Interstellar Updates

Exo-Astrosociology and the Search for Technosignatures
http://www.astrosociology.org/Library/PDF/JPass–Exo-AstrosociologyAndTechnosignatures.pdf

Some Assembly Required: Giant Next-Generation Space Telescopes Could Be Built Off Earth
https://www.space.com/43273-building-big-space-observatories-off-earth.html

Is Earth special?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825218306524

Speeding past planets? Asteroids radiatively propelled by giant branch Yarkovsky effects
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.02795

NASA’s Webb Is Sound After Completing Critical Milestones
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12552

Free Vibration and Buckling of a Stripped Solar Sail
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/full/10.2514/1.A34342

Machine Vision and Deep Learning for Classification of Radio SETI Signals
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.02426

Comment on “the ultimate limits of the relativistic rocket equation. The Planck photon rocket”
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576518317818

Interlocking, reconfigurable, reconstitutable, reformable cell-based system with nested ring structures
https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/64/69/b3/34ca612390a3af/US20190023419A1.pdf

Interlocking, reconfigurable, reconstitutable, reformable cell-based space system
https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/43/91/5b/494501958ec00e/US20190023424A1.pdf

astroquery: An Astronomical Web-querying Package in Python
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aafc33

Exploring the formation by core accretion and the luminosity evolution of directly-imaged planets: The case of HIP 65426 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.01869

Dark Hole Maintenance and A Posteriori Intensity Estimation in the Presence of Speckle Drift in a High-Contrast Space Coronagraph
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.01880

So close, so different: characterization of the K2-36 planetary system with HARPS-N
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.01881

The misaligned orbit of the Earth-sized planet Kepler-408b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.02057

Occurrence Rates of Planets orbiting FGK Stars: Combining Kepler DR25, Gaia DR2 and Bayesian Inference
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.01417

The Ability of Significant Tidal Stress to Initiate Plate Tectonics
https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.09898

Two Jovian Planets around the Giant Star HD 202696: A Growing Population of Packed Massive Planetary Pairs around Massive Stars?
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aafa11

Surface tide on a rapidly rotating body
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.00859

Preliminary models of the outer disk of RU Lup presently showing only four dark gaps
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.01222

Correction to: Effect of the rotation and tidal dissipation history of stars on the evolution of close-in planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.01283

A giant impact as the likely origin of different twins in the Kepler-107 exoplanet system
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.01316

easyaccess: Enhanced SQL command line interpreter for astronomical surveys
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.02721