Interstellar Updates

NASA minimizes threat of JWST delay from shutdown
https://spacenews.com/nasa-minimizes-threat-of-jwst-delay-from-shutdown/

New NASA Team Tackles Next Challenges in Detecting Life Beyond Earth
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/new-nasa-team-tackles-next-challenges-in-detecting-life-beyond-earth

The Network for Life Detection
https://www.nfold.org/

The Laboratory for Agnostic Biosignatures
https://www.agnosticbiosignatures.org/

Nexus for Exoplanet System Science
https://nexss.info/

A water budget dichotomy of rocky protoplanets from 26Al-heating
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04026

Interstellar Travels On Board of Photon Rockets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.03869

Can a machine learn the outcome of planetary collisions?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04052

Three transiting planet discoveries from the Wide Angle Search for Planets: WASP-85 A b; WASP-116 b, and WASP-149 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.7761

Thermo-compositional diabatic convection in the atmospheres of brown dwarfs and in Earth’s atmosphere and oceans
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.03553

Should N-body integrators be symplectic everywhere in phase space?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.03684

Stellar energetic particles in the magnetically turbulent habitable zones of TRAPPIST-1-like planetary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.03732

Tidal Heating and the Habitability of the TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.03867

A resonant pair of warm giant planets revealed by TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.03900

First observation of a planetary transit with the SPARC4 CCD: improved parameters for HATS-24b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.03924

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Chromospheric modeling of M2-3 V stars with PHOENIX
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.03992

Exo-Astrosociology and the Search for Technosignatures
http://www.astrosociology.org/Library/PDF/JPass–Exo-AstrosociologyAndTechnosignatures.pdf

Some Assembly Required: Giant Next-Generation Space Telescopes Could Be Built Off Earth
https://www.space.com/43273-building-big-space-observatories-off-earth.html

Is Earth special?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825218306524

Speeding past planets? Asteroids radiatively propelled by giant branch Yarkovsky effects
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.02795

NASA’s Webb Is Sound After Completing Critical Milestones
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12552

Free Vibration and Buckling of a Stripped Solar Sail
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/full/10.2514/1.A34342

Machine Vision and Deep Learning for Classification of Radio SETI Signals
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.02426

Comment on “the ultimate limits of the relativistic rocket equation. The Planck photon rocket”
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576518317818

Interlocking, reconfigurable, reconstitutable, reformable cell-based system with nested ring structures
https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/64/69/b3/34ca612390a3af/US20190023419A1.pdf

Interlocking, reconfigurable, reconstitutable, reformable cell-based space system
https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/43/91/5b/494501958ec00e/US20190023424A1.pdf

astroquery: An Astronomical Web-querying Package in Python
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aafc33

Exploring the formation by core accretion and the luminosity evolution of directly-imaged planets: The case of HIP 65426 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.01869

Dark Hole Maintenance and A Posteriori Intensity Estimation in the Presence of Speckle Drift in a High-Contrast Space Coronagraph
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.01880

So close, so different: characterization of the K2-36 planetary system with HARPS-N
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.01881

The misaligned orbit of the Earth-sized planet Kepler-408b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.02057

Occurrence Rates of Planets orbiting FGK Stars: Combining Kepler DR25, Gaia DR2 and Bayesian Inference
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.01417

The Ability of Significant Tidal Stress to Initiate Plate Tectonics
https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.09898