Interstellar Updates

This is a special edition of the interstellar updates, due to the American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2018 abstracts just having come to our attention.

Interstellar Probe: A New Mission for a New Decade
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018AGUFMSH32C..01M

Interstellar Probe: The Compelling Science Case, Strawman Payload and Resources
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018AGUFMSH33C3660B

Ion and Neutral Gas Mass Spectrometer Instrument for the Future NASA Interstellar Probe Mission
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018AGUFMSH33C3670P

The Case for a Radio and Plasma Wave Receiver on an Interstellar Probe
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018AGUFMSH33C3665K

Interstellar Express: A New Chinese Space Mission to Explore the Outer Heliosphere
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018AGUFMSH32C..02W

Overview of the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) Mission
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018AGUFMSH12B..01M

Surveying the edge of our solar system and the interstellar interaction with IMAP
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018AGUFMSH12B..03S

Precise Measurement of the Interstellar Flow with IMAP, Informed by IBEX Observations
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018AGUFMSH13C2964M

Critical Subsystem Analysis for a 1000 AU Interstellar Pathfinder Mission
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018AGUFMSH33C3655B

Outer Boundary Explorations: Using New Space Launch Vehicles To Explore The Edge Of The Solar System and Beyond
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018AGUFMSA21A3144P

Enabling a Solar System Escape Mission via The NASA Space Launch System
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018AGUFMSH32C..03S

The Habitable Zone: Intended Applications, Controversial Misapplications, and Needed Improvements
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018AGUFM.P31C3734D

Diving into Exoplanets: Are Water Seas the Most Common?
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2017.1720

Hachimoji DNA and RNA: A genetic system with eight building blocks
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/363/6429/884

Ultra-Stable Environment Control for the NEID Spectrometer: Design and Performance Demonstration
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.07729

Low albedos of hot to ultra-hot Jupiters in the optical to near-infrared transition regime
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.07944

Comparative analysis of the influence of Sgr A* and nearby active galactic nuclei on the mass loss of known exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.07950

Hydrogen Cyanide in Nitrogen-Rich Atmospheres of Rocky Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.08022

A Fast Approximate Approach to Microlensing Survey Analysis
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.08092

Introduction: Detectability of Future Earth
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.08035

Two new free-floating or wide-orbit planets from microlensing
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2019/02/aa34557-18/aa34557-18.html

A highly structured disk around the planet host PDS 70 revealed by high-angular resolution observations with ALMA
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.07639

Chemical connections between low-mass stars and planets building blocks investigated by stellar population synthesis
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.07484

Breakthrough Propulsion Study
https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2019/02/15/breakthrough-propulsion-study/

Stellar spectroscopy in the near-infrared with a laser frequency comb
https://www.osapublishing.org/optica/abstract.cfm?uri=optica-6-2-233

Multiverse Predictions for Habitability: Number of Habitable Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.06784

Tropical and Extratropical General Circulation with a Meridional Reversed Temperature Gradient as Expected in a High Obliquity Planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.06832

PDS 70: A transition disk sculpted by a single planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.07191

Project Lyra: Catching 1I/’Oumuamua – Mission Opportunities After 2024
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04935

HADES RV program with HARPS-N at the TNG IX. A super-Earth around the M dwarf Gl 686
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2019/02/aa34868-18/aa34868-18.html

The SOPHIE search for northern extrasolar planets. XIV. A temperate (Teq∼300 K) super-earth around the nearby star Gliese 411
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.06004

The SOPHIE search for northern extrasolar planets XV. A Warm Neptune around the M-dwarf Gl378
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.05998

An alternative interpretation of the exomoon candidate signal in the combined Kepler and Hubble data of Kepler-1625
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.06018