Interstellar Updates

Water-worlds are common: Exoplanets may contain vast amounts of water
https://phys.org/news/2018-08-water-worlds-common-exoplanets-vast-amounts.html

Warping a protoplanetary disc with a planet on an inclined orbit
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.05693

Panoramic optical and near-infrared SETI instrument: overall specifications and science program
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.05772

Panoramic optical and near-infrared SETI instrument: optical and structural design concepts
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.05773

Panoramic optical and near-infrared SETI instrument: prototype design and testing
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.05774

Exonephology: Transmission spectra from a 3D simulated cloudy atmosphere of HD209458b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.05887

Is Humanity About To Accidentally Declare Interstellar War On Alien Civilizations?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2018/08/07/is-humanity-about-to-accidentally-declare-interstellar-war-on-alien-civilizations/#7cfdbdd026a9

Why Humanity Probably Won’t Accidentally Start An Interstellar War With An Alien Civilization
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thelabbench/2018/08/16/why-humanity-probably-wont-accidentally-start-an-interstellar-war-with-an-alien-civilization/#47e0d1c3dfa7

Tiny ASTERIA satellite achieves a first for CubeSats
https://news.mit.edu/2018/mit-nasa-cubesat-asteria-exoplanet-transit-0815

Global-mean Vertical Tracer Mixing in Planetary Atmospheres I: Theory and Fast-rotating Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.09149

Global-mean Vertical Tracer Mixing in Planetary Atmospheres II: Tidally Locked Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.05365

Atomic iron and titanium in the atmosphere of the exoplanet KELT-9b
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0401-y

Atmospheric Retrieval of Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.04824

Detecting free-floating planets using water-depend colour terms in the next generation of infrared space-based surveys
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.04828

SPHERE / ZIMPOL high resolution polarimetric imager. I. System overview, PSF parameters, coronagraphy, and polarimetry
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.05008

An ice giant exoplanet interpretation of the anomaly in microlensing event OGLE-2011-BLG-0173
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.00049

Deep Space Commodities
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-90303-3

Astrobiology and Society in Europe Today
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-96265-8

Material Properties for the Interiors of Massive Giant Planets and Brown Dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.04472

Searching for Biosignatures in Exoplanetary Impact Ejecta
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.04504

Revised Exoplanet Radii and Habitability Using Gaia Data Release 2
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.04533

Trapping low-mass planets at the inner edge of the protostellar disc
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.04546

Characterization of Low Mass K2 Planet Hosts Using Near-Infrared Spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.03652

Formation of a planetary Laplace resonance through migration in an eccentric disk – The case of GJ876
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.04223