Interstellar Updates

Planet-driven Spiral Arms in Protoplanetary Disks. I. Formation Mechanism
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aabf8c

Planet-driven Spiral Arms in Protoplanetary Disks. II. Implications
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aabf93

Do close-in giant planets orbiting evolved stars prefer eccentric orbits?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.11620

Stellar and Planetary Characterization of the Ross 128 Exoplanetary System from APOGEE Spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.11633

20 years of photometric microlensing events predicted by Gaia DR2: Potential planet-hosting lenses within 100 pc
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.11638

The GTC exoplanet transit spectroscopy survey IX. Detection of Haze, Na, K, and Li in the super-Neptune WASP-127b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.11744

CUBESPEC: Low-cost space-based astronomical spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.11848

High Resolution Spectroscopy using Fabry Perot Intereferometer Arrays: An Application to Searches for O2 in Exoplanetary Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.12011

A Kinematical Detection of Two Embedded Jupiter Mass Planets in HD 163296
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.10290

Radial migration of gap-opening planets in protoplanetary disks. I. The case of a single planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.11101

Zodiacal Exoplanets in Time (ZEIT) VII: A Temperate Candidate Super-Earth in the Hyades Cluster
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.11117

Towards Consistent Modeling of Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics in Exoplanets: Validation and Generalization of Chemical Relaxation Method
https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.08492

Extremophile life-form survey on rocky exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.06341

The Anthropocene Generalized: Evolution of Exo-Civilizations and Their Planetary Feedback
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/ast.2017.1671

First light for SPIRou, exoplanet hunter
http://www2.cnrs.fr/en/3123.htm

Imagining Outer Space: European Astroculture in the Twentieth Century
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057%2F978-1-349-95339-4

Measuring Eta_Earth: Characterization of Terrestrial Planetary Systems with Kepler, HARPS-N, and Gaia
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/106562_en.html

A Kinematical Detection of Two Jupiter Mass Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.10290

Buildup of Abiotic Oxygen and Ozone in Moist Atmospheres of Temperate Terrestrial Exoplanets and its Impact on the Spectral Fingerprint in Transit Observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.10332

Migration-driven diversity of super-Earth compositions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.10345

NGTS-2b: An inflated hot-Jupiter transiting a bright F-dwarf
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.10449

Photochemical Haze Formation in the Atmospheres of super-Earths and mini-Neptunes
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.10488

Non-Detection of a Helium Exosphere for the Hot Jupiter WASP-12b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.10671

Planet Formation in Highly Inclined Binary Systems. II. Orbital Alignment or Anti-alignment and Planet Growth Boost in Intermediate Separation Binaries
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.10993

Dipole Drive for Space Propulsion
http://jbis.org.uk/paper.php?p=2017.70.442

Beam-Driven Sails and Divergence of Neutral Particle Beams
http://jbis.org.uk/paper.php?p=2017.70.449

Star Lifting: An Application for Alien Megastructures
http://jbis.org.uk/paper.php?p=2017.70.458

KMT-2016-BLG-1820 and KMT-2016-BLG-2142: Two Microlensing Binaries Composed of Planetary-mass Companions and Very-Low-Mass Primaries
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.09983

The science case for POLLUX, a high-resolution UV spectropolarimeter onboard LUVOIR
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.10021

Theory and simulation of spectral line broadening by exoplanetary atmospheric haze
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.10171

Survival of microbes in Earth’s stratosphere
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1369527417301522

HAT-P-11: Discovery of a Second Planet and a Clue to Understanding Exoplanet Obliquities
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.09352

A new ab initio equation of state of hcp-Fe and its implication on the interior structure and mass-radius relations of rocky super-Earths
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103517305602