Interstellar Updates

Persistence of Technosignatures: A Comment on Lingam and Loeb
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2019.2052

Testing gravity with interstellar precursor missions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.00006

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs — Photospheric parameters of target stars from high-resolution spectroscopy. II. Simultaneous multiwavelength range modeling of activity insensitive lines
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.00807

Runaway climate cooling of ocean planets in the habitable zone: a consequence of seafloor weathering enhanced by melting of high-pressure ice
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.00827

Pairwise Tidal Equilibrium States and the Architecture of Extrasolar Planetary Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.00915

Bond strengthening in dense H2O and implications to planetary composition
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.11990

High order regularised symplectic integrator for collisional planetary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.13240

A sub-Neptune exoplanet with a low-metallicity methane-depleted atmosphere and Mie-scattering clouds
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-019-0800-5

The natural history of ‘Oumuamua
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-019-0816-x

An emission spectrum for WASP-121b measured across the 0.8– wavelength range using the Hubble Space Telescope
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz1753/5524368

Close-in Sub-Neptunes Reveal the Past Rotation History of Their Host Stars: Atmospheric Evolution of Planets in the HD 3167 and K2-32 Planetary Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.12153

A Gap in the Mass Distribution for Warm Neptune and Terrestrial Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.11865

The Application of International Human Rights Instruments in Outer Space Settlements: Today’s Science Fiction, Tomorrow’s Reality
https://journals.assaf.org.za/index.php/per/article/download/5904/7781/

Ploonets: formation, evolution, and detectability of tidally detached exomoons
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.11400

Overcast on Osiris: 3D radiative-hydrodynamical simulations of a cloudy hot Jupiter using the parameterised, phase-equilibrium cloud formation code EddySed
https://arxiv.org/list/astro-ph/new

Upper limits on protolunar disc masses using ALMA observations of directly-imaged exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.11774

TESS mission finds its smallest planet yet
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/nasa-s-tess-mission-finds-its-smallest-planet-yet

Moving Beyond Definitions in the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2018.1980

Hot, rocky and warm, puffy super-Earths orbiting TOI-402 (HD 15337)
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2019/07/aa35457-19/aa35457-19.html

The L 98-59 System: Three Transiting, Terrestrial-size Planets Orbiting a Nearby M Dwarf
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab2459

Main instrument for NASA’s WFIRST mission completes milestone review
https://spacenewsfeed.com/index.php/news/3366-main-instrument-for-nasa-s-wfirst-mission-completes-milestone-review

Constraints on HD 113337 fundamental parameters and planetary system: Combining long-base visible interferometry, disc imaging, and high-contrast imaging
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2019/07/aa35494-19

TESS Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets (THYME): A planet in the 45 Myr Tucana-Horologium association
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.10703

Nearly Polar orbit of the sub-Neptune HD3167 c: Constraints on a multi-planet system dynamical history
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.11013

KMT-2018-BLG-0029Lb: A Very Low Mass-Ratio Spitzer Microlens Planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.11183

The Atmosphere
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.04481

On Alien Worlds, Extraterrestrials Could Be Spewing a Toxic, Smelly Gas. That’s How We Could Find Them.
https://www.livescience.com/65791-alien-life-may-spew-toxic-gas.html

Modelling galactic settlement
https://phys.org/news/2019-06-galactic-settlement.html

10th Global Trajectory Optimisation Competition
https://gtocx.jpl.nasa.gov/gtocx/

Three Red Suns in the Sky: A Transiting, Terrestrial Planet in a Triple M Dwarf System at 6.9 Parsecs
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.10147

Thermal Tides in Rotating Hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.10330

Atmospheric Evolution on Low-Gravity Waterworlds
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.10561

Galactic Tide and Local Stellar Perturbations on the Oort Cloud: Creation of Interstellar Comets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.10617