Interstellar Updates

Indifferently Spacefaring Civilizations
https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2018/05/04/indifferently-spacefaring-civilizations/

Dusty disc-planet interaction with dust-free simulations
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.00940

An Estimate of the Yield of Single-Transit Planetary Events from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.00956

Multi-band high resolution spectroscopy rules out the hot Jupiter BD+20 1790b – First data from the GIARPS Commissioning
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.01281

Helium in the eroding atmosphere of an exoplanet
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.01298

The Breakthrough Starshot System Model
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.01306

Unmasking the hidden NGTS-3Ab: a hot Jupiter in an unresolved binary system
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.01378

The California Kepler Survey VII. Precise Planet Radii Leveraging Gaia DR2 Reveal the Stellar Mass Dependence of the Planet Radius Gap
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.01453

OGLE-2015-BLG-1459L: The Challenges of Exo-Moon Microlensing
https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.09651

Modular Active Self-Assembling Space Telescope Swarms
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2018_Phase_I_Phase_II/Modular_Active_Self-Assembling_Space_Telescope_Swarms

Pulsed Fission-Fusion (PuFF) Propulsion Concept
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2018_Phase_I_Phase_II/PulsedFission-Fusion_Propulsion_Concept

A Breakthrough Propulsion Architecture for Interstellar Precursor Missions
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2018_Phase_I_Phase_II/Breakthrough_Propulsion_Architecture_for_Interstellar_Precursor_Missions

Direct Multipixel Imaging and Spectroscopy of an Exoplanet with a Solar Gravity Lens Mission
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2018_Phase_I_Phase_II/Direct_Multipixel_Imaging_and_Spectroscopy

Mach Effect for In Space Propulsion: Interstellar Mission
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2018_Phase_I_Phase_II/Mach_Effect_for_In_Space_Propulsion_Interstellar_Mission

Three Small Planets Transiting the Bright Young Field Star K2-233
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aabde8

Generation of a Circumstellar Gas Disk by Hot Jupiter WASP-12b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.00596

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs: A low-mass planet in the temperate zone of the nearby K2-18
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.00830

The chemical composition of α Cen AB revisited
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.00929

Redox evolution via gravitational differentiation on low mass planets: implications for abiotic oxygen, water loss and habitability
https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.00345

A better characterization of the chemical composition of exoplanets atmospheres with ARIEL
https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.08433

Moonfalls: Collisions between the Earth and its past moons
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.00019

Planet Populations as a Function of Stellar Properties
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.00023

Global Climate and Atmospheric Composition of the Ultra-Hot Jupiter WASP-103b from HST and Spitzer Phase Curve Observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.00029

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

Extremely Irradiated Hot Jupiters: Non-Oxide Inversions, H- Opacity, and Thermal Dissociation of Molecules
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.00038

From thermal dissociation to condensation in the atmospheres of ultra hot Jupiters: WASP-121b in context
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.00096

Revised Radii of Kepler Stars and Planets using Gaia Data Release 2
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.00231

A HST/WFC3 Thermal Emission Spectrum of the Hot Jupiter HAT-P-7b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.00424

Space Settlement: What’s the Rush?
https://www.academia.edu/attachments/56028915/download_file?s=work_strip

How Will An Organism Get to Space?
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/presentation/f7b5/781cffb29cedf4291321e22fe6f4b76c69fa.pdf

Absolute densities in exoplanetary systems. Photodynamical modelling of Kepler-138.
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/sty1050/4987222

Mars’ growth stunted by an early giant planet instability
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103517308424

TRAPPIST-1e Has a Large Iron Core
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.10618

The detectability of radio emission from exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.11006

Evidence for unresolved exoplanet-hosting binaries in Gaia DR2
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.11082

The XUV environments of exoplanets from Jupiter-size to super-Earth
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.11124

A Comparative Analysis of the Cobb-Douglas Habitability Score (CDHS) with the Earth Similarity Index (ESI)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.11176

Robo-AO Kepler Survey V: The effect of physically associated stellar companions on planetary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.10208

Limb and gravity-darkening coefficients for the TESS satellite at several metallicities, surface gravities, and microturbulent velocities
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.10295

Planetary Migration in Protoplanetary Disks
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.10578