Interstellar Updates

Solar Sails: Traveling the Solar System (and Beyond!) with Sunlight
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20180006969.pdf

Brown dwarf companion with a period of 4.6 yr interacting with the hot Jupiter CoRoT-20 b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2018/11/aa33180-18/aa33180-18.html

The Ring Structure in the MWC 480 Disk Revealed by ALMA
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.04074

The chemical composition of planet building blocks as predicted by stellar population synthesis
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.04096

Magnetic Fields on the Flare Star Trappist-1: Consequences for Radius Inflation and Planetary Habitability
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.04149

Integrating light-curve and atmospheric modelling of transiting exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.04686

Disentangling the planet from the star in late type M dwarfs: A case study of TRAPPIST-1g
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.04877

Discovery of a Transiting Adolescent Sub-Neptune Exoplanet with K2
https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.07320

Comets, Enceladus and panspermia
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10509-018-3465-0

NASA’s Astrobiology Program Evolving to Meet the Future
https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/nasas-astrobiology-program-evolving-to-meet-the-future/

NASA to shut down astrobiology virtual institute
https://spacenews.com/nasa-to-shut-down-astrobiology-virtual-institute/

Stability of planets in triple star systems
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2018/11/aa33097-18/aa33097-18.html

HD 189733 b: bow shock or no shock?
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2018/11/aa33567-18/aa33567-18.html

On the robustness of analysis techniques for molecular detections using high resolution exoplanet spectroscopy
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/sty2994/5173097

Efficient Joint Sampling of Impact Parameters and Transit Depths in Transiting Exoplanet Light Curves
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/aaef38

Super-Earths in the TW Hya disc
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.03636

Planetary tidal interactions and the rotational evolution of low-mass stars – The Pleiades’ anomaly
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2018/11/aa33576-18/aa33576-18.html

An automated search for transiting exocomets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.03102

Sculpting the Valley in the Radius Distribution of Small Exoplanets as a by-product of Planet Formation: The Core-Powered Mass-Loss Mechanism
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.03202

Bayesian Deep Learning for Exoplanet Atmospheric Retrieval
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.03390

Polarized scattered light from self-luminous exoplanets. Three-dimensional scattering radiative transfer with ARTES
https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.09427

«Impulsar»: New Application for High Power/Energy High Repetition Rate Pulse-Periodic Lasers
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-030-02952-4

An optical transmission spectrum of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-33b. First indication of aluminum oxide in an exoplanet
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.02573

Contribution of the core to the thermal evolution of sub-Neptunes
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.02588

Retired A Stars and Their Companions VIII: 15 New Planetary Signals Around Subgiants and Transit Parameters for California Planet Search Planets with Subgiant Hosts
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.03043

Scientists push back against Harvard ‘alien spacecraft’ theory
https://phys.org/news/2018-11-scientists-harvard-alien-spacecraft-theory.html

Prospects for TTV Detection and Dynamical Constraints with TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.01970

Ground-based Spectroscopy of the Exoplanet XO-2b using a Systematic Wavelength Calibration
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.02060

Techniques for Finding Close-in, Low-mass Planets around Subgiants
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.02077

Vortex fiber nulling for exoplanet observations. I. Experimental demonstration in monochromatic light
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.02083

Detecting Unresolved Binaries in TESS Data with Speckle Imaging
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.02108

HD 1397b: a transiting warm giant planet orbiting a V = 7.8 mag sub-giant star discovered by TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.02156

Atmospheric mass loss from hot Jupiters irradiated by stellar superflares
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.02303

Predicting Exoplanets Mass and Radius: A Nonparametric Approach
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.02324

Tidal synchronization of close-in satellites and exoplanets. III. Tidal dissipation revisited and application to Enceladus
https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.09229