Interstellar Updates

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

Overload control of artificial gravity facility using spinning tether system for high eccentricity transfer orbits
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576517313681

Habitability Classification of Exoplanets: A Machine Learning Insight
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.08810

Phantom Inflated Planets in Occurrence Rate Based Samples
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.08818

Kepler-503b: An Object at the Hydrogen Burning Mass Limit Orbiting a Subgiant Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.08820

Stellar Companions of Exoplanet Host Stars in K2
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.08844

A Novel Exoplanetary Habitability Score via Particle Swarm Optimization of CES Production Functions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.08858

KMT-2016-BLG-1107: A New Hollywood-Planet Close/Wide Degeneracy
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.08888

Planetary Spectrum Generator: an accurate online radiative transfer suite for atmospheres, comets, small bodies and exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.02008

Preliminary results of magnetic field measurements on multi-coil magnetic sail in laboratory experiment
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0042207X17315075

A Summary of Recent NASA’s Electric Sail Propulsion System Investigations
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/pdf/10.2514/6.2018-1536

An Advanced Composites-Based Solar Sail System for Interplanetary Small Satellite Missions
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/pdf/10.2514/6.2018-1437

Linear Structural Dynamics and Modal Cost Analysis for a Solar Sail
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/pdf/10.2514/6.2018-1434

Membrane Structure Supported by Self-Deployable Truss for Space Applications
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/pdf/10.2514/6.2018-1201

Radioactive nuclei from cosmochronology to habitability
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0146641018300358

The Exoplanet Population Observation Simulator. I – The Inner Edges of Planetary Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.08211

Populations of Extrasolar Giant Planets from Transit and Radial Velocity Surveys
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.08391

An Earth-sized exoplanet with a Mercury-like composition
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.08405

The Open Universe Initiative
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.08505

Circular polarization signals of cloudy (exo)planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.08686

Survival of a planet in short-period Neptunian desert under effect of photo-evaporation
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.04278

The Ice Cap Zone: A Unique Habitable Zone for Ocean Worlds
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.07717

Temporary microglia-depletion after cosmic radiation modifies phagocytic activity and prevents cognitive deficits
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-26039-7#Sec1

Future of Space Travel Through VARIES and VASIMR
http://www.gjaet.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/FUTURE-OF-SPACE-TRAVEL-THROUGH-VARIES-AND-VASIMR.pdf

The SpaceDrive Project–First Results on EMDrive and Mach-Effect Thrusters
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Martin_Tajmar/publication/325177082_The_SpaceDrive_Project_-_First_Results_on_EMDrive_and_Mach-Effect_Thrusters/links/5afc3b400f7e9b3b0bf38a8e/The-SpaceDrive-Project-First-Results-on-EMDrive-and-Mach-Effect-Thrusters.pdf

Surprise! House spending panel gives NSF far more money for telescope than it requested
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/05/surprise-house-spending-panel-gives-nsf-far-more-money-telescope-it-requested

Rival giant telescopes join forces to seek U.S. funding
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/05/rival-giant-telescopes-join-forces-seek-us-funding

An interstellar origin for Jupiter’s retrograde co-orbital asteroid
https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/article/477/1/L117/4996014

Analysis to Evaluate Multilayer Shielding of Galactic Cosmic Rays
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/1.T5292

Effects of dissociation/recombination on the day-night temperature contrasts of ultra-hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.07415

Probing Signatures of a Distant Planet around the Young T-Tauri Star CI Tau Hosting a Possible Hot Jupiter
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.07498

Migration of Planets Into and Out of Mean Motion Resonances in Protoplanetary Discs: Overstability of Capture and Nonlinear Eccentricity Damping
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.07501

Recovering the colour-dependent albedo of exoplanets with high-resolution spectroscopy: from ESPRESSO to the ELT
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.08021

The TESS Input Catalog and Candidate Target List
https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.00495

Interstellar communication. IV. Benchmarking information carriers
https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.07962

Interstellar communication. VII. Benchmarking inscribed matter probes
https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.10262