent, Revolution and Liberty Beyond Earth https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319293479 Human Governance Beyond Earth…

Cold Hibernated Elastic Memory Structure: Self-Deployable Technology and Its Applications https://www.crcpress.com/Cold-Hibernated-Elastic-Memory-Structure-Self-Deployable-Technology-and/Sokolowski/p/book/9780429425950 Exoplanet Imaging from Space: EXCEDE & Expectations https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2018/12/26/exoplanet-imaging-from-space-excede-expectations/ HATS-71b: A giant planet transiting an M3 dwarf star in TESS…

The Lucky Earth Hypothesis http://geopolicraticus.tumblr.com/post/181412091932/the-lucky-earth-hypothesis

Astrobiology and Astrotheology in Creative Mutual Interaction https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/9789813235045_0002

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An Astrobiology Strategy for the Search for Life in the Universe https://www.nap.edu/catalog/25252/an-astrobiology-strategy-for-the-search-for-life-in-the-universe Bright Opportunities for Atmospheric Characterization of Small Planets: Masses and Radii of K2-3 b, c, d and GJ3470…

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Climate Sensitivity to Carbon Dioxide and the Moist Greenhouse Threshold of Earth-like Planets under an Increasing Solar Forcing http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aaea5f A search for accreting young companions embedded in circumstellar disks: High-contrast…

Biological Homochirality on the Earth, or in the Universe? A Selective Review https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/10/12/749 Device providing non-inertial propulsion while conserving propellant mass and method therefor https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/fb/2d/3a/21d91180dc54e8/US20180347550A1.pdf Relative Likelihood of Success in…

Attitude Dynamics of Electric Sail from Multibody Perspective https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/1.G003625 Planetary Interiors As a Control for Habitability https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm18/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/417367 Catching a Planet: A Tidal Capture Origin for the Oxomoon Candidate Kepler 1625b…

Starry eyes http://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6420/1230 Hubble PanCET: an extended upper atmosphere of neutral hydrogen around the warm Neptune GJ 3470b https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.05119 Shock-Generating Planetesimals Perturbed by a Giant Planet in a Gas Disk…

In Search of Missing Worlds, Hubble Finds a Fast Evaporating Exoplanet https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/in-search-of-missing-worlds-hubble-finds-a-fast-evaporating-exoplanet Dynamics of multiple protoplanets embedded in gas and pebble discs and its dependence on Σ and ν parameters…

Creating retrogradely orbiting planets by prograde stellar fly-bys https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.04104 Status of the MEDUSAE post-processing method to detect circumstellar objects in high-contrast multispectral images https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.04312 Listening to the gravitational wave sound…

Stellar energetic particles in the magnetically turbulent habitable zones of TRAPPIST-1-like planetary systems https://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~ffrasche/TRAPPIST.pdf Helping astronauts breathe in space: with RUAG and micro-algae http://spacenewsfeed.com/index.php/news/2439-helping-astronauts-breathe-in-space-with-ruag-and-micro-algae Re-analyzing the Dynamical Stability of the…

A Rapid, Low-Cost Approach to Permanently Extend Life Beyond Earth https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20180007936.pdf Laboratory for Agnostic Biosignatures https://www.agnosticbiosignatures.org/ Pulsed Magnetic Nozzle for Fusion Propulsion http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2018.71.119 Fission Fragment Rocket: Fuel Production and Structural…

Host Stars and their Effects on Exoplanet Atmospheres https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783030114510 Spectrally resolved helium absorption from the extended atmosphere of a warm Neptune-mass exoplanet https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.02189 Ground-based detection of an extended helium atmosphere…

First Light for SPECULOOS https://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso1839a/ The Orbital Period Prior for Single Transits http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/aaf50c qpower2 – a fast and accurate algorithm for the computation of exoplanet transit light curves with the…

Orbit Orientation of the Planet in τ Boo (HD 120136) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1990341318040090 These dusty young stars are changing the rules of planet-building https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07591-8 A novel mixture model using the multivariate normal…

Detection of Helium in the Atmosphere of the Exo-Neptune HAT-P-11b http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aaf166/meta Imaging and Characterization of Extrasolar Planets with the Next Generation of Space Telescopes https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/8/12/442 Minimum Viable Human Population with…

The Delivery of Water to Protoplanets, Planets and Satellites https://www.springer.com/us/book/9789402416275 Handbook of Exoplanets https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319553320 Review of Solar Magnetic Sailing Configurations for Space Travel https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42423-018-0022-4 Single conjugate adaptive optics for the…

Forward modelling and retrievals with PLATON, a fast open source tool https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.11761 Atmospheric Mass Loss from High Velocity Giant Impacts https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.11778 Connecting Giant Planet Atmosphere and Interior Modeling: Constraints on…

Philanthropic Space Science: The Breakthrough Initiatives https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/space.2018.0027 SOPHIE velocimetry of Kepler transit candidates. XIX. The new transiting temperate giant planet KOI-3680b https://www.aanda.org/component/article?access=doi&doi=10.1051/0004-6361/201834333 Using predictive Bayesian Monte Carlo- Markov Chain methods…

Lifetimes and Emergence/Decay Rates of Star Spots on Solar-type Stars Estimated by Kepler Data in Comparison with Those of Sunspots https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.10782 The distribution of heavy-elements in giant protoplanetary atmospheres: the…

Six Strange Facts About `Oumuamua https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.08832 NASA’s Webb Takes a Carriage Ride to Testing Chambers https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2018/nasas-webb-takes-a-carriage-ride-to-testing-chambers A Zooniverse Project to Classify Periodic Variable Stars from SuperWASP http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/aaf291 APPHi: An automated…

Life in the Universe: Expectations and Constraints https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-97658-7 Exoplanet Mission Launch Slot Announced http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Exoplanet_mission_launch_slot_announced Sixty Validated Planets from K2 Campaigns 5–8 http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aae778 Extreme-ultraviolet Radiation from A-stars: Implications for Ultra-hot Jupiters…

Electrical conductivity and magnetic dynamos in magma oceans of Super-Earths https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-06432-6 Modeling microlensing events with MulensModel https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221313371830026X

TESS’s first planet: A super-Earth transiting the naked-eye star π Mensae https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2018/11/aa34289-18/aa34289-18.html Climate sensitivity to ozone and its relevance on the habitability of Earth-like planets https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103517307820 A Maximum Subsurface Biomass…

Senator seeks assurances on JWST and WFIRST funding https://spacenews.com/senator-seeks-assurances-on-jwst-and-wfirst-funding/ Two Terrestrial Planet Families With Different Origins https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.07919 Revised estimates of the frequency of Earth-like planets in the Kepler field https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.08249…

Handbook of Exoplanets https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-3-319-55333-7 AAVSO to archive amateur astronomer exoplanet data https://www.aavso.org/exoplanet-data Welcome to the AAVSO Exoplanet Section https://www.aavso.org/exoplanet-section Data calibration for the MASCARA and bRing instruments https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2018/11/aa34070-18/aa34070-18.html Search for…

Assembling Life: How Can Life Begin on Earth and Other Habitable Planets? https://global.oup.com/academic/product/assembling-life-9780190646387?cc=us&lang=en& Orbital outcomes of STIPs and consequences for hot-Jupiter formation and planet diversity https://open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0373613 The NEW Arecibo Message…

Activity induced variation in spin-orbit angles as derived from Rossiter–McLaughlin measurements https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2018/11/aa33709-18/aa33709-18.html Grid of upper atmosphere models for 1–40 M⊕ planets: application to CoRoT-7 b and HD 219134 b,c https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2018/11/aa33737-18/aa33737-18.html…

A key piece in the exoplanet puzzle https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07328-7 A candidate super-Earth planet orbiting near the snow line of Barnard’s star https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.05955 Spitzer Observations of Interstellar Object 1I/’Oumuamua http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aae88f/meta Diagrams and…

Hubble pinpoints first exomoon discovery https://academic.oup.com/astrogeo/article-abstract/59/6/6.7/5180329 Data mining predicts stellar eclipse https://academic.oup.com/astrogeo/article-abstract/59/6/6.5/5180292 Treating Wavefront Measurement Error in Estimation of Non-Common Path Aberration for Direct Imaging of Exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.05096 The Exchange…

Solar Sails: Traveling the Solar System (and Beyond!) with Sunlight https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20180006969.pdf Brown dwarf companion with a period of 4.6 yr interacting with the hot Jupiter CoRoT-20 b https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2018/11/aa33180-18/aa33180-18.html The Ring…

Comets, Enceladus and panspermia https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10509-018-3465-0 NASA’s Astrobiology Program Evolving to Meet the Future https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/nasas-astrobiology-program-evolving-to-meet-the-future/ NASA to shut down astrobiology virtual institute https://spacenews.com/nasa-to-shut-down-astrobiology-virtual-institute/ Stability of planets in triple star systems https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2018/11/aa33097-18/aa33097-18.html…

Planetary tidal interactions and the rotational evolution of low-mass stars – The Pleiades’ anomaly https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2018/11/aa33576-18/aa33576-18.html An automated search for transiting exocomets https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.03102 Sculpting the Valley in the Radius Distribution of…

«Impulsar»: New Application for High Power/Energy High Repetition Rate Pulse-Periodic Lasers https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-030-02952-4 An optical transmission spectrum of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-33b. First indication of aluminum oxide in an exoplanet https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.02573…

Scientists push back against Harvard ‘alien spacecraft’ theory https://phys.org/news/2018-11-scientists-harvard-alien-spacecraft-theory.html Prospects for TTV Detection and Dynamical Constraints with TESS https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.01970 Ground-based Spectroscopy of the Exoplanet XO-2b using a Systematic Wavelength Calibration…

Photonic Wireless Terahertz Wave System for Space Exploration https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8510280 Retrieving Temperatures and Abundances of Exoplanet Atmospheres with High-Resolution Cross-Correlation Spectroscopy https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.01681 A Jovian planet in an eccentric 11.5 day orbit…

Solar sail H-reversal trajectory: A review of its advances and applications https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42064-018-0032-y How life could help atmospheric tides slow a planet’s rotation https://www.astrobio.net/news-exclusive/how-life-could-help-atmospheric-tides-slow-a-planets-rotation/ Optical Detection of Lasers with Near-term Technology…

Independent board chair calls JWST a “step too far” https://spacenews.com/independent-board-chair-calls-jwst-a-step-too-far/ The Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes makes all Kepler data publicly available https://phys.org/news/2018-11-mikulski-archive-space-telescopes-kepler.html MAST: Barbara A. Mikulski Archive for Space…

The Formation of Solar System Analogs in Young Star Clusters https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.12934 Binary planet formation by gas-assisted encounters of planetary embryos https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.12955 Fully scalable forward model grid of exoplanet transmission spectra…

Prospects and physical mechanisms for photonic space propulsion https://www.nature.com/articles/s41566-018-0280-7 Propulsion by Stimulated Electromagnetic Forces https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328487508_PROPULSION_BY_STIMULATED_ELECTROMAGNETIC_FORCES Hawaii Supreme Court upholds permit for giant telescope https://phys.org/news/2018-10-hawaii-supreme-court-giant-telescope.html Kepler’s Discoveries Will Continue: 21 Important…

How to Search for Dead Cosmic Civilizations https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/how-to-search-for-dead-cosmic-civilizations/ Could Solar Radiation Pressure Explain ‘Oumuamua’s Peculiar Acceleration? https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.11490 Dynamical and Biological Panspermia Constraints Within Multiplanet Exosystems https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2017.1786 New instrument joins the…

Evolving Asteroid Starships: A Bio-Inspired Approach for Interstellar Space Systems https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328307121_Evolving_Asteroid_Starships_A_Bio-Inspired_Approach_for_Interstellar_Space_Systems Using the Interstellar Probe to Decipher Exoplanet Signatures of Our Planets from the Very Local Interstellar Medium https://surveygizmoresponseuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/fileuploads/15647/4139225/196-8e2d83e91e913e0e21828742ad517df7_ISP_Exoplanet_White_Paper_v2.pdf Project…

Coronagraphy review and WFIRST/AFTA http://sites.nationalacademies.org/cs/groups/bpasite/documents/webpage/bpa_160851.pdf Matrix-propagator approach to compute fluid Love numbers and applicability to extrasolar planets https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.10064 MOA-2016-BLG-319Lb: Microlensing Planet Subject to Rare Minor-image Perturbation Degeneracy in Determining Planet…

A Catalog of Stars Observed Simultaneously by Kepler and TESS http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/aae9e2 Climate Modeling of a Potential ExoVenus https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.10072

Compact Multi-planet Systems are more Common around Metal-poor Hosts http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aae710 Science with an ngVLA: Observing the Effects of Chemistry on Exoplanets and Planet Formation https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.09550

Exoplanet Exploration Program Analysis Group (ExoPAG) Study Analysis Group (SAG) 17 Final Report Resources Needed for Planetary Confirmation and Characterization https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.08689 What determines the local metallicity of galaxies: global stellar…

Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) Flight Dynamics Commissioning Results and Experiences https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20180006156.pdf The 0.8–4.5 μm Broadband Transmission Spectra of TRAPPIST-1 Planets http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aade94 Climate Modeling of Hypothetical Moon-moons in the Kepler-1625b…

HAZMAT. IV. Flares and Superflares on Young M Stars in the Far Ultraviolet https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.03277 Radial velocity follow-up of GJ1132 with HARPS – A precise mass for planet b and the…

N-body simulations of terrestrial planet growth with resonant dynamical friction https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.07201 SETI surveys of the nearby and distant universe employing wide-field radio interferometry techniques https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.07235 Maximum Angular Separation Epochs for…

Linear Structural Dynamics and Tip-Vane Attitude Control for Square Solar Sails https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/full/10.2514/1.G003485 Is the ring inside or outside the planet?: The effect of planet migration on dust rings https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.06573 Award-winning…

The Psychology of Space Exploration: What Freud Might Have Said https://www.amazon.com/Psychology-Space-Exploration-Freud-Might/dp/1138351407/ Electrostatic accelerated electrons within symmetric capacitors during field emission condition events exert bidirectional propellant-less thrust https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.04368 Overcoming the Limitations…

Fermi and Lotka: The Long Odds of Survival in a Dangerous Universe https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.03088 Photometric limits on the high resolution imaging of exoplanets using the solar gravity lens https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576518307987 Constraining the…

A New Planet in the Kepler-159 System From Transit Timing Variations https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/sty2738/5124396 A Framework for Planet Detection with Faint Light-curve Echoes http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aadc5e Methane in Analogs of Young Directly Imaged Exoplanets…

Nanophotonic Heterostructures for Efficient Propulsion and Radiative Cooling of Relativistic Light Sails https://authors.library.caltech.edu/88412/1/acs.nanolett.8b02035.pdf Supporting Information for “Nanophotonic Heterostructures for Efficient Propulsion and Radiative Cooling of Relativistic Light Sails” https://authors.library.caltech.edu/88412/3/nl8b02035_si_001.pdf Enhanced…

Revisiting the potassium feature of WASP-31b at high-resolution https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.03693 Deep exploration of ε Eridani with Keck Ms-band vortex coronagraphy and radial velocities: mass and orbital parameters of the giant exoplanet…

Networking in Interstellar Dimensions: Communicating with TRAPPIST-1 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8481450 Negative energy states and interstellar travel https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328006467_Negative-energy-states-and-interstellar-travel New transiting hot Jupiters discovered by WASP-South, Euler/CORALIE and TRAPPIST-South https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/sty2741/5124398 Origin of Earth’s Water:…

Stellar imaging coronagraph and exoplanet coronal spectrometer: two additional instruments for exoplanet exploration onboard the WSO-UV 1.7-m orbital telescope https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.4.4.044001 Biosignatures for Astrobiology https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-96175-0 Mach Effect Gravity Assist Drive-New Results…

3D Aeronomy Modeling of Close-in Exoplanets https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/sty2652/5113484 Planet Occurrence Rate Density Models Including Stellar Effective Temperature http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/aadff1 Physical constraints for the evolution of life on exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.02007 Direct Imaging of…

Construction of Europe’s exoplanet hunter Plato begins http://spacenewsfeed.com/index.php/news/2099-construction-of-europe-s-exoplanet-hunter-plato-begins Evidence for a large exomoon orbiting Kepler-1625b http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/10/eaav1784 Ion-beam-driven Planetary Physics Research at FAIR http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/aadd4c Scientific image rendering for space scenes with…

Bayesian approach to SETI https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.01207 A limit on gas accretion onto close-in super-Earth cores from disk accretion https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.01389 The ExoMol database: molecular line lists for exoplanet and other hot atmospheres…

Outer Space as a Socioeconomic Field https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-96857-5_4 The Global Catastrophic Risks Connected with Possibility of Finding Alien AI During SETI https://philpapers.org/rec/TURTRC The Origins Space Telescope (OST) Mission Concept Study Interim…

Space colonization remains the only long-term option for humanity: A reply to Torres https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016328718302222 Single site observations of \textit{TESS} single transit detections https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.10687 A Discrete Set of Possible Transit Ephemerides…

Gap Formation in Planetesimal Disks Via Divergently Migrating Planets https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.10209 MOPSS II: Extreme Optical Scattering Slope for the Inflated Super-Neptune HATS-8b https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.10211 Microlensing path parametrization for Earth-like Exoplanet detection around…

NASA Technosignatures Workshop (NTW18) https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/technosignatures2018/ From cold to hot irradiated gaseous exoplanets: A classification scheme with four classes https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.09629 The LUVOIR Mission Concept Study Interim Report https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.09668 The Habitable Exoplanet…

Both Halves of NASA’s Webb Telescope Successfully Communicate https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/both-halves-of-nasa-s-webb-telescope-successfully-communicate A Planetary Mass and Stellar Radius Relationship for Exoplanets Orbiting Red Giants https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.09099 Dependence of Biological Activity on the Surface Water…

Handbook of Life Support Systems for Spacecraft and Extraterrestrial Habitats https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-3-319-09575-2 Toward a new paradigm for Type II migration https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2018/09/aa33539-18/aa33539-18.html The HADES RV Programme with HARPS-N at TNG VIII. GJ15A:…

Erratum: “Theoretical Transmission Spectra of Exoplanet Atmospheres with Hydrocarbon Haze: Effect of Creation, Growth, and Settling of Haze Particles. I. Model Description and First Results” http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aadaea Penetrative Convection in Super‐Earth…

Planet–Planet Tides in the TRAPPIST-1 System http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/aae260 Far-Ultraviolet Activity Levels of F, G, K, and M dwarf Exoplanet Host Stars https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.07342 Why do protoplanetary disks appear not massive enough to…

Mass, Radius, and Composition of the Transiting Planet 55 Cnc e: Using Interferometry and Correlations—A Quick Update http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/aae1f6 Evaluating the effect of immeasurable parameters of exoplanets on their habitability using…

Superflare Ultraviolet Impact on Kepler-96 System: A Glimpse of Habitability When the Ozone Layer First Formed on Earth https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2017.1724 Investigating the young solar system analog HD 95086★ A combined HARPS…

Scaling Laws of Ion Acceleration in Ultrathin Foils Driven by Laser Radiation Pressure https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.06007 QED cascade in a plane electromagnetic wave https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.06115 Ground- and Space-based Detection of the Thermal Emission…

Interaction of infalling solid bodies with primordial atmospheres of disk-embedded planets https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.05307 Improving Orbit Estimates for Incomplete Orbits with a New Approach to Priors – with Applications from Black Holes…

Measurement of Source Star Colors with the K2C9-CFHT Multi-color Microlensing Survey http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/aadcd3 Pyaneti: a fast and powerful software suite for multi-planet radial velocity and transit fitting https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.04609 Magnetically Induced Termination…

Disruption of a Planet Spiraling into its Host Star http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aad77c Measuring the Water Snow Line in a Protoplanetary Disk http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/aadfe7 Dynamical Constraints on the HR 8799 Planets with GPI https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.04107…

Secular transport during disk dispersal: the case of Kepler-419 https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.03510 Carbon ‘fluffy’ aggregates produced by helium – hydrocarbon high pressure plasmas as analogs to interstellar dust https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.03698 Prospecting for exo-Earths…

WFIRST Exoplanet Mass Measurement Method Finds a Planetary Mass of 39±8M⊕ for OGLE-2012-BLG-0950Lb https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.02654 WASP-128b: a transiting brown dwarf in the dynamical-tide regime https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.07557

Principium, Issue 22 | August 2018 https://i4is.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Principium22.pdf No Bootstrap Spaceshipsvia Magnets in Electric Fields http://physics.princeton.edu/~mcdonald/examples/redfern.pdf The Influence of \ce{H2O} Pressure Broadening in High Metallicity Exoplanet Atmospheres https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.02548

Computational astrophysics for the future http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6406/979 Exoplanets in the Antarctic sky. II. 116 Transiting Exoplanet Candidates found by AST3-II (CHESPA) within the Southern CVZ of TESS https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01789 Recent Developments at…

Success in critical communications tests for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/success-in-critical-communications-tests-for-nasas-james-webb-space-telescope Kepler resumes operations despite malfunctioning thruster https://spacenews.com/kepler-resumes-operations-despite-malfunctioning-thruster/ Exoplanet Science Strategy https://www.nap.edu/catalog/25187/exoplanet-science-strategy Habitable Climate Scenarios for Proxima Centauri b…

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…

Scaling Relations Associated with Millimeter Continuum Sizes in Protoplanetary Disks https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.10510

Metallicity effect and planet mass function in pebble-based planet formation models https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.10707 Molecule mapping of HR8799b using OSIRIS on Keck: Strong detection of water and carbon monoxide, but no methane…

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…

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…

Big Data on Exoplanet Composition https://www.americanscientist.org/article/big-data-on-exoplanet-composition Precision Light Curves from TESS Full-frame Images: A Different Imaging Approach http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aad68e Mass-dependent Dynamics of Terrestrial Exoplanets Using ab initio Mineral Properties https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103517306516 Radio…

Detectability of biosignatures in anoxic atmospheres with the James Webb Space Telescope: A TRAPPIST-1e case study https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.08377 Larger mutual inclinations for the shortest-period planets https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.08475 Planetary tidal interactions and the…

The Equation of State of MH-III: a possible deep CH4 reservoir in Titan, Super-Titan exoplanets and moons https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.07925 Capture into first-order resonances and long-term stability of pairs of equal-mass planets…

The scatter of the M dwarf mass-radius relationship https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.07780 A review on substellar objects beyond the deuterium burning mass limit: planets, brown dwarfs or what? https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.07798

Starspot Occultations in Infrared Transit Spectroscopy: The Case of WASP-52b http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aac6db Comment on “Gravitational waves from ultra-short period exoplanets” https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.07055 Aliasing in the Radial Velocities of YZ Ceti: An Ultra-Short…

NASA’s Exoplanet Excursions VR Experience http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/vr Detectability of Biosignatures in Anoxic Atmospheres with the James Webb Space Telescope: A TRAPPIST-1e Case Study http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aad564 Multiple Disk Gaps and Rings Generated by…

No Bootstrap Spaceships http://www.physics.princeton.edu/~mcdonald/examples/bootstrap.pdf The mass of the young planet Beta Pictoris b through the astrometric motion of its host star https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.06257 Billion-dollar telescopes could end up beyond the reach…

Water-worlds are common: Exoplanets may contain vast amounts of water https://phys.org/news/2018-08-water-worlds-common-exoplanets-vast-amounts.html Warping a protoplanetary disc with a planet on an inclined orbit https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.05693 Panoramic optical and near-infrared SETI instrument: overall…

Is Humanity About To Accidentally Declare Interstellar War On Alien Civilizations? https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2018/08/07/is-humanity-about-to-accidentally-declare-interstellar-war-on-alien-civilizations/#7cfdbdd026a9 Why Humanity Probably Won’t Accidentally Start An Interstellar War With An Alien Civilization https://www.forbes.com/sites/thelabbench/2018/08/16/why-humanity-probably-wont-accidentally-start-an-interstellar-war-with-an-alien-civilization/#47e0d1c3dfa7 Tiny ASTERIA satellite achieves…

Atomic iron and titanium in the atmosphere of the exoplanet KELT-9b https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0401-y Atmospheric Retrieval of Exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.04824 Detecting free-floating planets using water-depend colour terms in the next generation of infrared…

Deep Space Commodities https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-90303-3 Astrobiology and Society in Europe Today https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-96265-8 Material Properties for the Interiors of Massive Giant Planets and Brown Dwarfs https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.04472 Searching for Biosignatures in Exoplanetary Impact…

Characterization of Low Mass K2 Planet Hosts Using Near-Infrared Spectroscopy https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.03652 Formation of a planetary Laplace resonance through migration in an eccentric disk – The case of GJ876 https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.04223

Searching for E.T.: A Universal Units Proposal http://jbis.org.uk/paper.php?p=2018.71.43 Computing the Minimal Crew for a multi-generational space journey towards Proxima b http://jbis.org.uk/paper.php?p=2018.71.45 Worldship Ethics: Obligations to the Crew http://jbis.org.uk/paper.php?p=2018.71.53 The Social…

The California-Kepler Survey. VI: Kepler Multis and Singles Have Similar Planet and Stellar Properties Indicating a Common Origin https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.03010 Data processing on simulated data for SHARK-NIR https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.03121 OGLE-2014-BLG-1186: gravitational microlensing…

Dynamics and Formation of the Near-resonant K2-24 System: Insights from Transit-timing Variations and Radial Velocities http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aaceac Non-detection of Contamination by Stellar Activity in the Spitzer Transit Light Curves of TRAPPIST-1…

Nanophotonic Heterostructures for Efficient Propulsionand Radiative Cooling of Relativistic Light Sails https://authors.library.caltech.edu/88412/1/acs.nanolett.8b02035.pdf Tardigrade Indexing approach on exoplanets https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214552418300415 Spacecraft With Interstellar Medium Momentum Exchange Reactions: The potential and limitations of…

Exploring the realm of scaled solar system analogues with HARPS https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2018/07/aa32791-18/aa32791-18.html Interior characterization in multiplanetary systems: TRAPPIST-1 https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.01803 The Effect of Disequilibrium Carbon Chemistry on the Atmospheric Circulation and Phase…

NASA Develops Technology Today to Enable Breakthrough Observations Tomorrow https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20180003964.pdf Equation of state of SiC at extreme conditions: new insight into the interior of carbon rich exoplanets https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2018JE005582 A Search…

VLA Detects Possible Extrasolar Planetary-Mass Magnetic Powerhouse https://public.nrao.edu/news/planetary-mass-powerhouse/ Modeling Repeated M Dwarf Flaring at an Earth-like Planet in the Habitable Zone: Atmospheric Effects for an Unmagnetized Planet https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2017.1794 Disruption of…

Penetrative Convection in Super‐Earth planets: Consequences of MgSiO3 post‐Perovskite Dissociation Transition and Implications for super‐Earth GJ 876 d https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2018JE005633 Understanding WASP-12b https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.00052 Habitability in the Omega Centauri Cluster https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.00053 Radioactive…

The origin of RNA precursors on exoplanets http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/8/eaar3302 The Search for Extra-Galactic Intelligence Signals Synchronized with Binary Neutron Star Mergers http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aad33d Using warm dust to constrain unseen planets https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.11536 The…

Where no planetary protection policy has gone before https://doi.org/10.1017/S1473550418000228 A Catalog of Spectra, Albedos, and Colors of Solar System Bodies for Exoplanet Comparison https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2017.1763 Two warm, low-density sub-Jovian planets orbiting…

A Place Among the Stars? The Influence of Religion and Creationism on Attitudes Toward Space Exploration and Beliefs in Extraterrestrial Life https://uknowledge.uky.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1144&context=psychology_etds EPIC 246851721 b: A Tropical Jupiter Transiting a…

Northrop CEO offers to link JWST profit to mission success https://spacenews.com/northrop-ceo-offers-to-link-jwst-profit-to-mission-success/ A Survey and Analysis of College Students’ Understanding of Planet Formation Before Instruction https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2017.1815 Characterizing the atmosphere of Proxima…

NASA weighs delaying WFIRST to fund JWST overrun https://spacenews.com/nasa-weighs-delaying-wfirst-to-fund-jwst-overrun/ A more comprehensive habitable zone for finding life on other planets https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.09504 Planets around evolved intermediate-mass stars in open clusters II.…

WEIRD: Wide-orbit Exoplanet search with InfraRed Direct imaging https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.08799 Modeled Temperature-Dependent Clouds with Radiative Feedback in Hot Jupiter Atmospheres https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.08890 Relative Likelihood of Success in the Searches for Primitive versus…

Space, Architecture, and Science Fiction: An Architectural Interpretation of Space Colonization https://cgscholar.com/bookstore/works/space-architecture-and-science-fiction NASA faces funding challenge for JWST in future years https://spacenews.com/nasa-faces-funding-challenge-for-jwst-in-future-years/ Rio 2.0: revising the Rio scale for SETI…

Astrotheology: Science and Theology Meet Extraterrestrial Life https://www.amazon.com/Astrotheology-Science-Theology-Meet-Extraterrestrial/dp/1532606397/ Handbook of Exoplanets https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-3-319-30648-3 Valuing Life-Detection Missions https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2017.1813 Earth Without Life: A Systems Model of a Global Abiotic Nitrogen Cycle https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2017.1700 Carbon…

The first super-Earth Detection from the High Cadence and High Radial Velocity Precision Dharma Planet Survey https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.07098 Review of high-contrast imaging systems for current and future ground-based and space-based telescopes…

Dynamical Evolution of the Early Solar System https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.06647 Characterization of microdot apodizers for imaging exoplanets with next-generation space telescopes https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.06761 Evolution of Earth-like extrasolar planetary atmospheres: Assessing the atmospheres and…

Chemo-kinematic ages of eccentric-planet-hosting M dwarf stars https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.06017 Search for Extra-Galactic Intelligence Signal Synchronized with a Binary Neutron Star Merger https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.06024 Metallicity-Dependent Signatures in the Kepler Planets https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.06033 Exoplanet science…

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…

Space Nuclear Power Systems – Direct Fusion Drive https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/pdf/10.2514/6.2018-4974 Implications of Tides for Life on Exoplanets https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2017.1718 The Inner Solar System’s Habitability Through Time https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.04776 Gravitational Waves From Ultra Short…

Tidal Decay of Circumbinary Planetary Systems http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aaccf9 The Best Planets to Harbor Detectable Exomoons http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aac9c0 The 55 Cnc system reassessed https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.04301 MagAO-X: project status and first laboratory results https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.04315 Effect…