Interstellar Updates

Monitoring of the D Doublet of Neutral Sodium during Transits of Two “Evaporating” Planets
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz693/5372460

Op-ed | The rocky landscape for astrophysics
https://spacenews.com/the-rocky-landscape-for-astrophysics/

The Space Astrophysics Landscape for the 2020s and Beyond
https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/landscape2019/

Habitable zone predictions and how to test them
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.03706

Mechanisms leading to a warmer climate on high obliquity planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.03726

Effectively Calculating Gaseous Absorption in Radiative Transfer Models of Exoplanetary and Brown Dwarf Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.03997

A hypothesis for the rapid formation of planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.04451

Impact of thermal effects on the evolution of eccentricity and inclination of low-mass planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.04470

Tracing the Origins and Evolution of Small Planets using Their Orbital Obliquities
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.04482

The Halo Drive: Fuel-free Relativistic Propulsion of Large Masses via Recycled Boomerang Photons
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.03423

Quantitative evaluation of a dual-band spacecraft communication concept for a 1000 AU interstellar pathfinder mission
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/10910/1091003/Quantitative-evaluation-of-a-dual-band-spacecraft-communication-concept-for/10.1117/12.2513937.short

Revealing signatures of planets migrating in protoplanetary discs with ALMA multi-wavelength observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.03114

Data-driven stellar parameters for southern TESS FGK targets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.03115

Stellar Astrophysics and Exoplanet Science with the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer (MSE)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.03157

Mass and Mass Scalings of Super-Earths
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.04693

“Goldilocks” Stars May Be “Just Right” for Finding Habitable Worlds
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/k-star-advantage

The K Dwarf Advantage for Biosignatures on Directly Imaged Exoplanets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab0651

A Jovian planet in an eccentric 11.5 day orbit around HD 1397 discovered by TESS
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2019/03/aa34577-18/aa34577-18.html

Detecting exoplanets with FAST?
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1674-4527/19/2/23

Planet-planet scattering as the source of the highest eccentricity exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.02564

WASP-4b Arrived Early for the TESS Mission
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.02573

Helium Absorption at 1083 nm from Extended Exoplanet Atmospheres: Dependence on Stellar Radiation
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.02576

Physical properties and transmission spectrum of the WASP-74 planetary system from multi-band photometry
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.02800

WASP-92, WASP-93 and WASP-118: Transit timing variations and long-term stability of the systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.02804

Enlarging habitable zones around binary stars in hostile environments
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.01995

The Metallicity-Period-Mass Diagram of low-mass exoplanets
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz664/5371168

Planetary Magnetism as a Parameter in Exoplanet Habitability
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz667/5371175

Formation of short-period planets by disk migration
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.02004

Transit Ly-α signatures of terrestrial planets in the habitable zones of M dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.02303

On the survivability of planets in young massive clusters
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.02316

Visual Analysis and Demographics of Kepler Transit Timing Variations
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.02336

Rocky super-Earths or waterworlds: the interplay of planet migration, pebble accretion and disc evolution
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.02488

The Curious Case of KOI 4: Confirming Kepler’s First Exoplanet Detection
http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~dhuber/docs/kepler1658-accepted.pdf

Spitzer Detection of the Transiting Jupiter-analog Exoplanet Kepler-167e
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.01478

Self-Assembling Ice Membranes on Europa: Brinicle Properties, Field Examples, and Possible Energetic Systems in Icy Ocean Worlds
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.01584

MOVES II. Tuning in to the radio environment of HD189733b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.01809

Planet migration in wind-fed accretion disks in binaries
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.01873