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Principium, Issue 22 | August 2018
https://i4is.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Principium22.pdf
No Bootstrap Spaceshipsvia Magnets in Electric Fields
http://physics.princeton.edu/~mcdonald/examples/redfern.pdf
The Influence of \ce{H2O} Pressure Broadening in High Metallicity Exoplanet Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.02548
Computational astrophysics for the future
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6406/979
Exoplanets in the Antarctic sky. II. 116 Transiting Exoplanet Candidates found by AST3-II (CHESPA) within the Southern CVZ of TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01789
Recent Developments at the Boquete Optical SETI Observatory and Owl Observatory
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01956
EPIC 211964830: A transiting multi-planet system in the Praesepe open cluster
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01968
Modeling the albedo of Earth-like magma ocean planets with H2O-CO2 atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.02036
Success in critical communications tests for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/success-in-critical-communications-tests-for-nasas-james-webb-space-telescope
Kepler resumes operations despite malfunctioning thruster
https://spacenews.com/kepler-resumes-operations-despite-malfunctioning-thruster/
Exoplanet Science Strategy
https://www.nap.edu/catalog/25187/exoplanet-science-strategy
Habitable Climate Scenarios for Proxima Centauri b with a Dynamic Ocean
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2017.1760
Continuous reorientation of synchronous terrestrial planets controlled by mantle convection
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01150
Detecting isotopologues in exoplanet atmospheres using ground-based high-dispersion spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01156
Effects of non-Kozai mutual inclinations on two-planet system stability through all phases of stellar evolution
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01157
Radial velocities from the N2K Project: 6 new cold gas giant planets orbiting HD 55696, HD 98736, HD 148164, HD 203473, and HD 211810
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01228
KMT-2017-BLG-0165Lb: A Super-Neptune mass planet Orbiting a Sun-like Host Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01288
Idealized Wind-driven Ocean Circulations On Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01376
Differences in water vapor radiative transfer among 1D models can significantly affect the inner edge of the habitable zone
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01397
Abrupt climate transition of icy worlds from snowball to moist or runaway greenhouse
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01418
Magma oceans as a critical stage in the tectonic development of rocky planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01629
The influence of stellar flare on dynamical state of the atmosphere of exoplanet HD 209458b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.02271
The 0.8-4.5μm broadband transmission spectra of TRAPPIST-1 planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.01402
A Universal Nightside Temperature on Hot Jupiters due to Nocturnal Clouds
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.00002
Kepler-730b is probably a hot Jupiter with a small companion
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.00007
Stellar Obliquities & Planetary Alignments (SOPA) I. Spin-Orbit measurements of Three Transiting Hot Jupiters: WASP-72b, WASP-100b, & WASP-109b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.00314
The ice composition in the protoplanetary disk V883 Ori revealed by its stellar outburst
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.00353
NGTS-4b: A sub-Neptune Transiting in the Desert
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.00678
A Reassessment of Families of Solutions to the Puzzle of Boyajian’s Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.00693
High-Contrast study of the candidate planets and protoplanetary disk around HD~100546
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01001
HATS-60b – HATS-69b: Ten Transiting Planets From HATSouth
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01048
Scaling Relations Associated with Millimeter Continuum Sizes in Protoplanetary Disks
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.10510
