Interstellar Updates

TESS’s first planet: A super-Earth transiting the naked-eye star π Mensae
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2018/11/aa34289-18/aa34289-18.html

Climate sensitivity to ozone and its relevance on the habitability of Earth-like planets
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103517307820

A Maximum Subsurface Biomass on Mars from Untapped Free Energy: CO and H2 as Potential Antibiosignatures
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.08501

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

DE CVn: an eclipsing post-common envelope binary with a circumbinary disk and a giant planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.08625

Senator seeks assurances on JWST and WFIRST funding
https://spacenews.com/senator-seeks-assurances-on-jwst-and-wfirst-funding/

Two Terrestrial Planet Families With Different Origins
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.07919

Revised estimates of the frequency of Earth-like planets in the Kepler field
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.08249

Exoplanet Spectroscopy and Photometry with the Twinkle Space Telescope
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.08348

Handbook of Exoplanets
https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-3-319-55333-7

AAVSO to archive amateur astronomer exoplanet data
https://www.aavso.org/exoplanet-data

Welcome to the AAVSO Exoplanet Section
https://www.aavso.org/exoplanet-section

Data calibration for the MASCARA and bRing instruments
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2018/11/aa34070-18/aa34070-18.html

Search for young transiting exoplanets within YETI project
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.06993

Direct imaging of molten protoplanets in nearby young stellar associations
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.07411

Machine-learning Approaches to Exoplanet Transit Detection and Candidate Validation in Wide-field Ground-based Surveys
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.07754

The GAPS Programme with HARPS-N at TNG XVIII. Two new giant planets around the metal-poor stars HD 220197 and HD 233832
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.07776

Assembling Life: How Can Life Begin on Earth and Other Habitable Planets?
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/assembling-life-9780190646387?cc=us&lang=en&

Orbital outcomes of STIPs and consequences for hot-Jupiter formation and planet diversity
https://open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0373613

The NEW Arecibo Message
http://www.areciboobservatory.org/challenge/

DE CVn: An Eclipsing Post-common Envelope Binary with a Circumbinary Disk and a Giant Planet
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aae64d

Predicted Yield of Transits of Known Radial Velocity Exoplanets from the TESS Primary and Extended Missions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.06550

Space-based infrared interferometry to study exoplanetary atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.04150

Revised Exoplanet Radii and Habitability Using Gaia Data Release 2
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.04533

Activity induced variation in spin-orbit angles as derived from Rossiter–McLaughlin measurements
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2018/11/aa33709-18/aa33709-18.html

Grid of upper atmosphere models for 1–40 M⊕ planets: application to CoRoT-7 b and HD 219134 b,c
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2018/11/aa33737-18/aa33737-18.html

On the robustness of analysis techniques for molecular detections using high resolution exoplanet spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.05978

TESS full orbital phase curve of the WASP-18b system
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.06020

Life Before Fermi – Back to the Solar System
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.06313

Evolution of star-planet systems under magnetic braking and tidal interaction
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.06354

Comprehensive analysis of HD 105, a young Solar System analog
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.06440

Re-analysing the dynamical stability of the HD 47366 planetary system
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.06476

The polarization of the planet-hosting WASP-18 system
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.06527

Seismicity on Tidally Active Solid-Surface Worlds
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.06536

Artificial Intelligence for Interstellar Travel
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.06526