Interstellar Updates

PROCSIMA: Diffractionless Beamed Propulsion for Breakthrough Interstellar Missions
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2018_Phase_I_Phase_II/PROCSIMA

Update on the Worsening Particle Radiation Environment Observed by CRaTER and Implications for Future Human Deep‐Space Exploration
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2017SW001803

Kepler’s Earth-like Planets Should Not Be Confirmed Without Independent Detection: The Case of Kepler-452b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.11307

Dicover and access GAPS Time Series: prototyping for interoperability
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.11429

Super-Earths in need for Extremly Big Rockets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.11384

Computer-aided discovery of debris disk candidates: A case study using the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) catalog
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213133717300197

High-energy environment of super-Earth 55 Cnc e I: Far-UV chromospheric variability as a possible tracer of planet-induced coronal rain
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.10783

Improving the Accuracy of Planet Occurrence Rates from Kepler using Approximate Bayesian Computation
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.10787

OGLE-2017-BLG-0482Lb: A Microlensing Super-Earth Orbiting a Low-mass Host Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.10830

The linear theory of tidally excited spiral density waves: application to CV and circumplanetary disks
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.10921

Exoplanet Catalogues
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.11158

Ejection of rocky and icy material from binary star systems: Implications for the origin and composition of 1I/`Oumuamua
https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.04435

Worlds First Interstellar Summer School Announced
https://i4is.org/worlds-first-summer-interstellar-summer-school-announced/

Breakthrough Discuss Conference 2018
http://breakthroughinitiatives.org/events/discuss

MBR Space Settlement Challenge
https://www.guaana.com/funding/grants/mbrchallenge/details

First space mission dedicated to exoplanet atmospheres gets green light
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-03445-5

Dynamical Analysis of the Circumprimary Planet in the Eccentric Binary System HD 59686
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aab439

Investigating Planet Formation and Evolutionary Processes with Short-Period Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.10293

A periodic configuration of the Kepler-25 planetary system?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.10285

A brief overview of planet formation
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.10526

WFIRST work continues despite budget and schedule uncertainty
http://spacenews.com/wfirst-work-continues-despite-budget-and-schedule-uncertainty/

An Earth-sized exoplanet with a Mercury-like composition
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-018-0420-5

A Universal Break in the Planet-to-star Mass-ratio Function of Kepler MKG Stars
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aab6ac

Distinguishing the albedo of exoplanets from stellar activity
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2018/03/aa31206-17/aa31206-17.html

Shifting of the resonance location for planets embedded in circumstellar disks
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2018/03/aa32070-17/aa32070-17.html

Dynamical models to explain observations with SPHERE in planetary systems with double debris belts
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2018/03/aa31426-17/aa31426-17.html

Systematic Search for Rings around Kepler Planet Candidates: Constraints on Ring Size and Occurrence Rate
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.09114

A New Desalination Pump Help Define the pH of Ocean Worlds
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.08937

Global-Mean Vertical Tracer Mixing in Planetary Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.09149

Influence of stellar structure, evolution and rotation on the tidal damping of exoplanetary spin-orbit angles
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.09661

Orbital alignment of circumbinary planets that form in misaligned circumbinary discs: the case of Kepler-413b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.10061

Eccentricities and Inclinations of Multi-Planet Systems with External Perturbers
https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.06220

Life in the Universe
https://smartech.gatech.edu/handle/1853/59430

Geocentrism and the Astrobiological Context of the Human Condition
http://geopolicraticus.tumblr.com/post/172303464882/geocentrism-and-the-astrobiological-context-of-the

NASA reveals major delay for $8-billion Hubble successor
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-03863-5

Decrease in Hysteresis of Planetary Climate for Planets with Long Solar Days
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aaa70f