Interstellar Updates

Life May Be Common in the Milky Way, Thanks to Comet Swapping
https://www.space.com/life-spread-around-galaxy-panspermia.html

The Climates of Other Worlds: A Review of the Emerging Field of Exoplanet Climatology
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/ab2fe7

SiO2 – SiC mixtures at high pressures and temperatures: Implications for planetary bodies containing SiC
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2018JE005856

Relativistic Astronomy. III. test of special relativity via Doppler effect
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.02985

Sulfate Aerosol Hazes and SO2 Gas as Constraints on Rocky Exoplanets’ Surface Liquid Water
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.02769

Characterizing the Distribution of Parameters of Planets Found by Radial Velocity is Essential for Understanding Planet Formation and Evolution
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.02771

Venus as a Laboratory for Exoplanetary Science
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.02783

Intrinsic Climate Cooling
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2018.1942

Search for gas from the disintegrating rocky exoplanet K2-22b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2019/08/aa34433-18/aa34433-18.html

Pileups and Migration Rates for Planets in Low Mass Disks
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.02326

The Mid-InfraRed Exo-planet CLimate Explorer MIRECLE: Exploring the Nearest M-Earths Through Ultra-Stable Mid-IR Transit and Phase-Curve Spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.02356

LRG-BEASTS: transmission spectroscopy and retrieval analysis of the highly-inflated Saturn-mass planet WASP-39b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.02358

Modelling atmospheric escape and MgII near-ultraviolet absorption of the highly irradiated hot Jupiter WASP-12b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.02527

Scaling Relations for Terrestrial Exoplanet Atmospheres from Baroclinic Criticality
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.02661

Comet C/2018 V1 (Machholz-Fujikawa-Iwamoto): dislodged from the Oort Cloud or coming from interstellar space?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.02666

The Nine Axes of Merit for Technosignature Searches
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.02683

WFIRST and EUCLID: enabling the microlensing parallax measurement from space
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.02720

Towards a Comprehensive Bibliography for SETI
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.02587

The “Terrascope”: On the Possibility of Using the Earth as an Atmospheric Lens
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.00490

ESA Voyage 2050 White Paper: Detecting life outside our solar system with a large high-contrast-imaging mission
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.01803

OWL-MOON : Very high resolution spectro-imaging and Earth-Moon interferometry: exoplanets to cosmology
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.02080

Uranus and Neptune are key to understand planets with hydrogen atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.02092

Recurrence Network Analysis of Exoplanetary Observables
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.02158

Clouds of Fluffy Aggregates: How They Form in Exoplanetary Atmospheres and Influence Transmission Spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.02201

Biases in retrieving planetary signals in the presence of quasi-periodic stellar activity
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.02217

Parameterizing the Search Space of Starshade Fuel Costs for Optimal Observation Schedules
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.G003747

Space travel might fry your brain, causing permanent learning and memory problems
https://phys.org/news/2019-08-space-brain-permanent-memory-problems.html

New concerns for neurocognitive function during deep space exposures to chronic, low dose rate, neutron radiation
https://www.eneuro.org/content/early/2019/08/05/ENEURO.0094-19.2019

Analytical estimates of secular frequencies for binary star systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.01048

Eccentricities and the Stability of Closely-Spaced Five-Planet Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.01117

Atmospheric characterization of terrestrial exoplanets in the mid-infared: biosignatures, habitability & diversity
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.01316

Expected performances of the Characterising Exoplanet Satellite (CHEOPS). I. Photometric performances from ground-based calibration
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.01636

Unexpected gap creating two peaks in the periods of planets of metal-rich sunlike single stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.01679

Is there anybody out there?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.01907

E.T. Hunt Shouldn’t Be Limited to Earth-like Life, Scientists Say
https://www.space.com/alien-life-hunt-not-limited-earth-like-life.html

TESS Science Conference I
https://tsc.mit.edu/

TESS Science Conference I Live
http://web.mit.edu/webcast/tess/sum19/

Community Involvement in the WFIRST Exoplanet Microlensing Survey
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.00548

The HST PanCET Program: Exospheric Mg II and Fe II in the Near-UV transmission spectrum of WASP-121b using Jitter Decorrelation
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.00619