Interstellar Updates

Polynesian Civilization and the Future Colonization of Space
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2085&context=ccr

The CORALIE survey for southern extrasolar planets XVIII Three new massive planets and two low mass brown dwarfs at separation larger than 5 AU
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332173182_The_CORALIE_survey_for_southern_extrasolar_planets_XVIII_Three_new_massive_planets_and_two_low_mass_brown_dwarfs_at_separation_larger_than_5_AU

Stellar activity and planetary atmosphere evolution in tight binary star systems
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332494435_Stellar_activity_and_planetary_atmosphere_evolution_in_tight_binary_star_systems

Could there be an undetected inner planet near the stability limit in Kepler-1647?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.07929

NGTS-6b: An Ultra Hot-Jupiter Orbiting a Metal-rich star
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.07997

Linking the evolution of terrestrial interiors and an early outgassed atmosphere to astrophysical observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.08300

Foundations of Interstellar Studies Workshop 2019
https://www.fisw.space/fisw-2019

Planetary Exploration, Horizon 2061
https://h2061-tlse.sciencesconf.org/

Discovery of a Third Transiting Planet in the Kepler-47 Circumbinary System
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.07255

Observation of a possible superflare on Proxima Centauri
https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnrasl/slz054/5472906

Excitation of Planetary Obliquities Through Planet-Disk Interactions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.07338

Orbital decay of short-period gas giants under evolving tides
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.07596

Dual Use Exoplanet Telescope (DUET)
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2019_Phase_I_Phase_II/duet/

Power for Interstellar Fly-by
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2019_Phase_I_Phase_II/Power_for_Interstellar_Fly_by/

Self-Guided Beamed Propulsion for Breakthrough Interstellar Missions
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2019_Phase_I_Phase_II/Self_Guided_Beamed_Propulsion/

Diffractive Lightsails
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2019_Phase_I_Phase_II/Diffractive_Lightsails/

On the feasibility of studying the exospheres of Earth-like exoplanets by Lyman-α monitoring
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10686-018-9574-5

Indications for transit timing variations in the exo-Neptune HAT-P-26b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.06360

On the Mass Function, Multiplicity, and Origins of Wide-Orbit Giant Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.06438

Impacts of Quantum Chemistry Calculations on Exoplanetary Science, Planetary Astronomy, and Astrophysics
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.07161

Discovery of a Meteor of Interstellar Origin
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.07224

Oumuamua and Scout ET Probes
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.04914

Gravitat: Proposal for a Standard Design Vessel for Space Settlement
https://space.nss.org/media/NSS-JOURNAL-Gravitat-Standard-Design-Vessel.pdf

Searching for Atmospheric Bioindicators in Planets around the Two Nearby Stars, Proxima Centauri and Epsilon Eridani—Test Cases for Retrieval of Atmospheric Gases with Infrared Spectroscopy
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2018.1938

TESS Delivers Its First Earth-sized Planet and a Warm Sub-Neptune
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab12ed

The unbiased frequency of planetary signatures around single and binary white dwarfs using Spitzer and Hubble
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.05891

Developing a vision for exoplanetary transit spectroscopy: a shared window on the analysis of planetary atmospheres and of stellar magnetic structure
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.05976

Pushing the Limits of Exoplanet Discovery via Direct Imaging with Deep Learning
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.06155

Dust-to-gas ratio resurgence in circumstellar disks due to the formation of giant planets: the case of HD 163296
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.04361

The fate of planetesimal discs in young open clusters: implications for 1I/’Oumuamua, the Kuiper belt, the Oort cloud and more
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02465

The NASA Twins Study: A multidimensional analysis of a year-long human spaceflight
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/364/6436/eaau8650

Simulations of Water Vapor and Clouds on Rapidly Rotating and Tidally Locked Planets: A 3D Model Intercomparison
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab09f1

On degeneracies in retrievals of exoplanetary transmission spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.05356

The Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey: Giant Planet and Brown Dwarf Demographics From 10-100 AU
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.05358

First Light of Engineered Diffusers at the Nordic Optical Telescope Reveal Time Variability in the Optical Eclipse Depth of WASP-12b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.05362

Survival Rates of Planets in Open Clusters: the Pleiades, Hyades, and Praesepe clusters
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.08598