Interstellar Updates

Searching for E.T.: A Universal Units Proposal
http://jbis.org.uk/paper.php?p=2018.71.43

Computing the Minimal Crew for a multi-generational space journey towards Proxima b
http://jbis.org.uk/paper.php?p=2018.71.45

Worldship Ethics: Obligations to the Crew
http://jbis.org.uk/paper.php?p=2018.71.53

The Social Dynamics of Science, Exoplanetary Environments and the Drake Equation
http://jbis.org.uk/paper.php?p=2018.71.65

The Global Catastrophic Risks
http://jbis.org.uk/paper.php?p=2018.71.71

Planet Formation: An Optimized Population-Synthesis Approach
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.03293

ALES: Overview and Upgrades
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.03301

The Planetary Systems Imager: 2-5 Micron Channel
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.03304

New transit timing observations for GJ 436 b, HAT-P-3 b, HAT-P-19 b, WASP-3 b, and XO-2 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.03306

MEAD: Data Reduction Pipeline for ALES Integral Field Spectrograph and LBTI Thermal Infrared Calibration Unit
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.03356

The California-Kepler Survey. VI: Kepler Multis and Singles Have Similar Planet and Stellar Properties Indicating a Common Origin
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.03010

Data processing on simulated data for SHARK-NIR
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.03121

OGLE-2014-BLG-1186: gravitational microlensing providing evidence for a planet orbiting the foreground star or for a close binary source?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.03149

LOCNES: Low Cost NIR Extended Solar Telescope
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.03185

Discovery of WASP-174b: Doppler tomography of a near-grazing transit
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.00766

Dynamics and Formation of the Near-resonant K2-24 System: Insights from Transit-timing Variations and Radial Velocities
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aaceac

Non-detection of Contamination by Stellar Activity in the Spitzer Transit Light Curves of TRAPPIST-1
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.02808

Predictions of the WFIRST Microlensing Survey I: Bound Planet Detection Rates
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.02490

On-Sky Operations with the ALES Integral Field Spectrograph
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.02571

Nanophotonic Heterostructures for Efficient Propulsionand Radiative Cooling of Relativistic Light Sails
https://authors.library.caltech.edu/88412/1/acs.nanolett.8b02035.pdf

Tardigrade Indexing approach on exoplanets
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214552418300415

Spacecraft With Interstellar Medium Momentum Exchange Reactions: The potential and limitations of propellantless interstellar travel
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.02019

Quasi-secular evolution of mildly hierarchical triple systems: analytics and applications for GW-sources and hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.02030

Extreme precision photometry from the ground with beam-shaping diffusers for K2, TESS and beyond
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.02187

Multi-Wavelength High-Resolution Spectroscopy for Exoplanet Detection: Motivation, Instrumentation and First Results
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.02302

New Insights into Cosmic Ray induced Biosignature Chemistry in Earth-like Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.02347

Two decades of Exoplanetary Science with Adaptive Optics
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.02454

Exocomets in the Proxima Centauri system and their importance for water transport
https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.04685

Exploring the realm of scaled solar system analogues with HARPS
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2018/07/aa32791-18/aa32791-18.html

Interior characterization in multiplanetary systems: TRAPPIST-1
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.01803

The Effect of Disequilibrium Carbon Chemistry on the Atmospheric Circulation and Phase Curves of Hot Jupiter HD 189733b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.02011