Interstellar Updates

A key piece in the exoplanet puzzle
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07328-7

A candidate super-Earth planet orbiting near the snow line of Barnard’s star
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.05955

Spitzer Observations of Interstellar Object 1I/’Oumuamua
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aae88f/meta

Diagrams and alien ways of thinking
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0039368118300281

Explicit relations and criteria for eclipses, transits and occultations
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.05484

HD2685 b: A Hot-Jupiter orbiting an early F-type star detected by TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.05518

The TP3-WFS: a new guy in town
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.05607

WASP-190b: Tomographic discovery of a transiting hot Jupiter
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.05742

Prospects for detecting the astrometric signature of Barnard’s Star b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.05920

Hubble pinpoints first exomoon discovery
https://academic.oup.com/astrogeo/article-abstract/59/6/6.7/5180329

Data mining predicts stellar eclipse
https://academic.oup.com/astrogeo/article-abstract/59/6/6.5/5180292

Treating Wavefront Measurement Error in Estimation of Non-Common Path Aberration for Direct Imaging of Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.05096

The Exchange of Mass and Angular Momentum in the Impact Event of Ice Giant Planets: Implications for the origin of Uranus
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.05234

WASP-166b: a bloated super-Neptune transiting a V = 9 star
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.05292

Laser Guide Star for Large Segmented-Aperture Space Telescopes, Part I: Implications for Terrestrial Exoplanet Detection and Observatory Stability
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.05309

XUV Radiation from A-stars: Implications for Ultra-hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.05460

Solar Sails: Traveling the Solar System (and Beyond!) with Sunlight
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20180006969.pdf

Brown dwarf companion with a period of 4.6 yr interacting with the hot Jupiter CoRoT-20 b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2018/11/aa33180-18/aa33180-18.html

The Ring Structure in the MWC 480 Disk Revealed by ALMA
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.04074

The chemical composition of planet building blocks as predicted by stellar population synthesis
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.04096

Magnetic Fields on the Flare Star Trappist-1: Consequences for Radius Inflation and Planetary Habitability
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.04149

Integrating light-curve and atmospheric modelling of transiting exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.04686

Disentangling the planet from the star in late type M dwarfs: A case study of TRAPPIST-1g
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.04877

Discovery of a Transiting Adolescent Sub-Neptune Exoplanet with K2
https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.07320

Comets, Enceladus and panspermia
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10509-018-3465-0

NASA’s Astrobiology Program Evolving to Meet the Future
https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/nasas-astrobiology-program-evolving-to-meet-the-future/

NASA to shut down astrobiology virtual institute
https://spacenews.com/nasa-to-shut-down-astrobiology-virtual-institute/

Stability of planets in triple star systems
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2018/11/aa33097-18/aa33097-18.html

HD 189733 b: bow shock or no shock?
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2018/11/aa33567-18/aa33567-18.html

On the robustness of analysis techniques for molecular detections using high resolution exoplanet spectroscopy
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/sty2994/5173097

Efficient Joint Sampling of Impact Parameters and Transit Depths in Transiting Exoplanet Light Curves
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/aaef38

Super-Earths in the TW Hya disc
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.03636

Planetary tidal interactions and the rotational evolution of low-mass stars – The Pleiades’ anomaly
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2018/11/aa33576-18/aa33576-18.html

An automated search for transiting exocomets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.03102

Sculpting the Valley in the Radius Distribution of Small Exoplanets as a by-product of Planet Formation: The Core-Powered Mass-Loss Mechanism
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.03202

Bayesian Deep Learning for Exoplanet Atmospheric Retrieval
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.03390

Polarized scattered light from self-luminous exoplanets. Three-dimensional scattering radiative transfer with ARTES
https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.09427