Interstellar Updates

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

WEIRD: Wide-orbit Exoplanet search with InfraRed Direct imaging
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.08799

Modeled Temperature-Dependent Clouds with Radiative Feedback in Hot Jupiter Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.08890

Relative Likelihood of Success in the Searches for Primitive versus Intelligent Extraterrestrial Life
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.08879

Space, Architecture, and Science Fiction: An Architectural Interpretation of Space Colonization
https://cgscholar.com/bookstore/works/space-architecture-and-science-fiction

NASA faces funding challenge for JWST in future years
https://spacenews.com/nasa-faces-funding-challenge-for-jwst-in-future-years/

Rio 2.0: revising the Rio scale for SETI detections
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/rio-20-revising-the-rio-scale-for-seti-detections/DF9D6EABEA7D8D84999234BCFB3FADB4

High-energy environment of super-Earth 55 Cancri e – I. Far-UV chromospheric variability as a possible tracer of planet-induced coronal rain
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2018/07/aa32700-18/aa32700-18.html

A Search for Exoplanets around Northern Circumpolar Stars. IV. Six Planet Candidates to the K Giants, HD 44385, HD 97619, HD 106574, HD 118904, HD 164428, and HD 202432
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aacbc1

Chromatic transit light curves of disintegrating rocky planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.07973

The HOSTS Survey for Exozodiacal Dust: Preliminary results and future prospects
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.08209

Prospects for the characterisation of exo-zodiacal dust with the VLTI
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.08210

Atmospheric Circulation of Brown Dwarfs and Jupiter and Saturn-like Planets: Zonal Jets, Long-term Variability, and QBO-type Oscillations
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.08433

Color Classification of Extrasolar Giant Planets: Prospects and Cautions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.08453

SPOTS: The Search for Planets Orbiting Two Stars. III. Complete Sample and Statistical Analysis
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.08687