Interstellar Updates

Spectroscopic Characterization of Key Aromatic Molecules: A Route toward The Origin of Life
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5881883/

Interstellar Colonization
http://www.ideefiks.utwente.nl/wp_base/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Interstellar-colonization_technolab2017.pdf

Policy options for the radio detectability of Earth
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.01885

UKIRT-2017-BLG-001Lb: A Giant Planet Detected through the Dust
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aab71b

Investigating hot-Jupiter inflated radii with hierarchical Bayesian modelling
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.03075

Role of stellar physics in regulating the critical steps for life
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.02271

Redox evolution via gravitational differentiation on low mass planets: implications for abiotic oxygen, water loss and habitability
https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.00345

The Gravitational Threshold of Spacefaring Civilizations
http://geopolicraticus.tumblr.com/post/172681556712/the-gravitational-threshold-of-spacefaring

Space Exploration: It’s Impact on Society–A Critical Review
http://www.ijater.com/files/NCRTSTM_01_18.pdf

The Traveling-Wave Tube in the History of Telecommunication
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.11497

Spacedrives and Conservation Laws
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/full/10.2514/1.A34116

Escape and fractionation of volatiles and noble gases from Mars-sized planetary embryos and growing protoplanets
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103517301677

The First Naked-Eye Superflare Detected from Proxima Centauri
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.02001

A HARDCORE model for constraining an exoplanet’s core size
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.02019

Giant planets: good neighbors for habitable worlds?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.02183

K-Stacker: Keplerian image recombination for the direct detection of exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.02192

Using asteroseismology to characterise exoplanet host stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.02214

Low mass planet migration in magnetically torqued dead zones – II. Flow-locked and runaway migration, and a torque prescription
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.02290

Formation of the terrestrial planets in the solar system around 1 au via radial concentration of planetesimals
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.02361

Advanced Diffractive MetaFilm Sailcraft
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2018_Phase_I_Phase_II/Advanced_Diffractive_MetaFilm_Sailcraft

Planetary population synthesis
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.01532

HATS-39b, HATS-40b, HATS-41b, and HATS-42b: Three Inflated Hot Jupiters and a Super-Jupiter Transiting F Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.01623

SOPHIE velocimetry of Kepler transit candidates XVIII. Radial velocity confirmation, absolute masses and radii, and origin of the Kepler-419 multiplanetary system
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.01869

Thermal emission of WASP-48b in the Ks-band
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.01913

Resolving faint structures in the debris disk around TWA7
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.01929

OGLE-2017-BLG-0373Lb: A Jovian Mass-Ratio Planet Exposes A New Accidental Microlensing Degeneracy
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.10067

How much does turbulence change the pebble isolation mass for planet formation?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.00924

An Empirical Planetesimal Belt Radius – Stellar Luminosity Relation
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.01094

Formation of Planetary Populations I: Metallicity & Envelope Opacity Effects
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.01148

Interstellar communication. X. The colors of optical SETI
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.01249

Interstellar communication. XI. Short pulse duration limits of optical SETI
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.01251

Signatures of Young Planets in the Continuum Emission From Protostellar Disks
https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.05123

Giant Planets: Good Neighbors for Habitable Worlds?
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aaaf72

On the Biohabitability of M-dwarf Planets
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aaae6e

Exploring H2O Prominence in Reflection Spectra of Cool Giant Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.00662

The direct imaging search for Earth 2.0: Quantifying biases and planetary false positives
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.00699

Formation of close-in super-Earths in evolving protoplanetary disks due to disk winds
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.01070