Interstellar Updates

NASA weighs delaying WFIRST to fund JWST overrun
https://spacenews.com/nasa-weighs-delaying-wfirst-to-fund-jwst-overrun/

A more comprehensive habitable zone for finding life on other planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.09504

Planets around evolved intermediate-mass stars in open clusters II. Are there really planets around IC4651No9122, NGC2423No3 and NGC4349No127?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.09608

Chemistry During the Gas-rich Stage of Planet Formation
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.09635

On the co-orbital motion in the three-body problem: existence of quasi-periodic horseshoe-shaped orbits
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.07262

WEIRD: Wide-orbit Exoplanet search with InfraRed Direct imaging
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.08799

Modeled Temperature-Dependent Clouds with Radiative Feedback in Hot Jupiter Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.08890

Relative Likelihood of Success in the Searches for Primitive versus Intelligent Extraterrestrial Life
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.08879

Space, Architecture, and Science Fiction: An Architectural Interpretation of Space Colonization
https://cgscholar.com/bookstore/works/space-architecture-and-science-fiction

NASA faces funding challenge for JWST in future years
https://spacenews.com/nasa-faces-funding-challenge-for-jwst-in-future-years/

Rio 2.0: revising the Rio scale for SETI detections
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/rio-20-revising-the-rio-scale-for-seti-detections/DF9D6EABEA7D8D84999234BCFB3FADB4

High-energy environment of super-Earth 55 Cancri e – I. Far-UV chromospheric variability as a possible tracer of planet-induced coronal rain
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2018/07/aa32700-18/aa32700-18.html

A Search for Exoplanets around Northern Circumpolar Stars. IV. Six Planet Candidates to the K Giants, HD 44385, HD 97619, HD 106574, HD 118904, HD 164428, and HD 202432
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aacbc1

Chromatic transit light curves of disintegrating rocky planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.07973

The HOSTS Survey for Exozodiacal Dust: Preliminary results and future prospects
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.08209

Prospects for the characterisation of exo-zodiacal dust with the VLTI
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.08210

Atmospheric Circulation of Brown Dwarfs and Jupiter and Saturn-like Planets: Zonal Jets, Long-term Variability, and QBO-type Oscillations
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.08433

Color Classification of Extrasolar Giant Planets: Prospects and Cautions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.08453

SPOTS: The Search for Planets Orbiting Two Stars. III. Complete Sample and Statistical Analysis
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.08687

Astrotheology: Science and Theology Meet Extraterrestrial Life
https://www.amazon.com/Astrotheology-Science-Theology-Meet-Extraterrestrial/dp/1532606397/

Handbook of Exoplanets
https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-3-319-30648-3

Valuing Life-Detection Missions
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2017.1813

Earth Without Life: A Systems Model of a Global Abiotic Nitrogen Cycle
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2017.1700

Carbon Cycling and Habitability of Earth-Sized Stagnant Lid Planets
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2017.1695

Atmospheric escape from the TRAPPIST-1 planets and implications for habitability
http://www.pnas.org/content/115/2/260

Hydrogen and helium ingassing during terrestrial planet accretion
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X18304035

Atmospheric Escape and the Evolution of Close-in Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.07609

Survival of non-coplanar, closely-packed planetary systems after a close encounter
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.07668

The first super-Earth Detection from the High Cadence and High Radial Velocity Precision Dharma Planet Survey
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.07098

Review of high-contrast imaging systems for current and future ground-based and space-based telescopes III. Technology opportunities and pathways
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.07100

Upgrading the Gemini Planet Imager: GPI 2.0
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.07145

The Gemini Planet Imager: Looking back over five years and forward to the future
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.07146

Mining the GPIES database
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.07153

Air, Telescope, and Instrument Temperature Effects on the Gemini Planet Imager’s Image Quality
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.07157