Interstellar Updates

How to Build a Starship
https://medium.com/@jnnielsen/how-to-build-a-starship-87aecfa22828

Exoplanets around Low-mass Stars Unveiled by K2
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aaa9c1/meta

Shallow Transits—Deep Learning. I. Feasibility Study of Deep Learning to Detect Periodic Transits of Exoplanets
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aaae05

Kepler-78 and the Ultra-Short-Period Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03303

Merging the Astrophysics and Planetary Science Information Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03598

Energy of Extra-Terrestrial Civilizations according to Evo-SETI Theory
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576517314200

Exoplanet’s Figure and Its Interior
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0275106218300080

Atmospheric dynamics and habitability range in Earth-like aquaplanets obliquity simulations
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103517305407

Vacancies in MgO at ultrahigh pressure: About mantle rheology of super-Earths
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103517304724

Synthetic torpor: A method for safely and practically transporting experimental animals aboard spaceflight missions to deep space
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221455241730130X

If technological intelligent extraterrestrials exist, what biological traits are de rigueur
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214552417301128

Which colors would extraterrestrial civilizations use to transmit signals?: The “magic wavelengths” for optical SETI
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1384107616301993

A pilot investigation to constrain the presence of ring systems around transiting exoplanets
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1384107617303500

Magnetic properties of Proxima Centauri b analogues
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0032063317303380

Kuiper Belt Analogues in Nearby M-type Planet-host Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.02832

Interstellar object ‘Oumuamua as an extinct fragment of an ejected cometary planetesimal
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.02840

Two warm, low-density sub-Jovian planets orbiting bright stars in K2 campaigns 13 and 14
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.02858

The Importance of Multiple Observation Methods to Characterize Potentially Habitable Exoplanets: Ground- and Space-Based Synergies
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.02926

Ages for exoplanet host stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03125

Size and strength of self-excited dynamos in Jupiter-like extrasolar planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.02508

Atmospheric reconnaissance of the habitable-zone Earth-sized planets orbiting TRAPPIST-1
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-017-0374-z

The First Planetary Microlensing Event with Two Microlensed Source Stars
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aaadfa

Deep and wide gaps by super Earths in low-viscosity discs
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.01868

The KELT Follow-Up Network and Transit False Positive Catalog: Pre-vetted False Positives for TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.01869

Exoplanets Torqued by the Combined Tides of a Moon and Parent Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.01971

Planetary Spectrum Generator: an accurate online radiative transfer suite for atmospheres, comets, small bodies and exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.02008

Precision Light Curves from TESS Full-Frame Images: A Difference Imaging Approach
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.02316

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs: Radial-velocity variations of active stars in visual-channel spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.02338

The Habitability of Proxima Centauri b I: Evolutionary Scenarios
https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.06919

Core-powered mass loss and the radius distribution of small exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.01621

JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE Integration and Test Challenges Have Delayed Launch and Threaten to Push Costs Over Cap
https://www.gao.gov/assets/700/690413.pdf

New Constraints on Gliese 876—Exemplar of Mean-motion Resonance
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aaa894

Habitable Evaporated Cores and the Occurrence of Panspermia Near the Galactic Center
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aaab46

A New Window into Escaping Exoplanet Atmospheres: 10830 Å Line of Helium
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aaada9

Haze production rates in super-Earth and mini-Neptune atmosphere experiments
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-018-0397-0

Laboratory Simulations of Haze Formation in the Atmospheres of super-Earths and mini-Neptunes: Particle Color and Size Distribution
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.01706

The resilience of Kepler systems to stellar obliquity
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.01182

Dynamical analysis of the circumprimary planet in the eccentric binary system HD59686
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.01434

The when and where of water in the history of the universe
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.01452

Planetary Candidates Observed by Kepler. VIII. A Fully Automated Catalog With Measured Completeness and Reliability Based on Data Release 25
https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.06758