Interstellar Updates

Main instrument for NASA’s WFIRST mission completes milestone review
https://spacenewsfeed.com/index.php/news/3366-main-instrument-for-nasa-s-wfirst-mission-completes-milestone-review

Constraints on HD 113337 fundamental parameters and planetary system: Combining long-base visible interferometry, disc imaging, and high-contrast imaging
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2019/07/aa35494-19

TESS Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets (THYME): A planet in the 45 Myr Tucana-Horologium association
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.10703

Nearly Polar orbit of the sub-Neptune HD3167 c: Constraints on a multi-planet system dynamical history
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.11013

KMT-2018-BLG-0029Lb: A Very Low Mass-Ratio Spitzer Microlens Planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.11183

The Atmosphere
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.04481

On Alien Worlds, Extraterrestrials Could Be Spewing a Toxic, Smelly Gas. That’s How We Could Find Them.
https://www.livescience.com/65791-alien-life-may-spew-toxic-gas.html

Modelling galactic settlement
https://phys.org/news/2019-06-galactic-settlement.html

10th Global Trajectory Optimisation Competition
https://gtocx.jpl.nasa.gov/gtocx/

Three Red Suns in the Sky: A Transiting, Terrestrial Planet in a Triple M Dwarf System at 6.9 Parsecs
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.10147

Thermal Tides in Rotating Hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.10330

Atmospheric Evolution on Low-Gravity Waterworlds
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.10561

Galactic Tide and Local Stellar Perturbations on the Oort Cloud: Creation of Interstellar Comets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.10617

A super-Earth and sub-Neptune transiting the late-type M dwarf LP 791-18
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.09267

TOI-150b and TOI-163b: two transiting hot Jupiters, one eccentric and one inflated, revealed by TESS near and at the edge of the JWST CVZ
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.09866

Do Active Galactic Nuclei Help or Hurt Life?
https://aasnova.org/2019/05/29/do-active-galactic-nuclei-help-or-hurt-life/

Self-excited oscillation of spinning solar sails utilizing solar radiation pressure
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42064-018-0047-4

CO Detected in Ci Tau b: Hot Start Implied by Planet Mass and M K
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab276d

The high-energy radiation environment of the habitable-zone super-Earth LHS 1140b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.08783

Orphaned Exomoons: Tidal Detachment and Evaporation Following an Exoplanet-Star Collision
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.08788

Exoplanets and University-Industry Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.08777

Directly testing gravity with Proxima Centauri
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.08264

Survivability of radio-loud planetary cores orbiting white dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.08273

Fast Computational Convolution Methods For Extended Source Effects In Microlensing Lightcurves
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.08378

Transit modelling of selected Kepler systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.08610

The SPECULOOS telescopes and searching for red worlds in the northern skies
https://phys.org/news/2019-06-speculoos-telescopes-red-worlds-northern.html

Search for Nearby Earth Analogs. I. 15 Planet Candidates Found in PFS Data
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/ab1b16

Observing Isotopologue Bands in Terrestrial Exoplanet Atmospheres with the James Webb Space Telescope: Implications for Identifying Past Atmospheric and Ocean Loss
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab2385

Spitzer Parallax of OGLE-2018-BLG-0596: A Low-mass-ratio Planet around an M Dwarf
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab237f