Interstellar Updates

Crystal structure and equation of state of Fe-Si alloys at super-Earth core conditions
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/4/eaao5864

Water Partitioning in Planetary Embryos and Protoplanets with Magma Oceans
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.09294

Measuring Planetary Atmospheric Dynamics with Doppler Spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.09445

Influence of periodic orbits on the formation of giant planetary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.09591

Searching for Exoplanets Around X-Ray Binaries with Accreting White Dwarfs, Neutron Stars, and Black Holes
https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.05762

Increased Tidal Dissipation Using Advanced Rheological Models: Implications for Io and Tidally Active Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.06701

Astrometric detectability of systems with unseen companions: effects of the Earth orbital motion
https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.00290

Kepler Data Validation I — Architecture, Diagnostic Tests, and Data Products for Vetting Transiting Planet Candidates
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.04526

The potential habitability of TRAPPIST-1—no aliens yet, but a lot of data
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-potential-habitability-trappist-1no-aliens-lot.html

Debris Disks: Probing Planet Formation
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.08636

Exoplanets: past, present, and future
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.08907

Retired A Stars Revisited: An Updated Giant Planet Occurrence Rate as a Function of Stellar Metallicity and Mass
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.09082

Photometric Follow-up Transit (Primary Eclipse) Observations of WASP-43 b and TrES-3b and A Study on Their Transit Timing Variations
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.09159

Radio Emission from the Exoplanetary System epsilon Eridani
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aab3cb

Biases in Planet Occurrence Caused by Unresolved Binaries in Transit Surveys
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07764

GPI spectra of HR 8799 c, d, and e from 1.5 to 2.4μm with KLIP Forward Modeling
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07774

Comparison of the power-2 limb-darkening law from the Stagger-grid to Kepler light curves of transiting exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07943

Modeling Exoplanetary Atmospheres: An Overview
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.08149

Exploring the realm of scaled Solar System analogs with HARPS
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.08329

SETI with Gaia: The observational signatures of nearly complete Dyson spheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.08351

PyMieDAP: a Python–Fortran tool to compute fluxes and polarization signals of (exo)planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.08357

A Thought Experiment Relevant to the Fermi Paradox
https://geopolicraticus.wordpress.com/2018/04/21/a-thought-experiment-relevant-to-the-fermi-paradox/

Exoplanet Biosignatures: A Framework for Their Assessment
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2017.1737

Woodpeckers and Diamonds: Some Aspects of Evolutionary Convergence in Astrobiology
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2017.1741

An Accurate Mass Determination for Kepler-1655b, a Moderately Irradiated World with a Significant Volatile Envelope
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aab8f3

Observational Techniques With Transiting Exoplanetary Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07357

A universal spin-mass relation for brown dwarfs and planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07380

Analyzing astronomical data with Apache Spark [not specifically interstellar-oriented, but useful in analysis]
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07501

The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: 1.1-1.9 GHz observations of 692 Nearby Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.03491

The GAPS Programme with HARPS-N at TNG XVII. Line profile indicators and kernel regression as diagnostics of radial-velocity variations due to stellar activity in solar-like stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07039

The Peculiar Atmospheric Chemistry of KELT-9b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07137