Interstellar Updates

Giant Magellan Telescope signs contract for telescope structure
https://spacenewsfeed.com/index.php/news/3939-giant-magellan-telescope-signs-contract-for-telescope-structure

Optimal Steering Law of Refractive Sail
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0273117719307835

Molecular kinetic simulations of transient perturbations in a planet’s upper atmosphere
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103519301964

Photon-Sail Trajectory Optimization in Alpha Centauri using Evolutionary Neurocontrol
https://repository.tudelft.nl/islandora/object/uuid:0d5ccff2-42b9-43cc-9735-3ad6bd27bfb1

A Simple Multi-Pass Side-Pumping Scheme for Solar Powered Lasers
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334953452_A_Simple_Multi-Pass_Side-Pumping_Scheme_for_Solar_Powered_Lasers

Principles Of Heliophysics: a textbook on the universal processes behind planetary habitability
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.14022

Diverse outcomes of planet formation and composition around low-mass stars and brown dwarfs
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz3007/5610229

Collapse of the General Circulation in Shortwave-absorbing Atmospheres: An Idealized Model Study
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab4c43

Layered Uncertainty in Planetary Thermal History Models: Implications for Hypotheses Discrimination and Habitability Modeling
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.13654

Characterization of the Nucleus, Morphology and Activity of Interstellar comet 2I/Borisov by Optical and Near-Infrared GROWTH, Apache Point, IRTF, ZTF, Keck and HST Observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.14004

Spitzer Microlensing Program as a Probe for Globular Cluster Planets. Analysis of OGLE-2015-BLG-0448
https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.08520

JWST schedule margin shrinks
https://spacenews.com/jwst-schedule-margin-shrinks/

TESS Asteroseismology of the known red-giant host stars HD 212771 and HD 203949
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.05961

Planet and star synergy at high-spectral resolution. A rationale for the characterization of exoplanet atmospheres: I. The infrared
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2019/11/aa36566-19/aa36566-19.html

Search for Nanosecond Near-infrared Transients around 1280 Celestial Objects
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab44d3

K2-19b and c are in a 3:2 Commensurability but out of Resonance: A Challenge to Planet Assembly by Convergent Migration
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.12899

The Featureless Transmission Spectra of Two Super-Puff Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.12988

Oxygen fugacities of extrasolar rocks: Evidence for an Earth-like geochemistry of exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.12989

Connecting planet formation and astrochemistry: A main sequence for C/O in
hot-exoplanetary atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.13171

Identify Exo-Earth Candidates in Direct Imaging Data Through Bayesian Classification
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.13440

Discarding orbital decay in WASP-19b after one decade of transit observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.11930

Exomoons in the habitable zones of M dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.12054

Fast and Precise Light Curve Model for Transiting Exoplanets with Rings
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.12099

AttoSats: ChipSats, other Gram-Scale Spacecraft, and Beyond
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.12559

Lightning in other planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.12722

Detection of a Water Tracer in Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.12785

Earth as an exoplanet mission concept for a lunar orbiting cubesat
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/Journal-of-Astronomical-Telescopes-Instruments-and-Systems/volume-5/issue-4/044004/Earth-as-an-exoplanet-mission-concept-for-a-lunar-orbiting/10.1117/1.JATIS.5.4.044004.short

Life in the Universe: Expectations and Constraints
https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783540768166

Host Stars and their Effects on Exoplanet Atmospheres: An Introductory Overview
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-11452-7

From the stellar properties of HD 219134 to the internal compositions of its transiting exoplanets
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2019/11/aa36259-19/aa36259-19.html

Note on the HST Image of Comet 2I/Borisov Taken on 2019 October 12
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.11457

Interpreting High-Resolution Spectroscopy of Exoplanets Using Cross-Correlations and Supervised Machine Learning
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.11627