Interstellar Updates

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

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
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz2332/5558252

Nuclear microbomb propulsion for manned deep space exploration with return travel
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576519306101

Comment on “the ultimate limits of the relativistic rocket equation. The Planck photon rocket”
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576518317818

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 companions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.10871

Ingredients for Solar-like Systems: protostar IRAS 16293-2422 B versus comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.11290

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 Spectroscopic Transmission Features to be Muted to 33%
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.10669

Remote sensing of exoplanetary atmospheres with ground-based high-resolution near-infrared spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.10695

Sodium and Potassium Signatures of Volcanic Satellites Orbiting Close-in Gas Giant Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.10732

WASP-169, WASP-171, WASP-175 and WASP-182: three hot Jupiters and one bloated sub-Saturn mass planet discovered by WASP-south
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.10388