Interstellar Updates

Detection and characterization of an ultra-dense sub-Neptunian planet orbiting the Sun-like star K2-292
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2019/03/aa34952-18/aa34952-18.html

Carrington-class Events as a Great Filter for Electronic Civilizations in the Drake Equation
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ab028e

Update of the HITRAN collision-induced absorption section
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103518306997

A Statistical Comparative Planetology Approach to Maximize the Scientific Return of Future Exoplanet Characterization Efforts
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.05211

The Super-Earth Opportunity – Search for Habitable Exoplanets in the 2020s
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.05258

Multiple Populations of Extrasolar Gas Giants
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.05317

A hot rocky and a warm puffy super-Earth orbiting TOI-402 (HD 15337)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.05419

The Critical, Strategic Importance of Adaptive Optics-Assisted Ground-Based Telescopes for the Success of Future NASA Exoplanet Direct Imaging Missions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.05468

The radio search for technosignatures in the decade 2020-2030
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.05544

The ground-based optical transmission spectrum of hot Jupiter HAT-P-1b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.05563

The remote detectability of Earth’s biosphere through time and the importance of UV capability for characterizing habitable exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.05611

The HD 15337 transiting system: a pair of sub-Neptune-mass planets on the opposite sides of the radius gap
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.05623

Exoplanet Exergy: Why useful work matters for planetary habitabilty
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.05624

NASA criticized for proposed budget cuts
https://spacenews.com/nasa-criticized-for-proposed-budget-cuts/

The Great Colonization Debate
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/futures/articles-in-press

Tides between the TRAPPIST-1 planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.04501

Realistic On-The-Fly Outcomes of Planetary Collisions: Machine Learning Applied to Simulations of Giant Impacts
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.04507

Fate of the runner in hit-and-run collisions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.04508

Identification and characterization of the host stars in planetary microlensing with ELTs
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.04559

Asteroseismic determination of the stellar rotation period of the Kepler transiting planetary systems and its implications for the spin-orbit architecture
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.04669

Discovery of Cold Brown Dwarfs or Free-Floating Giant Planets Close to the Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.04686

On the Anomalous Acceleration of 1I/2017 U1 `Oumuamua
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.04723

Gliese 49: Activity evolution and detection of a super-Earth
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.04808

The sub-Jovian desert of exoplanets: parameter dependent boundaries and implications on planet formation
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.04817

The Metallicity-Period-Mass Diagram of low-mass exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.04937

The Importance of 3D General Circulation Models for Characterizing the Climate and Habitability of Terrestrial Extrasolar Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.05012

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