Interstellar Updates

Dual Use Exoplanet Telescope (DUET)
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2019_Phase_I_Phase_II/duet/

Power for Interstellar Fly-by
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2019_Phase_I_Phase_II/Power_for_Interstellar_Fly_by/

Self-Guided Beamed Propulsion for Breakthrough Interstellar Missions
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2019_Phase_I_Phase_II/Self_Guided_Beamed_Propulsion/

Diffractive Lightsails
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2019_Phase_I_Phase_II/Diffractive_Lightsails/

On the feasibility of studying the exospheres of Earth-like exoplanets by Lyman-α monitoring
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10686-018-9574-5

Indications for transit timing variations in the exo-Neptune HAT-P-26b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.06360

On the Mass Function, Multiplicity, and Origins of Wide-Orbit Giant Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.06438

Impacts of Quantum Chemistry Calculations on Exoplanetary Science, Planetary Astronomy, and Astrophysics
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.07161

Discovery of a Meteor of Interstellar Origin
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.07224

Oumuamua and Scout ET Probes
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.04914

Gravitat: Proposal for a Standard Design Vessel for Space Settlement
https://space.nss.org/media/NSS-JOURNAL-Gravitat-Standard-Design-Vessel.pdf

Searching for Atmospheric Bioindicators in Planets around the Two Nearby Stars, Proxima Centauri and Epsilon Eridani—Test Cases for Retrieval of Atmospheric Gases with Infrared Spectroscopy
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2018.1938

TESS Delivers Its First Earth-sized Planet and a Warm Sub-Neptune
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab12ed

The unbiased frequency of planetary signatures around single and binary white dwarfs using Spitzer and Hubble
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.05891

Developing a vision for exoplanetary transit spectroscopy: a shared window on the analysis of planetary atmospheres and of stellar magnetic structure
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.05976

Pushing the Limits of Exoplanet Discovery via Direct Imaging with Deep Learning
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.06155

Dust-to-gas ratio resurgence in circumstellar disks due to the formation of giant planets: the case of HD 163296
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.04361

The fate of planetesimal discs in young open clusters: implications for 1I/’Oumuamua, the Kuiper belt, the Oort cloud and more
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02465

The NASA Twins Study: A multidimensional analysis of a year-long human spaceflight
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/364/6436/eaau8650

Simulations of Water Vapor and Clouds on Rapidly Rotating and Tidally Locked Planets: A 3D Model Intercomparison
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab09f1

On degeneracies in retrievals of exoplanetary transmission spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.05356

The Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey: Giant Planet and Brown Dwarf Demographics From 10-100 AU
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.05358

First Light of Engineered Diffusers at the Nordic Optical Telescope Reveal Time Variability in the Optical Eclipse Depth of WASP-12b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.05362

Survival Rates of Planets in Open Clusters: the Pleiades, Hyades, and Praesepe clusters
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.08598

Solar System Escape Mission with Solar Sail Spacecraft within a Framework of post-Newtonian Gravitational Theory
http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2018.71.438

Do Alien Industrial Civilisations Exist?
http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2018.71.443

Heat Transfer in Fusion Starship Radiation Shielding Systems
http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2018.71.450

Stellar encounters with Giant Molecular Clouds
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz813/5437685

Precision characterization of the TESS CCD detectors: Quantum efficiency, charge blooming and undershoot effects
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576518304429

Global climate by Rossby number in the Solar system planets
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1384107619300806

Equatorial Kelvin-like waves on slowly rotating and/or small-sized spheres: Application to Venus and Titan
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103518304809

The binary mass ratios of circumbinary planet hosts
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.04832

Astro 2020 Science White Paper: Evolved Planetary Systems around White Dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.04839

Transiting Planets near the Snow Line from Kepler. I. Catalog
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.04980

Stars and exoplanets in Stokes IQUV: a decadal opportunity for HIRES at the ELT
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.05075

Future Stellar Flybys of the Voyager and Pioneer Spacecraft
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab158e

X-ray Studies of Exoplanets: A 2020 Decadal Survey White Paper
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.04320

Stellar activity and rotation of the planet host Kepler-17 from long-term space-borne photometry
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.04489

Faster Water Escape on High Obliquity Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.04740