Interstellar Updates

Medium-resolution integral-field spectroscopy for high-contrast exoplanet imaging: Molecule maps of the beta Pictoris system with SINFONI
https://www.aanda.org/component/article?access=doi&doi=10.1051/0004-6361/201832902

The effects of Poynting–Robertson drag on solar sails
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221137971732586X

A Game of Stars: Active SETI, Radical Translation and the Hobbesian Trap
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016328718300405

Dwarf carbon stars are likely metal-poor binaries and unlikely hosts to carbon planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.06074

Stability of exomoons around the Kepler transiting circumbinary planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.06075

EPIC 246911830 b: a hot Jupiter transiting an F star, and EPIC 201498078 b: a warm Saturn around a bright G star
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.06099

A Planetary Microlensing Event with an Unusually Red Source Star: MOA-2011-BLG-291
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.06106

Chemical abundances of neutron capture elements in exoplanet-hosting stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.06483

Formation of hot Jupiters through disk migration and evolving stellar tides
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.06601

The astrometric signal of microlensing events caused by free floating planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.06636

Exploring exomoon atmospheres with an idealized general circulation model
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.06822

The clock of chemical evolution
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.06716

A More Informative Map: Inverting Thermal Orbital Phase and Eclipse Lightcurves of Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.05700

Planet Size Distribution from the Kepler Mission and its Implications for Planet Formation
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.05909

Co-orbital resonance with a migrating proto-giant planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.06005

Inside-Out Planet Formation. V. Structure of the Inner Disk as Implied by the MRI
https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.07049

A dynamical origin for planets in triple star systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.05189

Life Versus Dark Energy: How An Advanced Civilization Could Resist the Accelerating Expansion of the Universe
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.05203

Formation of Giant Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.05649

Spiral Arms in Disks: Planets or Gravitational Instability?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.05183

Computer Simulations of Space Societies
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-90560-0

Space colonization and suffering risks: Reassessing the “maxipok rule”
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016328717304056

Simultaneous characterization of the atmospheres, surfaces, and exomoons of nearby rocky exoplanets
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.26464/epp2018024

Exoplanet Atmosphere Measurements from Transmission Spectroscopy and other Planet-Star Combined Light Observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.05941

Revisiting the exomoon candidate signal around Kepler-1625b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.04672

Quantifying the Evidence for a Planet in Radial Velocity Data
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.04683

Mass and Mass Scalings of Super-Earths
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.04693

Circumbinary discs: Numerical and physical behaviour
https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.08130

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