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
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August 3, 2018 updates
Searching for E.T.: A Universal Units Proposal
http://jbis.org.uk/paper.php?p=2018.71.43
Computing the Minimal Crew for a multi-generational space journey towards Proxima b
http://jbis.org.uk/paper.php?p=2018.71.45
Worldship Ethics: Obligations to the Crew
http://jbis.org.uk/paper.php?p=2018.71.53
The Social Dynamics of Science, Exoplanetary Environments and the Drake Equation
http://jbis.org.uk/paper.php?p=2018.71.65
The Global Catastrophic Risks
http://jbis.org.uk/paper.php?p=2018.71.71
Planet Formation: An Optimized Population-Synthesis Approach
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.03293
ALES: Overview and Upgrades
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.03301
The Planetary Systems Imager: 2-5 Micron Channel
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.03304
New transit timing observations for GJ 436 b, HAT-P-3 b, HAT-P-19 b, WASP-3 b, and XO-2 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.03306
MEAD: Data Reduction Pipeline for ALES Integral Field Spectrograph and LBTI Thermal Infrared Calibration Unit
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.03356
August 10, 2018 updates
The California-Kepler Survey. VI: Kepler Multis and Singles Have Similar Planet and Stellar Properties Indicating a Common Origin
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.03010
Data processing on simulated data for SHARK-NIR
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.03121
OGLE-2014-BLG-1186: gravitational microlensing providing evidence for a planet orbiting the foreground star or for a close binary source?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.03149
LOCNES: Low Cost NIR Extended Solar Telescope
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.03185
Discovery of WASP-174b: Doppler tomography of a near-grazing transit
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.00766
August 9, 2018 updates
Dynamics and Formation of the Near-resonant K2-24 System: Insights from Transit-timing Variations and Radial Velocities
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aaceac
Non-detection of Contamination by Stellar Activity in the Spitzer Transit Light Curves of TRAPPIST-1
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.02808
Predictions of the WFIRST Microlensing Survey I: Bound Planet Detection Rates
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.02490
On-Sky Operations with the ALES Integral Field Spectrograph
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.02571
August 8, 2018 updates
Nanophotonic Heterostructures for Efficient Propulsionand Radiative Cooling of Relativistic Light Sails
https://authors.library.caltech.edu/88412/1/acs.nanolett.8b02035.pdf
Tardigrade Indexing approach on exoplanets
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214552418300415
Spacecraft With Interstellar Medium Momentum Exchange Reactions: The potential and limitations of propellantless interstellar travel
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.02019
Quasi-secular evolution of mildly hierarchical triple systems: analytics and applications for GW-sources and hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.02030
Extreme precision photometry from the ground with beam-shaping diffusers for K2, TESS and beyond
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.02187
Multi-Wavelength High-Resolution Spectroscopy for Exoplanet Detection: Motivation, Instrumentation and First Results
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.02302
New Insights into Cosmic Ray induced Biosignature Chemistry in Earth-like Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.02347
Two decades of Exoplanetary Science with Adaptive Optics
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.02454
Exocomets in the Proxima Centauri system and their importance for water transport
https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.04685