Interstellar Updates

WFIRST faces funding crunch
https://spacenews.com/wfirst-faces-funding-crunch/

Close binary encounters bring life
https://academic.oup.com/astrogeo/article-abstract/60/2/2.7/5380742

New Avenues for Thermal Inversions in hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.11603

The HADES RV Programme with HARPS-N at TNG XI. GJ 685 b: a warm super-Earth around an active M dwarf
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.11853

First direct detection of an exoplanet by optical interferometry; Astrometry and K-band spectroscopy of HR8799 e
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.11903

Habitability of Earth-like stagnant lid planets: Climate evolution and recovery from snowball states
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.12111

Effects of the second virial coefficient on the adiabatic lapse rate of dry atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.10411

JWST review board raises schedule concerns
https://spacenews.com/jwst-review-board-raises-schedule-concerns/

Webb IRB Assessment with NASA Response
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/webb_irb_assessment_with_nasa_response_03.01.19.pdf

James Webb Space Telescope: Opportunity Nears to Provide Additional Assurance That Project Can Meet New Cost and Schedule Commitments
https://www.gao.gov/assets/700/697887.pdf

Evidence against non-gravitational acceleration of 1I/2017 U1 ‘Oumuamua
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10509-019-3542-z

The new 4‐m robotic telescope
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.201913556

A transiting exocomet detected in broadband light by TESS in the β Pictoris system
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.11071

Efficient Follow-Up of Exoplanet Transits Using Small Telescopes
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.11078

Transverses instability in the “light sail” ion acceleration
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.11354

First direct detection of an exoplanet by optical interferometry
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2019/03/aa35253-19/aa35253-19.html

Identifying Exoplanets with Deep Learning II: Two New Super-Earths Uncovered by a Neural Network in K2 Data
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.10507

Probing Unseen Planet Populations with Resolved Debris Disk Structures
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.10616

Extreme Debris Disk Variability — Exploring the Diverse Outcomes of Large Asteroid Impacts During the Era of Terrestrial Planet Formation
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.10627

Understanding Exoplanet Atmospheres with UV Observations II: The Far UV and Atmospheric Escape
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.10669

Modeling the Lyα transit absorption of the hot Jupiter HD 189733b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.10772

Transit observations of the exoplanet WASP-2b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.10897

The carbon-to-oxygen ratio: implications for the spectra of hydrogen-dominated exoplanet atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.10997

Physical constraints for the evolution of life on exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.02007

TESS Habitable Zone Star Catalog
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab0e8d

Observing exoplanets in the near-infrared from a high altitude balloon platform
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.09718

Active Galactic Nuclei: Boon or Bane for Biota?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.09768

Ground-Based Radial Velocity as Critical Support for Future NASA Earth-Finding Missions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.10017

Looking for Lurkers
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.09582

HD 213885b: A transiting 1-day-period super-Earth with an Earth-like composition around a bright (V=7.9) star unveiled by TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.07694

Terran World Spectral Simulator
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ab0480

Understanding Exoplanet Atmospheres with UV Observations I: NUV and Blue/Optical
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.09150

The Metal-Rich Atmosphere of the Neptune HAT-P-26b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.09151

eleanor: An open-source tool for extracting light curves from the TESS Full-Frame Images
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.09152

Precise radial velocities of giant stars. XII. Evidence against the proposed planet Aldebaran b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.09157

Characterizing the Atmospheres of Irradiated Exoplanets at High Spectral Resolution
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.09173

The Weird Detector: Flagging periodic, coherent signals of arbitrary shape in time series photometry
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.09213

Qatar Exoplanet Survey: Qatar-8b, 9b and 10b — A Hot Saturn and Two Hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.09258

Imaging Cool Giant Planets in Reflected Light: Science Investigations and Synergy with Habitable Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.09322

On possible types of magnetospheres of hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.09459

The role of dissipative evolution for three-planet, near-resonant extrasolar systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.09474

Detecting Earth-like Biosignatures on Rocky Exoplanets around Nearby Stars with Ground-based Extremely Large Telescopes
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.09523

The Pointing Limits of Transiting Exoplanet Light Curve Characterization with Pixel Level De-correlation
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.09629

Self-stabilizing laser sails based on optical metasurfaces
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.09077

High-Drag Interstellar Objects And Galactic Dynamical Streams
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.09496