Interstellar Updates

The Gravitational Threshold of Spacefaring Civilizations
http://geopolicraticus.tumblr.com/post/172681556712/the-gravitational-threshold-of-spacefaring

Space Exploration: It’s Impact on Society–A Critical Review
http://www.ijater.com/files/NCRTSTM_01_18.pdf

The Traveling-Wave Tube in the History of Telecommunication
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.11497

Spacedrives and Conservation Laws
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/full/10.2514/1.A34116

Escape and fractionation of volatiles and noble gases from Mars-sized planetary embryos and growing protoplanets
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103517301677

The First Naked-Eye Superflare Detected from Proxima Centauri
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.02001

A HARDCORE model for constraining an exoplanet’s core size
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.02019

Giant planets: good neighbors for habitable worlds?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.02183

K-Stacker: Keplerian image recombination for the direct detection of exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.02192

Using asteroseismology to characterise exoplanet host stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.02214

Low mass planet migration in magnetically torqued dead zones – II. Flow-locked and runaway migration, and a torque prescription
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.02290

Formation of the terrestrial planets in the solar system around 1 au via radial concentration of planetesimals
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.02361

Advanced Diffractive MetaFilm Sailcraft
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2018_Phase_I_Phase_II/Advanced_Diffractive_MetaFilm_Sailcraft

Planetary population synthesis
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.01532

HATS-39b, HATS-40b, HATS-41b, and HATS-42b: Three Inflated Hot Jupiters and a Super-Jupiter Transiting F Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.01623

SOPHIE velocimetry of Kepler transit candidates XVIII. Radial velocity confirmation, absolute masses and radii, and origin of the Kepler-419 multiplanetary system
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.01869

Thermal emission of WASP-48b in the Ks-band
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.01913

Resolving faint structures in the debris disk around TWA7
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.01929

OGLE-2017-BLG-0373Lb: A Jovian Mass-Ratio Planet Exposes A New Accidental Microlensing Degeneracy
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.10067

How much does turbulence change the pebble isolation mass for planet formation?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.00924

An Empirical Planetesimal Belt Radius – Stellar Luminosity Relation
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.01094

Formation of Planetary Populations I: Metallicity & Envelope Opacity Effects
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.01148

Interstellar communication. X. The colors of optical SETI
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.01249

Interstellar communication. XI. Short pulse duration limits of optical SETI
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.01251

Signatures of Young Planets in the Continuum Emission From Protostellar Disks
https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.05123

Giant Planets: Good Neighbors for Habitable Worlds?
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aaaf72

On the Biohabitability of M-dwarf Planets
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aaae6e

Exploring H2O Prominence in Reflection Spectra of Cool Giant Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.00662

The direct imaging search for Earth 2.0: Quantifying biases and planetary false positives
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.00699

Formation of close-in super-Earths in evolving protoplanetary disks due to disk winds
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.01070

Astrobiology, Discovery, and Societal Impact
https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=lang_en&id=nSVTDwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA1&dq=interstellar+exploration&ots=AAuWewmA-1&sig=vf_I5XTST6vFRhhEYoOF8nEW6Do#v=onepage&q=interstellar%20exploration&f=false
http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/physics/computational-science-and-modelling/astrobiology-discovery-and-societal-impact?format=HB&isbn=9781108426763

Planetary Systems and the Origins of Life
https://epdf.tips/planetary-systems-and-the-origins-of-life-cambridge-astrobiology.html

General Relativistic Gravity Machine using Electromagneto-Torsion Field
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mario_Pinheiro/publication/323935548_General_Relativistic_Gravity_Machine_using_Electromagneto-Torsion_Field/links/5ab38489aca27217100261c3/General-Relativistic-Gravity-Machine-using-Electromagneto-Torsion-Field.pdf

The physics and chemistry of planetary atmospheres
http://eas.unige.ch/EWASS2018/session.jsp?id=S10

The Alpha Centauri system as a benchmark for stellar and planetary systems
http://eas.unige.ch/EWASS2018/session.jsp?id=SS27

Temperate super-Earths/mini-Neptunes around M/K dwarfs Consist of 2 Populations Distinguished by Their Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.00071

The diverse lives of massive protoplanets in self-gravitating discs
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.00583

Independent Discovery of a Sub-Earth in the Habitable Zone Around a Very Close Solar-Mass Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.00419

Assessing the Habitability of the TRAPPIST-1 System Using a 3D Climate Model
https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.05815

A search for technosignatures from 14 planetary systems in the Kepler field with the Green Bank Telescope at 1.15-1.73 GHz
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.01081