Interstellar Updates

‘Where is everybody?’ An empirical appraisal of occurrence, prevalence and sustainability of technological species in the Universe
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325780733_‘Where_is_everybody’_An_empirical_appraisal_of_occurrence_prevalence_and_sustainability_of_technological_species_in_the_Universe

Galactic Distribution of Chirality Sources of Organic Molecules
https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.06720

Self-Stirring of Debris Discs by Planetesimals Formed by Pebble Concentration
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.05431

NASA’s TESS Spacecraft Continues Testing Prior to First Observations
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/nasa-s-tess-spacecraft-continues-testing-prior-to-first-observations

NASA’s Webb Space Telescope to Inspect Atmospheres of Gas Giant Exoplanets
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/nasa-s-webb-space-telescope-to-inspect-atmospheres-of-gas-giant-exoplanets

Pros and cons of relativistic interstellar flight
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009457651830897X

Space Capitalism
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-74651-7

Blue Canyon Technologies helps ASTERIA satellite point the way to discovering new planets
http://spacenewsfeed.com/index.php/news/1591-blue-canyon-technologies-helps-asteria-satellite-point-the-way-to-discovering-new-planets

Nuclear and Future Flight Propulsion – Modeling the Thrust of the Direct Fusion Drive
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2018-4769

Super-Earth of 8 Mearth in a 2.2-day orbit around the K5V star K2-216
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.04774

Dust evolution and satellitesimal formation in circumplanetary disks
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.02638

On the incidence of planet candidates in open clusters and a planet confirmation
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.03196

Pros and Cons of Classification of Exoplanets: In Search for the Right Habitability Metric
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Arun_Kenath/publication/326040257_Astrobiology_Newsletter_Vol_11_No_3/links/5b34daafaca2720785f0bf68/Astrobiology-Newsletter-Vol-11-No-3.pdf

Curvature Invariants for Lorentzian Traversable Wormholes
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.10985v1

NASA’s Kepler Spacecraft Pauses Science Observations to Download Science Data
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/nasa-s-kepler-spacecraft-pauses-science-observations-to-download-science-data

The Artificial Inducement of a Local Space Warp Bubble Using a VEM Drive
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2018-4633

A trip to the moon might constrain the Fermi Paradox
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016328717304755

Interior structure models and fluid Love numbers of exoplanets in the super-Earth regime
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2018/07/aa31775-17/aa31775-17.html

TTV-determined Masses for Warm Jupiters and their Close Planetary Companions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.02217

The influence of stellar flare on dynamical state of the atmosphere of exoplanet HD 209458
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.02271

Giant planet effects on terrestrial planet formation and system architecture
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.02463

Minimizing the bias in exoplanet detection – application to radial velocities of LHS 1140
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.02483

Simple geometric approximations for global atmospheres on moderately oblate planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.02405

Predicted microlensing events from analysis of Gaia Data Release 2
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.10630

Oceanic tides from Earth-like to ocean planets
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2018/07/aa32249-17/aa32249-17.html

Mineralogy, Structure and Habitability of Carbon-enriched Rocky Exoplanets: A Laboratory Approach
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.02064