Interstellar Updates

K2-264: A transiting multi-planet system in the Praesepe open cluster
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/sty3464/5255202

The Atmospheric Radiation Interaction Simulator (AtRIS) – Description and Validation
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2018JA026042

The early instability scenario: terrestrial planet formation during the giant planet instability, and the effect of collisional fragmentation
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.07590

HATS-54b-HATS-58Ab: five new transiting hot Jupiters including one with a possible temperate companion
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.07668

Circumstellar dust distribution in systems with two planets in resonance
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.07698

Modeling star-planet interactions in far-out planetary and exoplanetary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.07767

SPHERE dynamical and spectroscopic characterization of HD142527B
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.07814

Detection of Periodicity Based on Independence Tests – IV. Phase Distance Correlation Periodogram for Two-Dimensional Astrometry
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.07928

The independent discovery of planet candidates around low mass stars and astrophysical false positives from the first two TESS sectors
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.08145

Climate Sensitivity to Carbon Dioxide and the Moist Greenhouse Threshold of Earth-like Planets under an Increasing Solar Forcing
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aaea5f

A search for accreting young companions embedded in circumstellar disks: High-contrast Hα imaging with VLT/SPHERE
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.06993

Systematic Serendipity: A Test of Unsupervised Machine Learning as a Method for Anomaly Detection
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.07156

ACCESS: Ground-based Optical Transmission Spectroscopy of the Hot Jupiter WASP-4b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.07177

Spectral and orbital characterisation of the directly imaged giant planet HIP 65426 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.07198

A new class of Super-Earths formed from high-temperature condensates: HD219134 b, 55 Cnc e, WASP-47 e
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.07222

Masses and radii for the three super-Earths orbiting GJ 9827, and implications for the composition of small exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.07302

Time’s arrow and life’s origin
https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.01783

Biological Homochirality on the Earth, or in the Universe? A Selective Review
https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/10/12/749

Device providing non-inertial propulsion while conserving propellant mass and method therefor
https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/fb/2d/3a/21d91180dc54e8/US20180347550A1.pdf

Relative Likelihood of Success in the Search for Primitive versus Intelligent Extraterrestrial Life
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2018.1936

MuSCAT2: 4-color Simultaneous Camera for the 1.52m Telescopio Carlos Sanchez
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.01908

Gas Phase Chemistry of Cool Exoplanet Atmospheres: Insight from Laboratory Simulations
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.06957

The early instability scenario: terrestrial planet formation during the giant planet instability, and the effect of collisional fragmentation
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103518306262

Synergy between asteroseismology and exoplanet science: an outlook
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.06150

Predicting the Extreme Ultraviolet Radiation Environment of Exoplanets Around Low-Mass Stars: the TRAPPIST-1 System
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.06159

The Transit Light Source Effect II: The Impact of Stellar Heterogeneity on Transmission Spectra of Planets Orbiting Broadly Sun-like Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.06184

Albedos, Equilibrium Temperatures, and Surface Temperatures of Habitable Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.06606

Stellar activity analysis of Barnard’s Star: Very slow rotation and evidence for long-term activity cycle
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.06712

Attitude Dynamics of Electric Sail from Multibody Perspective
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/1.G003625

Planetary Interiors As a Control for Habitability
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm18/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/417367

Catching a Planet: A Tidal Capture Origin for the Oxomoon Candidate Kepler 1625b I
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aaf3a7

Application of an evolution strategy in planetary ephemeris modeling
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0273117718307075

Qatar Exoplanet Survey: Qatar-7b — A Very Hot Jupiter Orbiting a Metal Rich F-Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.05601

Chaotic Tides in Migrating Gas Giants: Forming Hot and Transient Warm Jupiters via High-Eccentricity Migration
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.05618

HD219666b: a hot-Neptune from TESS Sector 1
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.05881

Ephemeris refinement of 21 Hot Jupiter exoplanets with high timing uncertainties
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.05882

Constraining the orbit of the planet-hosting binary τ Boötis: Clues about planetary formation and migration
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.05885

Starry eyes
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6420/1230

Hubble PanCET: an extended upper atmosphere of neutral hydrogen around the warm Neptune GJ 3470b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.05119

Shock-Generating Planetesimals Perturbed by a Giant Planet in a Gas Disk
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.05250

Hints for a Turnover at the Snow Line in the Giant Planet Occurrence Rate
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.05569