Interstellar Updates

Pros and Cons of Classification of Exoplanets: In Search for the Right Habitability Metric
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Arun_Kenath/publication/326040257_Astrobiology_Newsletter_Vol_11_No_3/links/5b34daafaca2720785f0bf68/Astrobiology-Newsletter-Vol-11-No-3.pdf

Curvature Invariants for Lorentzian Traversable Wormholes
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.10985v1

NASA’s Kepler Spacecraft Pauses Science Observations to Download Science Data
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/nasa-s-kepler-spacecraft-pauses-science-observations-to-download-science-data

The Artificial Inducement of a Local Space Warp Bubble Using a VEM Drive
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2018-4633

A trip to the moon might constrain the Fermi Paradox
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016328717304755

Interior structure models and fluid Love numbers of exoplanets in the super-Earth regime
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2018/07/aa31775-17/aa31775-17.html

TTV-determined Masses for Warm Jupiters and their Close Planetary Companions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.02217

The influence of stellar flare on dynamical state of the atmosphere of exoplanet HD 209458
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.02271

Giant planet effects on terrestrial planet formation and system architecture
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.02463

Minimizing the bias in exoplanet detection – application to radial velocities of LHS 1140
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.02483

Simple geometric approximations for global atmospheres on moderately oblate planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.02405

Predicted microlensing events from analysis of Gaia Data Release 2
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.10630

Oceanic tides from Earth-like to ocean planets
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2018/07/aa32249-17/aa32249-17.html

Mineralogy, Structure and Habitability of Carbon-enriched Rocky Exoplanets: A Laboratory Approach
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.02064

The gravitational mass of Proxima Centauri measured with SPHERE from a microlensing event
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.01318

Imaging radial velocity planets with SPHERE
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.01324

Constraining the presence of giant planets in two-belt debris disk systems with VLT/SPHERE direct imaging and dynamical arguments
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.01326

To PLAnetary Transit Or NOT? An extremely large field of view camera with a CaF2 component tested in thermo-vacuum
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.01362

The 0.6-4.55μm broadband transmission spectra of TRAPPIST-1 planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.01402

Formation of Solar system analogues II: post-gas phase growth and water accretion in extended discs via N-body simulations
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.01429

Star-planet interactions. V. Dynamical and equilibrium tides in convective zones
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.01474

Observing the universe with a camera traveling near the speed of light
https://phys.org/news/2018-07-universe-camera.html

Exoplanet Biosignatures: Future Directions
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2017.1738

Exoplanet Biosignatures: Observational Prospects
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2017.1733

Exoplanet Biosignatures: At the Dawn of a New Era of Planetary Observations
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2018.1862

A possible anorthositic continent of early Mars and the role of planetary size for the inception of Earth-like life
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674987116302158

Chemical inhomogeneities in the Pleiades: signatures of rocky-forming material in stellar atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.00941

A 4.6-year period brown-dwarf companion interacting with the hot-Jupiter CoRoT-20 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.01229

Quantifying the Observational Effort Required for the Radial Velocity Characterization of TESS Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.01263

The stability of tightly-packed, evenly-spaced systems of Earth-mass planets orbiting a Sun-like star
https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.08426

Kepler Object of Interest Network II. Photodynamical modelling of Kepler-9 over 8 years of transit observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.00007

Photoevaporation and High-Eccentricity Migration Created the Sub-Jovian Desert
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.00012

The warm Neptunes around HD 106315 have low stellar obliquities
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.00024

Sunscreen: Photometric Signatures of Galaxies Partially Cloaked in Dyson Spheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.00077

The Impact of Stellar Distances on Habitable Zone Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.00378

The orbital eccentricity of small planet systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.00549

Stellar contributions in the line-profiles of high-resolution transmission spectra of exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.00577

The GJ 504 system revisited. Combining interferometric, radial velocity, and high contrast imaging data
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.00657

The TROY project: II. Multi-technique constraints on exotrojans in nine planetary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.00773

An asteroseismic view of the radius valley: stripped cores, not born rocky
https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.05398