Interstellar Updates

Breakthrough Propulsion Study
https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2019/02/15/breakthrough-propulsion-study/

Stellar spectroscopy in the near-infrared with a laser frequency comb
https://www.osapublishing.org/optica/abstract.cfm?uri=optica-6-2-233

Multiverse Predictions for Habitability: Number of Habitable Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.06784

Tropical and Extratropical General Circulation with a Meridional Reversed Temperature Gradient as Expected in a High Obliquity Planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.06832

PDS 70: A transition disk sculpted by a single planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.07191

Project Lyra: Catching 1I/’Oumuamua – Mission Opportunities After 2024
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04935

HADES RV program with HARPS-N at the TNG IX. A super-Earth around the M dwarf Gl 686
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2019/02/aa34868-18/aa34868-18.html

The SOPHIE search for northern extrasolar planets. XIV. A temperate (Teq∼300 K) super-earth around the nearby star Gliese 411
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.06004

The SOPHIE search for northern extrasolar planets XV. A Warm Neptune around the M-dwarf Gl378
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.05998

An alternative interpretation of the exomoon candidate signal in the combined Kepler and Hubble data of Kepler-1625
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.06018

Introduction to the SETI program, criticalities and future strategies
http://sait.oats.inaf.it/MSAIt890318/PDF/2018MmSAI..89..316M.pdf

Water MASER emission: a powerful diagnostic tool for the search of extra-terrestrial life
http://sait.oats.inaf.it/MSAIt890318/PDF/2018MmSAI..89..413C.pdf

Cargoism and Scientific Justification in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/zygo.12480

Circular spectropolarimetric sensing of vegetation in the field; possibilities for the remote detection of extraterrestrial life
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.05859

A theoretical model for realistic local climates
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.05598

K2-291b: A Rocky Super-Earth in a 2.2 day Orbit
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aafe83

Dust unveils the formation of a mini-Neptune planet in a protoplanetary ring
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.05143

The Origin of Kepler-419b: A Path to Tidal Migration Via Four-body Secular Interactions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.05144

Aggregate Hazes in Exoplanet Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.05231

A Proposed Method for a Photon-Counting Laser Coherence Detection System to Complement Optical SETI
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.05371

Earth First Origins Project Seeks To Replicate the Cradle of Life
https://news.rpi.edu/content/2019/02/14/earth-first-origins-project-seeks-replicate-cradle-life

The survivability of planetary systems in young and dense star clusters
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04652

A limited habitable zone for complex life
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04720

A reduced chemical scheme for modelling warm to hot hydrogen-dominated atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04939