Interstellar Updates

On the survivability of planets in young massive clusters and its implication of planet orbital architectures in globular clusters
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz2467/5561505

Atmospheric Scintillation Noise in Ground-Based Exoplanet Photometry
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.02004

The Potential of Exozodiacal Disks Observations with the WFIRST Coronagraph Instrument
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.02161

A snapshot full-Stokes spectropolarimeter for detecting life on Earth
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.02283

The Discovery of the Long-Period, Eccentric Planet Kepler-88 d and System Characterization with Radial Velocities and Photodynamical Analysis
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.02427

Settler of the Galaxy: The CSU Solution to GTOC-X
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335390088_SETTLER_OF_THE_GALAXY_THE_CSU_SOLUTION_TO_GTOCX

Stellar Engines: Design Considerations for Maximizing Acceleration
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576519312457

Galactic Habitability Re-Examined: Indications of Bimodality
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.01742

Twenty-four New Transit Timings of the Mini-Neptune GJ1214 B
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab3f29

SETI in Russia, USSR and the post-Soviet space: a century of research
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576518318393

Spectral Signature of the Biosphere: NISTAR Finds it in our Solar System from the Lagrangian L‐1 Point
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2019GL083736

Optimizing exoplanet atmosphere retrieval using unsupervised machine-learning classification
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.00718

GJ 357: A low-mass planetary system uncovered by precision radial-velocities and dynamical simulations
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.00831

Three nearby K-giants with planets: Accurate determination of basic parameters, including an analysis of metallicity based on Fe I lines
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.01054

Are there any aliens out there? We are close to knowing for sure
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24332450-800-are-there-any-aliens-out-there-we-are-close-to-knowing-for-sure/

The Beam Balance – Measuring Binary Systems via Relativistic Beaming Signals from Stars and their Companions
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz2332/5558252

Nuclear microbomb propulsion for manned deep space exploration with return travel
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576519306101

Comment on “the ultimate limits of the relativistic rocket equation. The Planck photon rocket”
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576518317818

NGTS-6b: An Ultra Short Period Hot-Jupiter Orbiting an Old K Dwarf
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz2349/5555576

Life as-we-don’t-know-it: research repertoires and the emergence of astrobiology
https://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/36070