Interstellar Updates

Diving into Exoplanets: Are Water Seas the Most Common?
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2017.1720

Hachimoji DNA and RNA: A genetic system with eight building blocks
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/363/6429/884

Ultra-Stable Environment Control for the NEID Spectrometer: Design and Performance Demonstration
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.07729

Low albedos of hot to ultra-hot Jupiters in the optical to near-infrared transition regime
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.07944

Comparative analysis of the influence of Sgr A* and nearby active galactic nuclei on the mass loss of known exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.07950

Hydrogen Cyanide in Nitrogen-Rich Atmospheres of Rocky Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.08022

A Fast Approximate Approach to Microlensing Survey Analysis
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.08092

Introduction: Detectability of Future Earth
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.08035

Two new free-floating or wide-orbit planets from microlensing
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2019/02/aa34557-18/aa34557-18.html

A highly structured disk around the planet host PDS 70 revealed by high-angular resolution observations with ALMA
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.07639

Chemical connections between low-mass stars and planets building blocks investigated by stellar population synthesis
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.07484

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