Interstellar Updates

The Psychology of Space Exploration: What Freud Might Have Said
https://www.amazon.com/Psychology-Space-Exploration-Freud-Might/dp/1138351407/

Electrostatic accelerated electrons within symmetric capacitors during field emission condition events exert bidirectional propellant-less thrust
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.04368

Overcoming the Limitations of the Energy-limited Approximation for Planet Atmospheric Escape
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aae586

Ab initio based equation of state of dense water for planetary and exoplanetary modeling
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.05658

Atmospheric dynamics and the variable transit of KELT-9 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.05776

Life-Detection Technologies for the Next Two Decades
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.06026

A New Planet in the Kepler-159 System From Transit Timing Variations
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.06486

Fermi and Lotka: The Long Odds of Survival in a Dangerous Universe
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.03088

Photometric limits on the high resolution imaging of exoplanets using the solar gravity lens
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576518307987

Constraining the period of the ringed secondary companion to the young star J1407 with photographic plates
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.05171

Limits on Clouds and Hazes for the TRAPPIST-1 Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.05210

Evidence of magnetic star-planet interactions in the HD 189733 system from orbitally-phased Ca II K variations
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.05253

Rings and gaps in protoplanetary disks: planets or snowlines?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.05614

Impacts of dust feedback on a dust ring induced by a planet in a protoplanetary disk
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.05635

A New Planet in the Kepler-159 System From Transit Timing Variations
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/sty2738/5124396

A Framework for Planet Detection with Faint Light-curve Echoes
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aadc5e

Methane in Analogs of Young Directly Imaged Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.04684

Confirmation of the radial velocity super-Earth K2-18c with HARPS and CARMENES
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.04731

From rock to life. A mass balance analysis of oxidative biological weathering and biosignatures formation
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.05128

Climates of Warm Earth-like Planets II: Rotational ‘Goldilocks’ Zones for Fractional Habitability and Silicate Weathering
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.05139

Early evolution of purple retinal pigments on Earth and implications for exoplanet biosignatures
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.05150

Nanophotonic Heterostructures for Efficient Propulsion and Radiative Cooling of Relativistic Light Sails
https://authors.library.caltech.edu/88412/1/acs.nanolett.8b02035.pdf

Supporting Information for “Nanophotonic Heterostructures for Efficient Propulsion and Radiative Cooling of Relativistic Light Sails”
https://authors.library.caltech.edu/88412/3/nl8b02035_si_001.pdf

Enhanced constraints on the interior composition and structure of terrestrial exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.04615

How to Characterize the Atmosphere of a Transiting Exoplanet
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.04175

Measuring the D/H Ratios of Exoplanets and Brown Dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.04241

The construction of averaged planetary motion theory by means of computer algebra system Piranha
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.04270

Galactic Panspermia
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.04307

Reply to Comment on “Gravitational Waves From Ultra- Short Period Exoplanets”
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.04319

How do disks and planetary systems in high-mass open clusters differ from those around field stars?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.04453

Capturing the oxidation of silicon carbide in rocky exoplanetary interiors
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.04544

K2-140b and K2-180b – Characterization of a hot Jupiter and a mini-Neptune from the K2 mission
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.04601

Revisiting the potassium feature of WASP-31b at high-resolution
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.03693

Deep exploration of ε Eridani with Keck Ms-band vortex coronagraphy and radial velocities: mass and orbital parameters of the giant exoplanet
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.03794

60 Validated Planets from K2 Campaigns 5-8
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.04074