Interstellar Updates

The potential habitability of TRAPPIST-1—no aliens yet, but a lot of data
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-potential-habitability-trappist-1no-aliens-lot.html

Debris Disks: Probing Planet Formation
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.08636

Exoplanets: past, present, and future
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.08907

Retired A Stars Revisited: An Updated Giant Planet Occurrence Rate as a Function of Stellar Metallicity and Mass
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.09082

Photometric Follow-up Transit (Primary Eclipse) Observations of WASP-43 b and TrES-3b and A Study on Their Transit Timing Variations
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.09159

Radio Emission from the Exoplanetary System epsilon Eridani
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aab3cb

Biases in Planet Occurrence Caused by Unresolved Binaries in Transit Surveys
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07764

GPI spectra of HR 8799 c, d, and e from 1.5 to 2.4μm with KLIP Forward Modeling
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07774

Comparison of the power-2 limb-darkening law from the Stagger-grid to Kepler light curves of transiting exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07943

Modeling Exoplanetary Atmospheres: An Overview
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.08149

Exploring the realm of scaled Solar System analogs with HARPS
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.08329

SETI with Gaia: The observational signatures of nearly complete Dyson spheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.08351

PyMieDAP: a Python–Fortran tool to compute fluxes and polarization signals of (exo)planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.08357

A Thought Experiment Relevant to the Fermi Paradox
https://geopolicraticus.wordpress.com/2018/04/21/a-thought-experiment-relevant-to-the-fermi-paradox/

Exoplanet Biosignatures: A Framework for Their Assessment
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2017.1737

Woodpeckers and Diamonds: Some Aspects of Evolutionary Convergence in Astrobiology
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2017.1741

An Accurate Mass Determination for Kepler-1655b, a Moderately Irradiated World with a Significant Volatile Envelope
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aab8f3

Observational Techniques With Transiting Exoplanetary Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07357

A universal spin-mass relation for brown dwarfs and planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07380

Analyzing astronomical data with Apache Spark [not specifically interstellar-oriented, but useful in analysis]
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07501

The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: 1.1-1.9 GHz observations of 692 Nearby Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.03491

The GAPS Programme with HARPS-N at TNG XVII. Line profile indicators and kernel regression as diagnostics of radial-velocity variations due to stellar activity in solar-like stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07039

The Peculiar Atmospheric Chemistry of KELT-9b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07137

Increased Tidal Dissipation Using Advanced Rheological Models: Implications for Io and Tidally Active Exoplanets
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aab784

Stellar Photospheric Abundances as a Probe of Disks and Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.06414

ALMA resolves CI emission from the β Pictoris debris disk
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.06479

Properties of the single Jovian planet population and the pursuit of Solar system analogues
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.06547