Interstellar Updates

Angles-Only EKF Navigation for Hyperbolic Flybys
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/7608/

Is Interstellar Travel Really Possible?
https://www.space.com/is-interstellar-travel-possible.html

Parameterizing the Search Space of Starshade Fuel Costs for Optimal Observation Schedules
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.G003747

2.5-D retrieval of atmospheric properties from exoplanet phase curves: Application to WASP-43b observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.03233

Eigenvectors, Circulation and Linear Instabilities for Planetary Science in 3 Dimensions (ECLIPS3D)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.03722

Measuring the Orbital Parameters of Radial Velocity Systems in Mean-motion Resonance: A Case Study of HD 200964
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab3b02

Searching for Wide Companions and Identifying Circum(sub)stellar Disks through PSF Fitting of Spitzer/IRAC Archival Images
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab32e6

Detection of Hundreds of New Planet Candidates and Eclipsing Binaries in K2 Campaigns 0–8
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/ab346b

Oceanographic Constraints on Exoplanet Life
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.02928

TESS observations of the WASP-121 b phase curve
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.03000

Optical phase curve of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-121b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.03010

On the survivability of planets in young massive clusters and its implication of planet orbital architectures in globular clusters
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz2467/5561505

Atmospheric Scintillation Noise in Ground-Based Exoplanet Photometry
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.02004

The Potential of Exozodiacal Disks Observations with the WFIRST Coronagraph Instrument
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.02161

A snapshot full-Stokes spectropolarimeter for detecting life on Earth
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.02283

The Discovery of the Long-Period, Eccentric Planet Kepler-88 d and System Characterization with Radial Velocities and Photodynamical Analysis
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.02427

Settler of the Galaxy: The CSU Solution to GTOC-X
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335390088_SETTLER_OF_THE_GALAXY_THE_CSU_SOLUTION_TO_GTOCX

Stellar Engines: Design Considerations for Maximizing Acceleration
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576519312457

Galactic Habitability Re-Examined: Indications of Bimodality
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.01742

Twenty-four New Transit Timings of the Mini-Neptune GJ1214 B
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab3f29

SETI in Russia, USSR and the post-Soviet space: a century of research
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576518318393

Spectral Signature of the Biosphere: NISTAR Finds it in our Solar System from the Lagrangian L‐1 Point
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2019GL083736

Optimizing exoplanet atmosphere retrieval using unsupervised machine-learning classification
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.00718

GJ 357: A low-mass planetary system uncovered by precision radial-velocities and dynamical simulations
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.00831

Three nearby K-giants with planets: Accurate determination of basic parameters, including an analysis of metallicity based on Fe I lines
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.01054