Interstellar Updates

Remote Sensing of Homochirality: A Proxy for the Detection of Extraterrestrial Life
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780444640277000021

Starshot Sail Bidders Briefing
http://breakthroughinitiatives.org/i/docs/StarshotSail.zip

Re-Thinking Law for a Spacefaring Civilization (pg. 23-25)
http://astrosociology.org/Library/PDF/Newsletters/ARI-Newsletter_Vol-6_Iss-1-2017.pdf

The researchers who study alien linguistics
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05310-x

A Deep Radio Limit for the TRAPPIST-1 System
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.00480

A Balanced Budget View on Forming Giant Planets by Pebble Accretion
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.00487

On the Feasibility of Intense Radial Velocity Surveys for Earth-twin Discoveries
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.00518

Two planetary systems with transiting Earth-size and super-Earth planets orbiting late-type dwarf stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.01181

K2-231 b: A sub-Neptune exoplanet transiting a solar twin in Ruprecht 147
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.07430

NASA Narrows Scope for Proposed Astrophysics Missions
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-narrows-scope-for-proposed-astrophysics-missions

The Ladder of Life Detection
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2017.1773

Is extraterrestrial life suppressed on subsurface ocean worlds due to the paucity of bioessential elements?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.00018

Migration of planets in circumbinary discs
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.00314

Classifying Exoplanets with Gaussian Mixture Model
https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.00605

The Eccentric Cavity, Triple Rings, Two-Armed Spirals, and Double Clumps of the MWC 758 Disk
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.12141

A Recommendation Algorithm to Predict Giant Exoplanet Host Stars Using Stellar Elemental Abundances
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.12144

Physical properties of MgO at deep planetary conditions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.12439

Absolute densities in exoplanetary systems: photodynamical modelling of Kepler-138
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.12520

Planet-driven Spiral Arms in Protoplanetary Disks. I. Formation Mechanism
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aabf8c

Planet-driven Spiral Arms in Protoplanetary Disks. II. Implications
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aabf93

Do close-in giant planets orbiting evolved stars prefer eccentric orbits?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.11620

Stellar and Planetary Characterization of the Ross 128 Exoplanetary System from APOGEE Spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.11633

20 years of photometric microlensing events predicted by Gaia DR2: Potential planet-hosting lenses within 100 pc
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.11638

The GTC exoplanet transit spectroscopy survey IX. Detection of Haze, Na, K, and Li in the super-Neptune WASP-127b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.11744

CUBESPEC: Low-cost space-based astronomical spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.11848

High Resolution Spectroscopy using Fabry Perot Intereferometer Arrays: An Application to Searches for O2 in Exoplanetary Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.12011

A Kinematical Detection of Two Embedded Jupiter Mass Planets in HD 163296
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.10290

Radial migration of gap-opening planets in protoplanetary disks. I. The case of a single planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.11101

Zodiacal Exoplanets in Time (ZEIT) VII: A Temperate Candidate Super-Earth in the Hyades Cluster
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.11117

Towards Consistent Modeling of Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics in Exoplanets: Validation and Generalization of Chemical Relaxation Method
https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.08492

Extremophile life-form survey on rocky exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.06341