Interstellar Updates

Preliminary results of magnetic field measurements on multi-coil magnetic sail in laboratory experiment
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0042207X17315075

A Summary of Recent NASA’s Electric Sail Propulsion System Investigations
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/pdf/10.2514/6.2018-1536

An Advanced Composites-Based Solar Sail System for Interplanetary Small Satellite Missions
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/pdf/10.2514/6.2018-1437

Linear Structural Dynamics and Modal Cost Analysis for a Solar Sail
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/pdf/10.2514/6.2018-1434

Membrane Structure Supported by Self-Deployable Truss for Space Applications
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/pdf/10.2514/6.2018-1201

Radioactive nuclei from cosmochronology to habitability
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0146641018300358

The Exoplanet Population Observation Simulator. I – The Inner Edges of Planetary Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.08211

Populations of Extrasolar Giant Planets from Transit and Radial Velocity Surveys
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.08391

An Earth-sized exoplanet with a Mercury-like composition
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.08405

The Open Universe Initiative
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.08505

Circular polarization signals of cloudy (exo)planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.08686

Survival of a planet in short-period Neptunian desert under effect of photo-evaporation
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.04278

The Ice Cap Zone: A Unique Habitable Zone for Ocean Worlds
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.07717

Temporary microglia-depletion after cosmic radiation modifies phagocytic activity and prevents cognitive deficits
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-26039-7#Sec1

Future of Space Travel Through VARIES and VASIMR
http://www.gjaet.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/FUTURE-OF-SPACE-TRAVEL-THROUGH-VARIES-AND-VASIMR.pdf

The SpaceDrive Project–First Results on EMDrive and Mach-Effect Thrusters
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Martin_Tajmar/publication/325177082_The_SpaceDrive_Project_-_First_Results_on_EMDrive_and_Mach-Effect_Thrusters/links/5afc3b400f7e9b3b0bf38a8e/The-SpaceDrive-Project-First-Results-on-EMDrive-and-Mach-Effect-Thrusters.pdf

Surprise! House spending panel gives NSF far more money for telescope than it requested
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/05/surprise-house-spending-panel-gives-nsf-far-more-money-telescope-it-requested

Rival giant telescopes join forces to seek U.S. funding
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/05/rival-giant-telescopes-join-forces-seek-us-funding

An interstellar origin for Jupiter’s retrograde co-orbital asteroid
https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/article/477/1/L117/4996014

Analysis to Evaluate Multilayer Shielding of Galactic Cosmic Rays
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/1.T5292

Effects of dissociation/recombination on the day-night temperature contrasts of ultra-hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.07415

Probing Signatures of a Distant Planet around the Young T-Tauri Star CI Tau Hosting a Possible Hot Jupiter
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.07498

Migration of Planets Into and Out of Mean Motion Resonances in Protoplanetary Discs: Overstability of Capture and Nonlinear Eccentricity Damping
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.07501

Recovering the colour-dependent albedo of exoplanets with high-resolution spectroscopy: from ESPRESSO to the ELT
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.08021

The TESS Input Catalog and Candidate Target List
https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.00495

Interstellar communication. IV. Benchmarking information carriers
https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.07962

Interstellar communication. VII. Benchmarking inscribed matter probes
https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.10262

Exoplanet Terra Incognita
http://www3.leibniz-kis.de/~sveta/papers/2018_berdyugina_etal_terra_incognita.pdf

Preparing the NIRSpec/JWST science data calibration: from ground testing to sky
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.06922

TDEM final report: Enhanced direct imaging exoplanet detection with astrometry mass determination
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.06933

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

Long Term Planetary Habitability and the Carbonate-Silicate Cycle
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.06943

Automatic vetting of planet candidates from ground based surveys: Machine learning with NGTS
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.07089

Planets, candidates, and binaries from the CoRoT/Exoplanet programme: the CoRoT transit catalogue
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.07164

Ground-based optical transmission spectroscopy of the small, rocky exoplanet GJ 1132b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.07328

About 30% of Sun-like Stars Have Kepler-like Planetary Systems: A Study of their Intrinsic Architecture
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.09526

Gradations of Panspermia
http://geopolicraticus.tumblr.com/post/174016333357/gradations-of-panspermia

House appropriations bill partially restores WFIRST funding
http://spacenews.com/house-appropriations-bill-partially-restores-wfirst-funding/

Sun flux variation due to the effects of orbiting planets. Case of study of a non-compact planetary system
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.06526

Polarization of Trappist-1 by the Transit of its Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.06722

Radiation Pressure on a Diffractive Sailcraft
https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.02940

Measurements of Radiation Pressure owing to the Grating Momentum
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.04774

Flying on a Rainbow: A Solar-Driven Diffractive Sailcraft
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.05864

Expanding cosmological civilizations on the back of an envelope
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.06329

1I/2017 ‘Oumuamua-like Interstellar Asteroids as Possible Messengers from the Dead Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.02658

Inner Super-Earths, Outer Gas Giants: How Pebble Isolation and Migration Feedback Keep Jupiters Cold
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03648