Interstellar Updates

Study shows some exoplanets may have greater variety of life than exists on Earth
https://phys.org/news/2019-08-exoplanets-greater-variety-life-earth.html

The multiplicity distribution of Kepler’s exoplanets
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz2350/5553998

Lamarck and Panspermia – On the Efficient Spread of Living Systems Throughout the Cosmos
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0079610719301129

Tidal circularization of gaseous planets orbiting white dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.08052

Three Nearby K-Giants with Planets: Accurate Determination of Basic Parameters, Including an Analysis of Metallicity Based on Fe I Lines
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10511-019-09586-3

Calculating risk and payoff in planetary exploration and life detection missions
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0273117719303539

Planetary systems in a star cluster I: the Solar system scenario
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.07747

Do Androids Dream of Magnetic Fields? Using Neural Networks to Interpret the Turbulent Interstellar Medium
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.00918

Does the Evolution of Complex Life Depend on the Stellar Spectral Energy Distribution?
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2018.1946

Geoscience for Understanding Habitability in the Solar System and Beyond
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-019-0608-8

How Flow Isolation May Set the Mass Scale for Super-Earth Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.06991

Hot Jupiters are Destroyed by Tides While Their Host Stars are on the Main Sequence
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.06998

DMPP-2: The radial velocity discovery of a giant planet orbiting a bright pulsating star
http://physics.open.ac.uk/~ajnorton/papers/DMPP2.pdf

Planet formation and stability in polar circumbinary discs
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2019/08/aa33976-18/aa33976-18.html

OGLE-2018-BLG-1011Lb,c: Microlensing Planetary System with Two Giant Planets Orbiting a Low-mass Star
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab2f74

The impact of stripped cores on the frequency of Earth-size planets in the habitable zone
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.06192

Homogeneous Analysis of Hot Earths: Masses, Sizes, and Compositions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.06299

Impact of planetary mass uncertainties on exoplanet atmospheric retrievals
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.06305

Orbital dynamics of circumbinary planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.06331

Mini-magnetospheres and Moon-magnetosphere interactions: Overview Moon-magnetosphere Interactions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.06446

Erosion of an exoplanetary atmosphere caused by stellar winds
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.06695

An independent analysis of the Spitzer/IRAC phase curves of WASP43 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.06741

Inflation deployed torus-shaped solar sail accelerated via thermal desorption of coating
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.06761

Absence of a thick atmosphere on the terrestrial exoplanet LHS 3844b
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1497-4

Evidence for an additional planet in the β Pictoris system
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-019-0857-1

Enabling a Near-Term Interstellar Probe with the Space Launch System
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2019-4048

The Dipole Drive: A New Concept in Space Propulsion
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2019-1122

An Examination of Warp Theory and Technology to Determine the State of the Art and Feasibility
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2019-4288

Development of a pulse-recharge magnetic nozzle for PuFF
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2019-4284

Numerical Simulation of Laser and Particle Coupled Beam Propagation
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2019-3803

Performance Analysis of a Combined Laser and Neutral Particle Beam Propulsion Concept Based on Self-Guiding
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2019-3800

High-resolution Imaging Transit Photometry of Kepler-13AB
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab2f7b

A never-ending story in the sky: The secrets of chemical evolution
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1571064519300958

The SpaceDrive project – Thrust balance development and new measurements of the Mach-Effect and EMDrive Thrusters
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009457651832071X

Simulations of starspot anomalies within TESS exoplanetary transit light curves — I. The detection limits of starspot anomalies in TESS light curves
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.05747

The Kepler Peas in a Pod Pattern is Astrophysical
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.05833

Inner Edge of Habitable Zones for Earth-sized Planets with Various Surface Water Distributions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.05909

Habitability of galaxies and application of merger trees in astrobiology
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.05935

The Search for Living Worlds and the Connection to Our Cosmic Origins
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.05951

Astrometric planet search around southern ultracool dwarfs IV. Relative motion of the FORS2/VLT CCD chips
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.06056