Interstellar Updates

Cold Hibernated Elastic Memory Structure: Self-Deployable Technology and Its Applications
https://www.crcpress.com/Cold-Hibernated-Elastic-Memory-Structure-Self-Deployable-Technology-and/Sokolowski/p/book/9780429425950

Exoplanet Imaging from Space: EXCEDE & Expectations
https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2018/12/26/exoplanet-imaging-from-space-excede-expectations/

HATS-71b: A giant planet transiting an M3 dwarf star in TESS Sector 1
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.09406

The GTC exoplanet transit spectroscopy survey X. Stellar spots versus Rayleigh scattering: the case of HAT-P-11b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.10154

The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: Searching Boyajian’s Star for Laser Line Emission
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.10161

Stability of a rotating asteroid housing a space station
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.10436

The Lucky Earth Hypothesis
http://geopolicraticus.tumblr.com/post/181412091932/the-lucky-earth-hypothesis

Astrobiology and Astrotheology in Creative Mutual Interaction
https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/9789813235045_0002

Extraterrestrial Preservation of Terrestrial Heritage
http://geopolicraticus.tumblr.com/post/181304807197/extraterrestrial-preservation-of-terrestrial

A transiting super-Earth close to the inner edge of the habitable zone of an M0 dwarf star
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/sty3467/5259110

Orbital Motion of the Wide Planetary-Mass Companion GSC 6214-210 b: No Evidence for Dynamical Scattering
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.08860

Detection and characterization of an ultra-dense sub-Neptune planet orbiting the Sun-like star HD 119130
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.09242

The discovery of WASP-134b, WASP-134c, WASP-137b, WASP-143b and WASP-146b: three hot Jupiters and a pair of warm Jupiters orbiting Solar-type stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.09264

Experimental test of a 40 cm-long R=100 000 spectrometer for exoplanet characterisation
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.09272

An Astrobiology Strategy for the Search for Life in the Universe
https://www.nap.edu/catalog/25252/an-astrobiology-strategy-for-the-search-for-life-in-the-universe

Bright Opportunities for Atmospheric Characterization of Small Planets: Masses and Radii of K2-3 b, c, d and GJ3470 b from Radial Velocity Measurements and Spitzer Transits
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.08241

Kepler-730: A hot Jupiter system with a close-in, transiting, Earth-sized planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.08358

Juliet: a versatile modelling tool for transiting and non-transiting exoplanetary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.08549

NASA and the Search for Technosignatures: A Report from the NASA Technosignatures Workshop
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.08681