Interstellar Updates

TESS readies for takeoff
https://news.mit.edu/2018/tess-readies-takeoff-discover-exoplanets-0412

Earth as an Exoplanet
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.04138

Mars’ Growth Stunted by an Early Giant Planet Instability
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.04233

X-Ray Ionization of Planet-Opened Gaps in Protostellar Disks
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.04265

The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: Wide-bandwidth Digital Instrumentation for the CSIRO Parkes 64-m Telescope
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.04571

A Multi-Year Search For Transits Of Proxima Centauri. I: Light Curves Corresponding To Published Ephemerides
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.04284

The cosmic gorilla effect or the problem of undetected non terrestrial intelligent signals
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009457651731706X

On The Lack of Circumbinary Planets Orbiting Isolated Binary Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.03676

Confirming Variability in the Secondary Eclipse Depth of the Super-Earth 55 Cancri e
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.03735

The Silurian Hypothesis: Would it be possible to detect an industrial civilization in the geological record?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.03748

Planets around the evolved stars 24 Booties and γ Libra: A 30d-period planet and a double giant-planet system in possible 7:3 MMR
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.04008

Connecting Planetary Composition with Formation
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.04070

Interstellar Escape from Proxima b is Barely Possible with Chemical Rockets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.03698

What is Alpha Centauri hiding? Searches for Earth-like planets ramp up around our nearest stellar neighbor
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/04/what-alpha-centauri-hiding-searches-earth-planets-ramp-around-our-nearest-stellar

Finding and Characterizing Other Worlds: the Thermal-IR ELT Opportunity
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.03218

The HADES RV Programme with HARPS-N@TNG VIII. Gl15A: A multiple wide planetary system sculpted by binary interaction
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.03476

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