Interstellar Updates

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
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.01803

OWL-MOON : Very high resolution spectro-imaging and Earth-Moon interferometry: exoplanets to cosmology
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.02080

Uranus and Neptune are key to understand planets with hydrogen atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.02092

Recurrence Network Analysis of Exoplanetary Observables
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.02158

Clouds of Fluffy Aggregates: How They Form in Exoplanetary Atmospheres and Influence Transmission Spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.02201

Biases in retrieving planetary signals in the presence of quasi-periodic stellar activity
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.02217

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 function during deep space exposures to chronic, low dose rate, neutron radiation
https://www.eneuro.org/content/early/2019/08/05/ENEURO.0094-19.2019

Analytical estimates of secular frequencies for binary star systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.01048

Eccentricities and the Stability of Closely-Spaced Five-Planet Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.01117

Atmospheric characterization of terrestrial exoplanets in the mid-infared: biosignatures, habitability & diversity
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.01316

Expected performances of the Characterising Exoplanet Satellite (CHEOPS). I. Photometric performances from ground-based calibration
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.01636

Unexpected gap creating two peaks in the periods of planets of metal-rich sunlike single stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.01679

Is there anybody out there?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.01907

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
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.00548

The HST PanCET Program: Exospheric Mg II and Fe II in the Near-UV transmission spectrum of WASP-121b using Jitter Decorrelation
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.00619

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 Exo-Kuiper Belt and An Extended Halo around HD 191089 in Scattered Light
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.00006

Investigating Trends in Atmospheric Compositions of Cool Gas Giant Planets Using Spitzer Secondary Eclipses
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.00014

Sensitivity Analyses of Exoplanet Occurrence Rates from Kepler and Gaia
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.00203

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 on the Breakthrough Initiatives Project Starshot Gram-Scale Interstellar Probe
https://www.interstellarresearchcentre.com/s/StarshotParticleBombardmentkflongb.pdf

Measuring Dust Impact Effects in the Interstellar Mediumfor the 1000 AU Interstellar Probe Mission
https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPSC-DPS2019/EPSC-DPS2019-1991-1.pdf

The Hubble Space Telescope PanCET Program: Exospheric Mg ii and Fe ii in the Near-ultraviolet Transmission Spectrum of WASP-121b Using Jitter Decorrelation
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab2986

Analyzing Atmospheric Temperature Profiles and Spectra of M dwarf Rocky Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.13135

Identifying Candidate Atmospheres on Rocky M dwarf Planets via Eclipse Photometry
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.13138

A Scaling Theory for Atmospheric Heat Redistribution on Rocky Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.13145

Identifying Atmospheres on Rocky Exoplanets Through Inferred High Albedo
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.13150

Hot Hydrogen Climates near the inner edge of the Habitable Zone
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.13169

The Habitability of GJ 357 d : Possible Climates and Observability
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.13215