Interstellar Updates

The origin of RNA precursors on exoplanets
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/8/eaar3302

The Search for Extra-Galactic Intelligence Signals Synchronized with Binary Neutron Star Mergers
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aad33d

Using warm dust to constrain unseen planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.11536

The Planet Formation Imager
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.11559

Planet Formation Imager: Project Update
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.11555

The Efficiency of Geometric Samplers for Exoplanet Transit Timing Variation Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.11591

Precovery of TESS Single Transits with KELT
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.11922

55 Cancri (Copernicus): A Multi-Planet System with a Hot Super-Earth and a Jupiter Analogue
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.11925

Where no planetary protection policy has gone before
https://doi.org/10.1017/S1473550418000228

A Catalog of Spectra, Albedos, and Colors of Solar System Bodies for Exoplanet Comparison
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2017.1763

Two warm, low-density sub-Jovian planets orbiting bright stars in K2 campaigns 13 and 14
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.02858

Magellan Adaptive Optics Imaging of PDS 70: Measuring the Mass Accretion Rate of a Young Giant Planet within a Gapped Disk
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.10766

Diagnosing aerosols in extrasolar giant planets with cross-correlation function of water bands
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.10769

Predicting the Orbit of TRAPPIST-1i
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.10835

Slowing Down Type II Migration of Gas Giants to Match Observational Data
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.10871

Expected Yields of Planet discoveries from the TESS primary and extended missions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.11129

A Place Among the Stars? The Influence of Religion and Creationism on Attitudes Toward Space Exploration and Beliefs in Extraterrestrial Life
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1144&context=psychology_etds

EPIC 246851721 b: A Tropical Jupiter Transiting a Rapidly Rotating Star in a Well-Aligned Orbit
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.10298

Evolution of Earth-like planetary atmospheres around M-dwarf stars: Assessing the atmospheres and biospheres with a coupled atmosphere biogeochemical model
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.10616

The atmosphere of WASP-17b: Optical high-resolution transmission spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.10621

ACCESS: A featureless optical transmission spectrum for WASP-19b from Magellan/IMACS
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.10652

Northrop CEO offers to link JWST profit to mission success
https://spacenews.com/northrop-ceo-offers-to-link-jwst-profit-to-mission-success/

A Survey and Analysis of College Students’ Understanding of Planet Formation Before Instruction
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2017.1815

Characterizing the atmosphere of Proxima b with a space-based mid-infrared nulling interferometer
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.09996

Transiting Exoplanet Monitoring Project (TEMP). I. Refined System Parameters and Transit Timing Variations of HAT-P-29b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.10107

Traces of exomoons in computed flux and polarization phase curves of starlight reflected by exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.10266

NASA weighs delaying WFIRST to fund JWST overrun
https://spacenews.com/nasa-weighs-delaying-wfirst-to-fund-jwst-overrun/

A more comprehensive habitable zone for finding life on other planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.09504

Planets around evolved intermediate-mass stars in open clusters II. Are there really planets around IC4651No9122, NGC2423No3 and NGC4349No127?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.09608

Chemistry During the Gas-rich Stage of Planet Formation
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.09635

On the co-orbital motion in the three-body problem: existence of quasi-periodic horseshoe-shaped orbits
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.07262