Interstellar Updates

«Impulsar»: New Application for High Power/Energy High Repetition Rate Pulse-Periodic Lasers
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-030-02952-4

An optical transmission spectrum of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-33b. First indication of aluminum oxide in an exoplanet
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.02573

Contribution of the core to the thermal evolution of sub-Neptunes
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.02588

Retired A Stars and Their Companions VIII: 15 New Planetary Signals Around Subgiants and Transit Parameters for California Planet Search Planets with Subgiant Hosts
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.03043

Scientists push back against Harvard ‘alien spacecraft’ theory
https://phys.org/news/2018-11-scientists-harvard-alien-spacecraft-theory.html

Prospects for TTV Detection and Dynamical Constraints with TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.01970

Ground-based Spectroscopy of the Exoplanet XO-2b using a Systematic Wavelength Calibration
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.02060

Techniques for Finding Close-in, Low-mass Planets around Subgiants
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.02077

Vortex fiber nulling for exoplanet observations. I. Experimental demonstration in monochromatic light
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.02083

Detecting Unresolved Binaries in TESS Data with Speckle Imaging
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.02108

HD 1397b: a transiting warm giant planet orbiting a V = 7.8 mag sub-giant star discovered by TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.02156

Atmospheric mass loss from hot Jupiters irradiated by stellar superflares
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.02303

Predicting Exoplanets Mass and Radius: A Nonparametric Approach
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.02324

Tidal synchronization of close-in satellites and exoplanets. III. Tidal dissipation revisited and application to Enceladus
https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.09229

Photonic Wireless Terahertz Wave System for Space Exploration
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8510280

Retrieving Temperatures and Abundances of Exoplanet Atmospheres with High-Resolution Cross-Correlation Spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.01681

A Jovian planet in an eccentric 11.5 day orbit around HD1397 discovered by TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.01882

On the possibility of detecting ultra-short period exoplanets with LISA
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.07055

Solar sail H-reversal trajectory: A review of its advances and applications
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42064-018-0032-y

How life could help atmospheric tides slow a planet’s rotation
https://www.astrobio.net/news-exclusive/how-life-could-help-atmospheric-tides-slow-a-planets-rotation/

Optical Detection of Lasers with Near-term Technology at Interstellar Distances
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aae380

The HST PanCET Program: Hints of Na I & Evidence of a Cloudy Atmosphere for the Inflated Hot Jupiter WASP-52b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.00935

Independent board chair calls JWST a “step too far”
https://spacenews.com/independent-board-chair-calls-jwst-a-step-too-far/

The Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes makes all Kepler data publicly available
https://phys.org/news/2018-11-mikulski-archive-space-telescopes-kepler.html

MAST: Barbara A. Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes
https://mast.stsci.edu/

H2O abundances and cloud properties in ten hot giant exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.00011

Statistical modelling of an astro-comb for high-precision radial velocity observation
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.05529

Origin of 1I/’Oumuamua. II. An ejected exo-Oort cloud object?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.00023

Masses of the Kepler-419 Planets from Transit Timing Variations Analysis
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.00107

Two new free-floating planet candidates from microlensing
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.00441