Interstellar Updates

Astrobiology, Discovery, and Societal Impact
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108556941

Exo-Milankovitch Cycles II: Climates of G-dwarf Planets in Dynamically Hot Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.00283

An 8 Mearth super-Earth in a 2.2 day orbit around the K5V star K2-216
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.04774

Tidal Evolution of Kepler lower-mass Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.04885

Modeling Martian Atmospheric Losses over Time: Implications for Exoplanetary Climate Evolution and Habitability
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.05016

A search for transiting planets in the β Pictoris system
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.05240

The dynamical evolution of transiting planetary systems including a realistic collision prescription
https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.08939

Project Dragonfly: Sail to the stars
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576517319136

Nanophotonic light sails for relativistic spaceflight by high-power laser beams
https://www.osapublishing.org/abstract.cfm?uri=CLEO_QELS-2018-FF1H.6

Materials challenges for the Starshot lightsail
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41563-018-0075-8

Propulsion system (possibly applicable to interstellar missions)
https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/ef/c8/ad/19693f1eed3a8e/US20180106219A1.pdf

Interplanetary spacecraft using fusion-powered constant-acceleration thrust (possibly applicable to interstellar missions)
https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/7f/1d/76/adc5d2c41b2ea6/US20180105292A1.pdf

House spending bill could brighten prospects for two giant telescopes
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/05/house-spending-bill-could-brighten-prospects-two-giant-telescopes

The Evo-SETI unit of evolution is EE = Earth evolution = 25.575 bit
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576517316491

Two Thousand Kepler Phase Curves from Phasma
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.04121

Exoplanet recycling in massive white-dwarf debris discs
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.04429

Exoplanet Biosignatures: Understanding Oxygen as a Biosignature in the Context of Its Environment
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2017.1727

Decoding Alien Intelligence Workshop Guest Papers
https://daiworkshop.seti.org/guest-papers

Decoding Alien Intelligence Workshop White Papers
https://daiworkshop.seti.org/white-papers

Statistical Trends in the Obliquity Distribution of Exoplanet Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.03654

A Framework for Prioritizing the TESS Planetary Candidates Most Amenable to Atmospheric Characterization
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.03671

The ExoMol Atlas of Molecular Opacities
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.03711

Reassessing Exoplanet Light Curves with a Thermal Model
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.04067

Exploring Kepler Giant Planets in the Habitable Zone
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.03370

Evidence of a Sub-Saturn around EPIC~211945201
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.03466

Spinup and Disruption of Interstellar Asteroids by Mechanical Torques, and Implications for 1I/2017 U1 (`Oumuamua)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.01335

Origin and continuation of 3/2, 5/2, 3/1, 4/1 and 5/1 resonant periodic orbits in the circular and elliptic restricted three-body problem
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.00288

Atmospheric Seasonality as an Exoplanet Biosignature
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aac171/meta

The Super Earth-Cold Jupiter Relations
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.02660

Limb Darkening and Planetary Transits II: Intensity profile correction factors for a grid of model stellar atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.02696

Giant planets around FGK stars form probably through core accretion
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.02721

A Survey of Exoplanetary Detection Techniques
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.02771

Combining low- to high-resolution transit spectroscopy of HD 189733b. Linking the troposphere and the thermosphere of a hot gas giant
https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.09678

Is Life Most Likely Around Sun-like Stars?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.11134