Interstellar Updates

Senate bill restores funding for NASA science and technology demonstration missions
http://spacenews.com/senate-bill-restores-funding-for-nasa-science-and-technology-demonstration-missions/

Computational models show that planets can easily exist in triple star systems
2018/2018-06/computational-models-show-that-planets-can-easily-exist-in-triple-star-systems.html” target=_blank>https://www.wits.ac.za/news/latest-news/research-news/2018/2018-06/computational-models-show-that-planets-can-easily-exist-in-triple-star-systems.html

Baseline Requirements For Detecting Biosignatures with the HabEx and LUVOIR Mission Concepts
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.04324

Atmospheric Seasonality as an Exoplanet Biosignature
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.04592

Exoplanet Atmospheres at High Spectral Resolution
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.04617

Can Machines Design? An Artificial General Intelligence Approach
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02091

A 2 Earth Radius Planet Orbiting the Bright Nearby K-Dwarf Wolf 503
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.03494

Transit timing analysis of the exoplanet TrES-5 b. Possible existence of the exoplanet TrES-5 c
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.03503

Computing the minimal crew for a multi-generational space travel towards Proxima Centauri b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.03856

Supervised Machine Learning for Analysing Spectra of Exoplanetary Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.03944

EPIC 201498078b: A low density Super Neptune on an eccentric orbit
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.04073

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

Spacecraft landing and site-to-site transpsort for a planet, moon or other space body
https://patents.google.com/patent/US20180134417A1/en

ExoGAN: Retrieving Exoplanetary Atmospheres Using Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02906

A TESS Dress Rehearsal: Planetary Candidates and Variables from K2 Campaign 17
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.03127

The First Naked-Eye Superflare Detected from Proxima Centauri
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.02001

OHB System to sign PLATO construction contract in June
http://spacenews.com/ohb-system-to-sign-plato-construction-contract-in-june/

Relativistic solar sails
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6404/aaa341

A High-performance Atmospheric Radiation Package: with applications to the radiative energy budgets of giant planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02573

Modeling Indications of Technology in Planetary Transit Light Curves — Dark-side illumination
https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.07399

Similarity indexing of exoplanets in search for potential habitability: application to Mars-like worlds
https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.06702

Internal Structure of Giant and Icy Planets: Importance of Heavy Elements and Mixing
https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.09320

Earth Similarity Index and Habitability Studies of Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.07101

Spitzer Space Telescope: Innovations and Optimizations in the Extended Mission Era
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/pdf/10.2514/6.2018-2350

Simulating Transits of Large Objects at the L1 Lagrange Point for the 2018 Feature Film Clara
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/aaa4be

Magnetised winds and their influence in the escaping upper atmosphere of HD 209458b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02259

SBAF: A New Activation Function for Artificial Neural Net based Habitability Classification
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.01844