Interstellar Updates

Materials Design for Heat Exchangers of Interstellar Solar Thermal Propulsion Missions at Three Solar Radii
https://search.proquest.com/openview/0c0aeed6daf64a02eed899b6713a43ea/

An Upper Limit on He Absorption in GJ 1214b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab01b8

Hot Exoplanet Atmospheres Resolved with Transit Spectroscopy (HEARTS) – II. A broadened sodium feature on the ultra-hot giant WASP-76b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.00001

Topography of (exo)planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.00047

Cloud Atlas: High-Contrast Time-Resolved Observations of Planetary-Mass Companions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.00085

A generic frequency dependence for the atmospheric tidal torque of terrestrial planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.00280

On the 9:7 Mean Motion Resonance Capture in a System of Two Equal-mass Super-Earths
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.00437

Rotational Light Curves of Jupiter from Ultraviolet to Mid-infrared and Implications for Brown Dwarfs and Exoplanets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aafba7

Hundreds More Planets Await Discovery in Kepler’s K2 Data Set
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab01c6

S-Type and P-Type Habitability in Stellar Binary Systems: A Comprehensive Approach III. Results for Mars, Earth, and super-Earth Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.11171

Minerva-Australis I: Design, Commissioning, & First Photometric Results
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.11231

Predicting multiple planet stability and habitable zone companions in the TESS era
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.11297

The Effects of Gravity on the Climate and Circulation of a Terrestrial Planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.11426

ExPRES: a Tool to Simulate Exoplanetary and Planetary Radio Emissions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.11523

Theoretical models of the protostellar disks of AS 209 and HL Tau presently forming in-situ planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.10642

Tidally-Distorted, Iron-Enhanced Exoplanets Closely Orbiting Their Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.10666

High Resolution Spectroscopy and High Contrast Imaging with the ELT : looking for O2 in Proxima b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.10833

A Critical Review on the Assumptions of SETI
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.10551

Effects of a fully 3D atmospheric structure on exoplanet transmission spectra: retrieval biases due to day-night temperature gradients
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.09932

An Eccentric Massive Jupiter Orbiting a Sub-Giant on a 9.5 Day Period Discovered in the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite Full Frame Images
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.09950

Swift UVOT near-UV transit observations of WASP-121 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.10223

The future of space-based astronomy may depend on two large ground-based telescopes
https://spacenews.com/the-future-of-space-based-astronomy-may-depend-on-two-large-ground-based-telescopes/

World’s largest digital sky survey issues biggest astronomical data release ever
https://spacenewsfeed.com/index.php/news/2610-world-s-largest-digital-sky-survey-issues-biggest-astronomical-data-release-ever

The Netherlands will partner to build the largest radio telescope in the world
https://spacenewsfeed.com/index.php/news/2608-the-netherlands-will-partner-to-build-the-largest-radio-telescope-in-the-world

An optical transmission spectrum of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-33 b: First indication of aluminum oxide in an exoplanet
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2019/02/aa33837-18/aa33837-18.html

Transiting Exoplanet Monitoring Project (TEMP). V. Transit Follow Up for HAT-P-9b, HAT-P-32b, and HAT-P-36b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aaf6b6

Breakthrough Listen Observations of Asteroid (514107) 2015 BZ509 with the Parkes Radio Telescope
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab010b

Near-resonance in a system of sub-Neptunes from TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.09092

A new metric to quantify the similarity between planetary systems – application to dimensionality reduction using T-SNE
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.09719

Numerical constraints on the size of generation ships from total energy expenditure on board, annual food production and space farming techniques
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.09542

The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets. XXXVI. Eight HARPS multi-planet systems hosting 20 super-Earth and Neptune-mass companions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.05153