Interstellar Updates

How to Search for Dead Cosmic Civilizations
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/how-to-search-for-dead-cosmic-civilizations/

Could Solar Radiation Pressure Explain ‘Oumuamua’s Peculiar Acceleration?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.11490

Dynamical and Biological Panspermia Constraints Within Multiplanet Exosystems
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2017.1786

New instrument joins the hunt for Earth-like planets
https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-tech/new-instrument-joins-hunt-earth-planets

A Precision Doppler Spectrograph for the Anglo-Australian Telescope
https://newt.phys.unsw.edu.au/~cgt/Veloce/Veloce.html

The 55 Cancri system reassessed
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2018/11/aa33154-18/aa33154-18.html

Planets around evolved intermediate-mass stars II. Are there really planets around IC 4651 No. 9122, NGC 2423 No. 3, and NGC 4349 No. 127?
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2018/11/aa33152-18/aa33152-18.html

Exoplanet Transits with Next-Generation Radio Telescopes
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.11493

The limit of the gyrochronology – A new age determination technique: the tidal-chronology
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.12172

The Effects of Stellar Companions on Exoplanet Radius Distributions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.10170

Evolving Asteroid Starships: A Bio-Inspired Approach for Interstellar Space Systems
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328307121_Evolving_Asteroid_Starships_A_Bio-Inspired_Approach_for_Interstellar_Space_Systems

Using the Interstellar Probe to Decipher Exoplanet Signatures of Our Planets from the Very Local Interstellar Medium
https://surveygizmoresponseuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/fileuploads/15647/4139225/196-8e2d83e91e913e0e21828742ad517df7_ISP_Exoplanet_White_Paper_v2.pdf

Project Glowworm: Testing Laser Sail Propulsion in LEO
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328202365_Project_Glowworm_Testing_Laser_Sail_Propulsion_in_LEO

Eccentricity is Not Responsible for Odd Harmonics in HAT-P-7 and Kepler-13A
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.11021

Catching a planet: A tidal capture origin for the exomoon candidate Kepler 1625b I
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.11060

Wave-Mean Flow Interactions in the Atmospheric Circulation of Tidally Locked Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.11231

Tidal heating in multilayer planets: Application to the TRAPPIST-1 system
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.11254

Constraining the environment and habitability of TRAPPIST-1
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.11255

Coronagraphy review and WFIRST/AFTA
http://sites.nationalacademies.org/cs/groups/bpasite/documents/webpage/bpa_160851.pdf

Matrix-propagator approach to compute fluid Love numbers and applicability to extrasolar planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.10064

MOA-2016-BLG-319Lb: Microlensing Planet Subject to Rare Minor-image Perturbation Degeneracy in Determining Planet Parameters
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aae38e

Techniques for Finding Close-in, Low-mass Planets around Evolved Intermediate-mass Stars
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aadf82

PlanetPack3: A radial-velocity and transit analysis tool for exoplanets
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213133718300969

SCExAO/CHARIS Near-Infrared Direct Imaging, Spectroscopy, and Forward-Modeling of kappa And b: A Likely Young, Low-Gravity Superjovian Companion
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.09457

The LEECH Exoplanet Imaging Survey: Limits on Planet Occurrence Rates Under Conservative Assumptions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.10560

Kmt-2016-blg-1397b: Kmtnet-only discovery of a microlens giant planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.10792

An optical transmission spectrum for the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-121b measured with the Hubble Space Telescope
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.10969

A Theory of Exoplanet Transits with Light Scattering
https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.05564

Thorium in solar twins: implications for habitability in rocky planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.10413

Back to “Normal” for the Disintegrating Planet Candidate KIC 12557548 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.10012

The 3D thermal, dynamical and chemical structure of the atmosphere of HD 189733b: implications of wind-driven chemistry for the emission phase curve
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.09724

A Catalog of Stars Observed Simultaneously by Kepler and TESS
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/aae9e2

Climate Modeling of a Potential ExoVenus
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.10072

Compact Multi-planet Systems are more Common around Metal-poor Hosts
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aae710

Science with an ngVLA: Observing the Effects of Chemistry on Exoplanets and Planet Formation
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.09550