Interstellar Updates

K2-141 b A 5-M⊕ super-Earth transiting a K7 V star every 6.7 h
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2018/04/aa32217-17

First direct detection of a polarized companion outside of a resolved circumbinary disk around CS Cha
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.02261

Breakthrough Listen Begins Survey of the Plane of the Milky Way at Parkes
http://breakthroughinitiatives.org/news/20

Detecting Exomoons Via Doppler Monitoring of Directly Imaged Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.01903

Unbiased inference of the masses of transiting planets from radial velocity followup
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.01906

A gap in the planetesimal disc around HD 107146 and asymmetric warm dust emission revealed by ALMA
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.01915

Obliquity Variations of Habitable Zone Planets Kepler-62f and Kepler-186f
https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.07303

Stability and self-organization of planetary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.08575

Exoplanet Biosignatures: A Review of Remotely Detectable Signs of Life
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2017.1729

An absolute sodium abundance for a cloud-free ‘hot Saturn’ exoplanet
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0101-7

A Methane Extension to the Classical Habitable Zone
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aab8fa

Transiting Exoplanet Monitoring Project (TEMP). IV. Refined System Parameters, Transit Timing Variations and Orbital Stability of the Transiting Planetary System HAT-P-25
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.01580

HD 89345: a bright oscillating star hosting a transiting warm Saturn-sized planet observed by K2
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.01860

Stellar Photospheric Abundances as a Probe of Disks and Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.06414

Retired A Stars Revisited: An Updated Giant Planet Occurrence Rate as a Function of Stellar Metallicity and Mass
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.09082

Formation of Silicate and Titanium Clouds on Hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.01468

Can Rocky Exoplanets with Rings Pose as Sub-Neptunes?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.01478

Transit time derivation for hot planet bow-shocks
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.01496

Indifferently Spacefaring Civilizations
https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2018/05/04/indifferently-spacefaring-civilizations/

Dusty disc-planet interaction with dust-free simulations
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.00940

An Estimate of the Yield of Single-Transit Planetary Events from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.00956

Multi-band high resolution spectroscopy rules out the hot Jupiter BD+20 1790b – First data from the GIARPS Commissioning
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.01281

Helium in the eroding atmosphere of an exoplanet
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.01298

The Breakthrough Starshot System Model
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.01306

Unmasking the hidden NGTS-3Ab: a hot Jupiter in an unresolved binary system
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.01378

The California Kepler Survey VII. Precise Planet Radii Leveraging Gaia DR2 Reveal the Stellar Mass Dependence of the Planet Radius Gap
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.01453

OGLE-2015-BLG-1459L: The Challenges of Exo-Moon Microlensing
https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.09651

Modular Active Self-Assembling Space Telescope Swarms
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2018_Phase_I_Phase_II/Modular_Active_Self-Assembling_Space_Telescope_Swarms

Pulsed Fission-Fusion (PuFF) Propulsion Concept
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2018_Phase_I_Phase_II/PulsedFission-Fusion_Propulsion_Concept

A Breakthrough Propulsion Architecture for Interstellar Precursor Missions
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2018_Phase_I_Phase_II/Breakthrough_Propulsion_Architecture_for_Interstellar_Precursor_Missions

Direct Multipixel Imaging and Spectroscopy of an Exoplanet with a Solar Gravity Lens Mission
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2018_Phase_I_Phase_II/Direct_Multipixel_Imaging_and_Spectroscopy

Mach Effect for In Space Propulsion: Interstellar Mission
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2018_Phase_I_Phase_II/Mach_Effect_for_In_Space_Propulsion_Interstellar_Mission

Three Small Planets Transiting the Bright Young Field Star K2-233
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aabde8

Generation of a Circumstellar Gas Disk by Hot Jupiter WASP-12b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.00596

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs: A low-mass planet in the temperate zone of the nearby K2-18
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.00830

The chemical composition of α Cen AB revisited
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.00929

Redox evolution via gravitational differentiation on low mass planets: implications for abiotic oxygen, water loss and habitability
https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.00345

A better characterization of the chemical composition of exoplanets atmospheres with ARIEL
https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.08433

Moonfalls: Collisions between the Earth and its past moons
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.00019

Planet Populations as a Function of Stellar Properties
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.00023

Global Climate and Atmospheric Composition of the Ultra-Hot Jupiter WASP-103b from HST and Spitzer Phase Curve Observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.00029

An ice giant exoplanet interpretation of the anomaly in microlensing event OGLE-2011-BLG-0173
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.00049

Extremely Irradiated Hot Jupiters: Non-Oxide Inversions, H- Opacity, and Thermal Dissociation of Molecules
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.00038

From thermal dissociation to condensation in the atmospheres of ultra hot Jupiters: WASP-121b in context
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.00096

Revised Radii of Kepler Stars and Planets using Gaia Data Release 2
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.00231

A HST/WFC3 Thermal Emission Spectrum of the Hot Jupiter HAT-P-7b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.00424