Interstellar Updates

Habitable Evaporated Cores and the Occurrence of Panspermia near the Galactic Center
https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.06692

About 30% of Sun-like Stars Have Kepler-like Planetary Systems: A Study of their Intrinsic Architecture
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.09526

Identifying Young Kepler Planet Host Stars from Keck-HIRES Spectra of Lithium
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.09529

Exoplanet Classification and Yield Estimates for Direct Imaging Missions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.09602

Mass determination of the 1:3:5 near-resonant planets transiting GJ 9827 (K2-135)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.09557

Medium-resolution integral-field spectroscopy for high-contrast exoplanet imaging: Molecule maps of the β Pictoris system with SINFONI
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.09721

Aldebaran b’s temperate past uncovered in planet search data
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.09812

The architecture and formation of the Kepler-30 planetary system
https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.04962

Water, Methane Depletion, and High-Altitude Condensates in the Atmosphere of the Warm Super-Neptune WASP-107b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.08635

H- Opacity and Water Dissociation in the Dayside Atmosphere of the Very Hot Gas Giant WASP-18 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.02489

EPIC247098361b: a transiting warm Saturn on an eccentric P=11.2 days orbit around a V=9.9 star
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.08865

Populations of planets in multiple star systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.08693

EPIC247098361b: a transiting warm Saturn on an eccentric P=11.2 days orbit around a V=9.9 star
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.08865

Stability Limits of Circumbinary Planets: Is There a Pile-up in the Kepler CBPs?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.08868

Validation and Initial Characterization of the Long Period Planet Kepler-1654 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.08945

Valuing life detection missions [This paper isn’t specifically interstellar in
focus, but covers points that also apply to interstellar exploration]
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.09006

Forming Different Planetary Architectures . I . Formation Efficiency of Hot Jupites from High-eccentricity Mechanisms
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.09126

Observable signatures of wind–driven chemistry with a fully consistent three dimensional radiative hydrodynamics model of HD 209458b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.09222

Outgassing on stagnant-lid super-Earths
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.09264

Chemistry of a newly detected circumbinary disk in Ophiuchus
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.09286

Detailed chemical compositions of the wide binary HD 80606/80607: revised stellar properties and constraints on planet formation
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.09306

The Detectability of Earth’s Biosignatures Across Time
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.09367

Area Coverage of Expanding E.T. Signals in the Galaxy: SETI and Drake’s N
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.09399

Implications of the interstellar object 1I/’Oumuamua for planetary dynamics and planetesimal formation
https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.09599

Empirical Tidal Dissipation in Exoplanet Hosts From Tidal Spin-Up
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.05269

Detection of a Millimeter Flare From Proxima Centauri
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.08257

Direct Multipixel Imaging and Spectroscopy of an Exoplanet with a Solar Gravity Lens Mission
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.08421

Chaotic Excitation and Tidal Damping in the GJ 876 System
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.08385

Eyes on K2-3: A system of three likely sub-Neptunes characterized with HARPS-N and HARPS
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.08320

Dimensionality and integrals of motion of the Trappist-1 planetary system
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.08300

Signature of Planetary Mergers on Stellar Spins
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.08260

Possible Photometric Signatures of Moderately Advanced Civilizations: The Clarke Exobelt
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.07723

Modal Decomposition of TTV – Inferring Planet Masses and Eccentricities
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.07731

The search for radio emission from exoplanets using LOFAR beam-formed observations: Jupiter as an exoplanet
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.07316

A Catalog of Cool Dwarf Targets for the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite
https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.00193