Interstellar Updates

A Wild ‘Interstellar Probe’ Mission Idea Is Gaining Momentum
https://www.space.com/42935-nasa-interstellar-probe-mission-idea.html

Signs of life on a global scale: Earth as a laboratory for exoplanet biosignatures
http://www.portlandpresspublishing.com/sites/default/files/biochemist/Biochemist%20Space%20issue%20Dec%202018/BioDEC18_exoplanet%20biosignatures%20pg%2022.pdf

The fate of planetesimal discs in young open clusters: implications for 1I/’Oumuamua, the Kuiper belt, the Oort cloud and more
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02465

Testing the Detectability of Extraterrestrial O2 with the ELTs using Real Data with Real Noise
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02469

The Oxyometer: A Novel Instrument Concept for Characterizing Exoplanet Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02562

On the formation of our solar system and many other protoplanetary systems observed by ALMA and SPHERE
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02593

Conundrums and constraints concerning the formation of our solar system — An alternative view
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02594

Short life and abrupt death of PicSat, a small 3U CubeSat dreaming of exoplanet detection
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02677

Time-variable electromagnetic star-planet interaction: The TRAPPIST-1 system as an exemplary case
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02747

Secular spin-axis dynamics of exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02831

Review: Far-Infrared Instrumentation and Technology Development for the Next Decade
https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.02389

Young planets orbiting red dwarfs may lack ingredients for life
http://spacenewsfeed.com/index.php/news/2521-young-planets-orbiting-red-dwarfs-may-lack-ingredients-for-life

NASA’s TESS Rounds Up its First Planets, Snares Far-flung Supernovae
https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1542/nasas-tess-rounds-up-its-first-planets-snares-far-flung-supernovae/

Why planetary and exoplanetary protection differ: The case of long duration genesis missions to habitable but sterile M-dwarf oxygen planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02286

Transit Least Squares: An optimized transit detection algorithm to search for periodic transits of small planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02015

Killing Planet Candidates with EVEREST
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02017

Time-resolved image polarimetry of Trappist-1 during planetary transits
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02041

The Rise of ROME (Radio Observations of Magnetized Exoplanets) I. A Multiwavelength Analysis of the Star-Planet Interaction in the HD 189733 System
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02048

Assessing the Intrinsic Uncertainty and Structural Stability of Planetary Models: 1) Parameterized Thermal-Tectonic History Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02136

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs – The enigmatic planetary system GJ 4276: One eccentric planet or two planets in a 2:1 resonance?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02367

The secondary transit of the hot Jupiter WASP-121b at 2 μm
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02383

Ultrahigh Acceleration Neutral Particle Beamer: Concept, Costs and Realities
https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2019/01/07/ultrahigh-acceleration-neutral-particle-beamer-concept-costs-and-realities/

Charge generating devices and methods of making and use thereof
https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/71/3f/3f/4710d6cb02da8d/US20180372891A1.pdf

Scientists pleased with TESS exoplanet mission
https://spacenews.com/scientists-pleased-with-tess-exoplanet-mission/

Comparing Non-Redundant Masking and Filled-Aperture Kernel Phase for Exoplanet Detection and Characterization
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.01266

Photosynthesis on habitable planets around low-mass stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.01270

Rotational Light Curves of Jupiter from UV to Mid-Infrared and Implications for Brown Dwarfs and Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.01323

Estimation of Planetary Photometric Emissions for Extremely Close-in Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.01361

A gap in HD 92945’s broad planetesimal disc revealed by ALMA
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.01406

Two Super-Earths in the 3:2 MMR around KOI-1599
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.01435

The BEBOP radial-velocity survey for circumbinary planets I. Eight years of CORALIE observations of 47 single-line eclipsing binaries and abundance constraints on the masses of circumbinary planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.01627

A Hot Saturn Orbiting An Oscillating Late Subgiant Discovered by TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.01643

Analytic solutions to the maximum and average exoplanet transit depth for common stellar limb darkening laws
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.01730

Close-in Super-Earths: The first and the last stages of planet formation in an MRI-accreting disc
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.01800

The XUV irradiation and likely atmospheric escape of the super-Earth π Men c
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.01875

Star-disc (mis-)alignment in Rho Oph and Upper Sco: insights from spatially resolved disc systems with K2 rotation periods
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.01929

Two Jovian planets around the giant star HD202696. A growing population of packed massive planetary pairs around massive stars?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.01935

Revisiting the Long-Period Transiting Planets from Kepler
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.01974

Modeling microlensing events with MulensModel
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.01003

Astrosociology and the Search for Technosignatures
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2019-1517

The Dipole Drive: A New Concept in Space Propulsion
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2019-1122

Dynamics and Estimation of Origami-Inspired Deployable Space Structures: A Review
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2019-0480

Assuring Spacecraft Swarm Byzantine Resilience
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2019-0224

Data Reduction Pipeline of the TOU Optical Very High Resolution Spectrograph and Its sub-m s−1 Performance
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz028/5274148

Close-in Super-Earths: The first and the last stages of planet formation in an MRI-accreting disc
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz004/5274141

K2-288Bb: A Small Temperate Planet in a Low-mass Binary System Discovered by Citizen Scientists
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aafa70

Project Lyra: Sending a spacecraft to 1I/’Oumuamua (former A/2017 U1), the interstellar asteroid
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576518317004

Study of terrestrial glints based on DSCOVR observations
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2018EA000509

Flat Spectrum Radio Continuum Emission Associated with ε Eridani
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.00903

Ultrahigh Acceleration Neutral Particle Beam-Driven Sails
https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2019/01/03/ultrahigh-acceleration-neutral-particle-beam-driven-sails/

Precovery of Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite Single Transits with Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aaf23c

VLT/SPHERE Multiwavelength High-contrast Imaging of the HD 115600 Debris Disk: New Constraints on the Dust Geometry and the Presence of Young Giant Planets
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aaf1bd

Bifurcation in the Growth of Continental Crust
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031920118301924

HAZMAT. V. The Ultraviolet and X-ray Evolution of K Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.00502

Wobble: a data-driven method for precision radial velocities
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.00503

Re-Evaluating Small Long-Period Confirmed Planets From Kepler
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.00506

Turning up the heat on `Oumuamua
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.00508

The atmospheric circulation and climate of terrestrial planets orbiting Sun-like and M-dwarf stars over a broad range of planetary parameters
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.00567

Physics of Planet Trapping with Applications to HL Tau
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.00778