Interstellar Updates

Space Nuclear Power Systems – Direct Fusion Drive
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/pdf/10.2514/6.2018-4974

Implications of Tides for Life on Exoplanets
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2017.1718

The Inner Solar System’s Habitability Through Time
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.04776

Gravitational Waves From Ultra Short Period Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.04877

Robust Transiting Exoplanet Radii in the Presence of Starspots from Ingress and Egress Durations
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.04886

Exoplanet Atmosphere Measurements from Direct Imaging
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.05136

Tidal Decay of Circumbinary Planetary Systems
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aaccf9

The Best Planets to Harbor Detectable Exomoons
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aac9c0

The 55 Cnc system reassessed
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.04301

MagAO-X: project status and first laboratory results
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.04315

Effect of the exoplanet magnetic field topology on its magnetospheric radio emission
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.04417

Diffuser-assisted Photometric Follow-up Observations of the Neptune-sized Planets K2-28b and K2-100b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.04420

Polarized Radiative Transfer in Planetary Atmospheres and the Polarization of Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.04443

‘Where is everybody?’ An empirical appraisal of occurrence, prevalence and sustainability of technological species in the Universe
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325780733_‘Where_is_everybody’_An_empirical_appraisal_of_occurrence_prevalence_and_sustainability_of_technological_species_in_the_Universe

Galactic Distribution of Chirality Sources of Organic Molecules
https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.06720

Self-Stirring of Debris Discs by Planetesimals Formed by Pebble Concentration
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.05431

NASA’s TESS Spacecraft Continues Testing Prior to First Observations
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/nasa-s-tess-spacecraft-continues-testing-prior-to-first-observations

NASA’s Webb Space Telescope to Inspect Atmospheres of Gas Giant Exoplanets
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/nasa-s-webb-space-telescope-to-inspect-atmospheres-of-gas-giant-exoplanets

Pros and cons of relativistic interstellar flight
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009457651830897X

Space Capitalism
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-74651-7

Blue Canyon Technologies helps ASTERIA satellite point the way to discovering new planets
http://spacenewsfeed.com/index.php/news/1591-blue-canyon-technologies-helps-asteria-satellite-point-the-way-to-discovering-new-planets

Nuclear and Future Flight Propulsion – Modeling the Thrust of the Direct Fusion Drive
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2018-4769

Super-Earth of 8 Mearth in a 2.2-day orbit around the K5V star K2-216
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.04774

Dust evolution and satellitesimal formation in circumplanetary disks
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.02638

On the incidence of planet candidates in open clusters and a planet confirmation
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.03196