Interstellar Updates

Astrotheology: Science and Theology Meet Extraterrestrial Life
https://www.amazon.com/Astrotheology-Science-Theology-Meet-Extraterrestrial/dp/1532606397/

Handbook of Exoplanets
https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-3-319-30648-3

Valuing Life-Detection Missions
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2017.1813

Earth Without Life: A Systems Model of a Global Abiotic Nitrogen Cycle
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2017.1700

Carbon Cycling and Habitability of Earth-Sized Stagnant Lid Planets
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2017.1695

Atmospheric escape from the TRAPPIST-1 planets and implications for habitability
http://www.pnas.org/content/115/2/260

Hydrogen and helium ingassing during terrestrial planet accretion
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X18304035

Atmospheric Escape and the Evolution of Close-in Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.07609

Survival of non-coplanar, closely-packed planetary systems after a close encounter
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.07668

The first super-Earth Detection from the High Cadence and High Radial Velocity Precision Dharma Planet Survey
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.07098

Review of high-contrast imaging systems for current and future ground-based and space-based telescopes III. Technology opportunities and pathways
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.07100

Upgrading the Gemini Planet Imager: GPI 2.0
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.07145

The Gemini Planet Imager: Looking back over five years and forward to the future
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.07146

Mining the GPIES database
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.07153

Air, Telescope, and Instrument Temperature Effects on the Gemini Planet Imager’s Image Quality
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.07157

Dynamical Evolution of the Early Solar System
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.06647

Characterization of microdot apodizers for imaging exoplanets with next-generation space telescopes
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.06761

Evolution of Earth-like extrasolar planetary atmospheres: Assessing the atmospheres and biospheres of early Earth analog planets with a coupled atmosphere biogeochemical model
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.06844

WASP-147b, 160Bb, 164b and 165b: two hot Saturns and two Jupiters, including two planets with metal-rich hosts
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.06973

Review of high-contrast imaging systems for current and future ground- and space-based telescopes I. Coronagraph design methods and optical performance metrics
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.07042

Review of high-contrast imaging systems for current and future ground-based and space-based telescopes II. Common path wavefront sensing/control and Coherent Differential Imaging
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.07043

Chemo-kinematic ages of eccentric-planet-hosting M dwarf stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.06017

Search for Extra-Galactic Intelligence Signal Synchronized with a Binary Neutron Star Merger
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.06024

Metallicity-Dependent Signatures in the Kepler Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.06033

Exoplanet science with a space-based mid-infrared nulling interferometer
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.06088

What Does “Metallicity” Mean When Interpreting Spectra of Exoplanetary Atmospheres?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.06102

Atmospheric Circulation and Thermal Phase-Curve Offset of Tidally and Non-Tidally Locked Terrestrial Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.06123

Discovery of three new transiting hot Jupiters: WASP-161 b, WASP-163 b and WASP-170 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.06548

MOPSS I: Flat Optical Spectra for the Hot Jupiters WASP-4 b and WASP-52b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.06561

RIT researcher develops new solar sailing technology for NASA
http://www.rit.edu/news/story.php?id=67269&source=enewsletter

The TOLIMAN space telescope
https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2313269

Niche amplitude, tidal-locking and Fermi’s Paradox
https://doi.org/10.1017/S1473550418000253

On the possibility of the Dyson spheres observable beyond the infrared spectrum
https://doi.org/10.1017/S1473550418000174

The Hawaii Infrared Parallax Program. III. 2MASS J0249-0557 c: A Wide Planetary-mass Companion to a Low-mass Binary in the beta Pic Moving Group
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.05235

Kepler Object of Interest Network – I. First results combining ground- and space-based observations of Kepler systems with transit timing variations
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2018/07/aa32483-17/aa32483-17.html

Photosynthesis on a planet orbiting an M dwarf: enhanced effectiveness during flares
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.05267

LASSO: Large Adaptive optics Survey for Substellar Objects using the new SAPHIRA detector on Robo-AO
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.05291

The Origin of Heavy Element Content Trend in Giant Planets via Core Accretion
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.05305

WFIRST Coronagraph Technology Requirements: Status Update and Systems Engineering Approach
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.05422

EPIC 220501947 b and K2-237 b: two transiting hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.05865

The orbital architecture and debris disks of the HR 8799 planetary system
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.05898

Scientific Discovery with the James Webb Space Telescope
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.06941