Interstellar Updates

N-body simulations of terrestrial planet growth with resonant dynamical friction
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.07201

SETI surveys of the nearby and distant universe employing wide-field radio interferometry techniques
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.07235

Maximum Angular Separation Epochs for Exoplanet Imaging Observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.07328

The role of host star variability in the detectability of planetary phase curves
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.07495

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs: The warm super-Earths in twin orbits around the mid-type M dwarfs Ross 1020 (GJ 3779) and LP 819-052 (GJ 1265)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.07572

Linear Structural Dynamics and Tip-Vane Attitude Control for Square Solar Sails
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/full/10.2514/1.G003485

Is the ring inside or outside the planet?: The effect of planet migration on dust rings
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.06573

Award-winning algorithm takes search for habitable planets to the next level
https://www.kaust.edu.sa/en/news/award-winning-algorithm-takes-search-for-habitable-planets-to-the-next-level

STARRY: Analytic Occultation Light Curves
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.06559

Science with an ngVLA: SETI Searches for Evidence of Intelligent Life in the Galaxy
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.06568

Science with a ngVLA: Imaging planetary systems in the act of forming with the ngVLA
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.06671

An alternative stable solution for the Kepler-419 system, obtained with the use of a genetic algorithm
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.06769

STIM map: detection map for exoplanets imaging beyond asymptotic Gaussian residual speckle noise
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.06895

Overcoming the limitations of the energy-limited approximation for planet atmospheric escape
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.06920

New Formation Models for the Kepler-36 System
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.07160

The Psychology of Space Exploration: What Freud Might Have Said
https://www.amazon.com/Psychology-Space-Exploration-Freud-Might/dp/1138351407/

Electrostatic accelerated electrons within symmetric capacitors during field emission condition events exert bidirectional propellant-less thrust
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.04368

Overcoming the Limitations of the Energy-limited Approximation for Planet Atmospheric Escape
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aae586

Ab initio based equation of state of dense water for planetary and exoplanetary modeling
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.05658

Atmospheric dynamics and the variable transit of KELT-9 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.05776

Life-Detection Technologies for the Next Two Decades
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.06026

A New Planet in the Kepler-159 System From Transit Timing Variations
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.06486

Fermi and Lotka: The Long Odds of Survival in a Dangerous Universe
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.03088

Photometric limits on the high resolution imaging of exoplanets using the solar gravity lens
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576518307987

Constraining the period of the ringed secondary companion to the young star J1407 with photographic plates
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.05171

Limits on Clouds and Hazes for the TRAPPIST-1 Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.05210

Evidence of magnetic star-planet interactions in the HD 189733 system from orbitally-phased Ca II K variations
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.05253

Rings and gaps in protoplanetary disks: planets or snowlines?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.05614

Impacts of dust feedback on a dust ring induced by a planet in a protoplanetary disk
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.05635

A New Planet in the Kepler-159 System From Transit Timing Variations
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/sty2738/5124396

A Framework for Planet Detection with Faint Light-curve Echoes
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aadc5e

Methane in Analogs of Young Directly Imaged Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.04684

Confirmation of the radial velocity super-Earth K2-18c with HARPS and CARMENES
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.04731

From rock to life. A mass balance analysis of oxidative biological weathering and biosignatures formation
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.05128

Climates of Warm Earth-like Planets II: Rotational ‘Goldilocks’ Zones for Fractional Habitability and Silicate Weathering
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.05139

Early evolution of purple retinal pigments on Earth and implications for exoplanet biosignatures
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.05150