Interstellar Updates

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 Earth-like atmospheres in the habitable zones of very active stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.01063

Stellar Characterization Necessary to Define Holistic Planetary Habitability
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.01089

An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Elements in Astrobiology: From Stars to Planets to Life
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.01092

Detecting exoplanets with FAST?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.01239

The influence of general-relativity effects, dynamical tides and collisions on planet-planet scattering close to the star
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.01420

Three new massive planets and two low mass brown dwarfs at separation larger than 5 AU
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.01573

Advanced Aspects of the Galactic Habitability
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.01062

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

Comparing key compositional indicators in Jupiter with those in extra-solar giant planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.00054

Possibility of a coordinated signaling scheme in the Galaxy and SETI experiments
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.00536

The Transit Least Squares Survey – I. Discovery and validation of an Earth-sized planet in the four-planet system K2-32 near the 1:2:5:7 resonance
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.00651

Revisiting the HIP41378 system with K2 and Spitzer
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.11116

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 Day paper, but well thought out and presented)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.12182

The Influence of Host Star Spectral Type on Ultra-Hot Jupiter Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.12183

High-Energy Photon and Particle Effects onExoplanet Atmospheres and Habitability
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.12338

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 685 b: a warm super-Earth around an active M dwarf
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.11853

First direct detection of an exoplanet by optical interferometry; Astrometry and K-band spectroscopy of HR8799 e
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.11903

Habitability of Earth-like stagnant lid planets: Climate evolution and recovery from snowball states
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.12111

Effects of the second virial coefficient on the adiabatic lapse rate of dry atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.10411

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 and Schedule Commitments
https://www.gao.gov/assets/700/697887.pdf

Evidence against non-gravitational acceleration of 1I/2017 U1 ‘Oumuamua
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10509-019-3542-z

The new 4‐m robotic telescope
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.201913556

A transiting exocomet detected in broadband light by TESS in the β Pictoris system
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.11071

Efficient Follow-Up of Exoplanet Transits Using Small Telescopes
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.11078

Transverses instability in the “light sail” ion acceleration
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.11354