Interstellar Updates

A Rapid, Low-Cost Approach to Permanently Extend Life Beyond Earth
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20180007936.pdf

Laboratory for Agnostic Biosignatures
https://www.agnosticbiosignatures.org/

Pulsed Magnetic Nozzle for Fusion Propulsion
http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2018.71.119

Fission Fragment Rocket: Fuel Production and Structural Considerations
http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2018.71.126

Flying on a Rainbow: A Solar-Driven Diffractive Sailcraft
http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2018.71.130

Evaluation of the Hazard of Dust Impacts on Interstellar Spacecraft
http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2018.71.133

A Science-Driven Mission to an Exoplanet
http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2018.71.140

Contact with Alien Biomes: Possible Biochemical Incompatibilities
http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2018.71.151

Incidence of planet candidates in open clusters and a planet confirmation
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2018/12/aa33123-18/aa33123-18.html

Measuring precise radial velocities and cross-correlation function line-profile variations using a Skew Normal density
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.12718

A Transmission Spectrum Of HD 189733b From Multiple Broadband Filter Observations
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/sty3368/5237730

Detecting Ocean Glint on Exoplanets Using Multiphase Mapping
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aaed3a

Angular Momentum of Stars and their Planets
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/aae6b1

High-Resolution Transit Spectroscopy of Warm Saturns
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.02748

Investigating the presence of two belts in the HD15115 system
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.02750

Dynamical origin of S-type planets in close binary stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.02754

A ground-based NUV secondary eclipse observation of KELT-9b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.02773

Ground-based detection of an extended helium atmosphere in the Saturn-mass exoplanet WASP-69b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.03119

Host Stars and their Effects on Exoplanet Atmospheres
https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783030114510

Spectrally resolved helium absorption from the extended atmosphere of a warm Neptune-mass exoplanet
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.02189

Ground-based detection of an extended helium atmosphere in the Saturn-mass exoplanet WASP-69b
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2018/12/06/science.aat5348

Introduction: Detectability of Future Earth
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016328718304683

Planet-star interactions with precise transit timing. I. The refined orbital decay rate for WASP-12 b and initial constraints for HAT-P-23 b, KELT-1 b, KELT-16 b, WASP-33 b, and WASP-103 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.02438

Detection of He I λ10830 Å absorption on HD 189733 b with CARMENES high-resolution transmission spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.02453

The imprint of X-ray photoevaporation of planet-forming discs on the orbital distribution of giant planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.02173

First Light for SPECULOOS
https://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso1839a/

The Orbital Period Prior for Single Transits
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/aaf50c

qpower2 – a fast and accurate algorithm for the computation of exoplanet transit light curves with the power-2 limb-darkening law
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.01606

Shadow Imaging of Transiting Objects
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.01618

Obliquity Tides May Drive WASP-12b’s Rapid Orbital Decay
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.01624

Circumbinary Planets Orbiting the sdB Binary NY Virginis: An Updated Two Planet Solution
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.01726

Evolutionary models of cold and low-mass planets: Cooling curves, magnitudes, and detectability
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.02027

Observability of hydrogen-rich exospheres in Earth-like exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.02145

Orbit Orientation of the Planet in τ Boo (HD 120136)
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1990341318040090

These dusty young stars are changing the rules of planet-building
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07591-8

A novel mixture model using the multivariate normal mean–variance mixture of Birnbaum–Saunders distributions and its application to extrasolar planets
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047259X18300599

Solar System Formation in the Context of Extra-Solar Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.01033

Towards new solutions for scientific computing: the case of Julia
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.01219

Inclined Massive Planets in a Protoplanetary Disc: Gap Opening, Disc Breaking, and Observational Signatures
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.01262

Transit analysis of the CoRoT-5, CoRoT-8, CoRoT-12, CoRoT-18, CoRoT-20, and CoRoT-27 systems with combined ground- and space-based photometry
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.01536

Detection of Helium in the Atmosphere of the Exo-Neptune HAT-P-11b
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aaf166/meta

Imaging and Characterization of Extrasolar Planets with the Next Generation of Space Telescopes
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/8/12/442

Minimum Viable Human Population with Intelligent Interventions
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329012008_Minimum_Viable_Human_Population_with_Intelligent_Interventions

A Catalog of Spectra, Albedos, and Colors of Solar System Bodies for Exoplanet Comparison
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2017.1763

The Effects of Stellar Companions on the Observed Transiting Exoplanet Radius Distribution
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aaed2d

The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: No Evidence of Claimed Periodic Spectral Modulations in High-resolution Optical Spectra of Nearby Stars
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/aaeae0

Kepler Data Validation II — Transit Model Fitting and Multiple-Planet Search
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.00103

Hot Jupiter accretion: 3D MHD simulations of star-planet wind interaction
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.00665