Interstellar Updates

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 Mission Advances to New Phase of Development
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/telescope-for-nasa-s-wfirst-mission-advances-to-new-phase-of-development

An empirical infrared transit spectrum of Earth: opacity windows and biosignatures
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/489/1/196/5552693

Light Curve Analysis of Ground-Based Data from Exoplanets Transit Database
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1384107619300508

Project BMK10k: Zeiss Ballistische Messkammer with a 10k × 10k CCD for ground‐based PLATO support
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.201913646

From cold to hot irradiated gaseous exoplanets: Fingerprints of chemical disequilibrium in atmospheric spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.09847

New thermodynamic constraints on internal, thermal and magnetic states of terrestrial-like Super-Earths
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.09871

KMT-2016-BLG-1836Lb: A Super-Jovian Planet From A High-Cadence Microlensing Field
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.10011

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

Estimation of singly-transiting K2 planet periods with Gaia parallaxes
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.08548

An 11 Earth-Mass, Long-Period Sub-Neptune Orbiting a Sun-like Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.08585

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 of Living Systems Throughout the Cosmos
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0079610719301129

Tidal circularization of gaseous planets orbiting white dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.08052

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 detection missions
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0273117719303539

Planetary systems in a star cluster I: the Solar system scenario
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.07747

Do Androids Dream of Magnetic Fields? Using Neural Networks to Interpret the Turbulent Interstellar Medium
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.00918