Interstellar Updates

Space colonization remains the only long-term option for humanity: A reply to Torres
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016328718302222

Single site observations of \textit{TESS} single transit detections
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.10687

A Discrete Set of Possible Transit Ephemerides for Two Long Period Gas Giants Orbiting HIP 41378
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.10688

Global or Local Pure-Condensible Atmospheres: Importance of Horizontal Latent Heat Transport
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.10849

Transiting Planets with LSST IV: Detecting Planets around White Dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.10900

Transit Timing Variations and linear ephemerides of confirmed Kepler transiting exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.11104

Revisiting the HIP41378 system with K2 and Spitzer
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.11116

Gap Formation in Planetesimal Disks Via Divergently Migrating Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.10209

MOPSS II: Extreme Optical Scattering Slope for the Inflated Super-Neptune HATS-8b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.10211

Microlensing path parametrization for Earth-like Exoplanet detection around solar mass stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.10230

NASA Technosignatures Workshop (NTW18)
https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/technosignatures2018/

From cold to hot irradiated gaseous exoplanets: A classification scheme with four classes
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.09629

The LUVOIR Mission Concept Study Interim Report
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.09668

The Habitable Exoplanet Observatory (HabEx) Mission Concept Study Interim Report
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.09674

TSARDI: a Machine Learning data rejection algorithm for transiting exoplanet light curves
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.09722

Extrasolar planets and brown dwarfs around AF-type stars. X.The SOPHIE northern sample. Combining the SOPHIE and HARPS surveys to compute the close giant planet mass-period distribution around AF-type stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.09914

A possible advantage of telescopes with a non-circular pupil
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.09933

First-order mean motion resonances in two-planet systems: general analysis and observed systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.10042

A SEA BASS on the exoplanet HD209458b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.09393

Both Halves of NASA’s Webb Telescope Successfully Communicate
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/both-halves-of-nasa-s-webb-telescope-successfully-communicate

A Planetary Mass and Stellar Radius Relationship for Exoplanets Orbiting Red Giants
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.09099

Dependence of Biological Activity on the Surface Water Fraction of Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.09118

2018 Census of Interstellar, Circumstellar, Extragalactic, Protoplanetary Disk, and Exoplanetary Molecules
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.09132

Directed Energy Interception of Satellites
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.09196

Forming Gliese 876 Through Smooth Disk Migration
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.02200

Handbook of Life Support Systems for Spacecraft and Extraterrestrial Habitats
https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-3-319-09575-2

Toward a new paradigm for Type II migration
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2018/09/aa33539-18/aa33539-18.html

The HADES RV Programme with HARPS-N at TNG VIII. GJ15A: a multiple wide planetary system sculpted by binary interaction
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2018/09/aa32535-17/aa32535-17.html

Gaia plus Hipparcos give exoplanet mass
https://academic.oup.com/astrogeo/article-abstract/59/5/5.6/5099068

Exoplanet with metals in the air
https://academic.oup.com/astrogeo/article-abstract/59/5/5.8/5099054

Detection of planetary signals by reflected light of the host star using the autocorrelation of spectra
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/sty2593/5104421

Application of Adaptive Optics for Illumination Stability in Precision Radial Velocity Measurements in Astronomical Spectroscopy
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/sty2542/5101469

Observability of molecular species in a nitrogen dominated atmosphere for 55 Cancri e
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.08230

First Resolution of Microlensed Images
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.08243

A Bayesian Framework for Exoplanet Direct Detection and Non-Detection
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.08261

Characterizing Vibrations at the Subaru Telescope for the Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme Adaptive Optics instrument
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.08296

SCExAO, an instrument with a dual purpose: perform cutting-edge science and develop new technologies
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.08301

beta Pictoris b post conjunction detection with VLT/SPHERE
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.08354

Properties and occurrence rates of Kepler exoplanet candidates as a function of host star metallicity from the DR25 catalog
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.08385

Kepler-1656b: a Dense Sub-Saturn With an Extreme Eccentricity
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.08436

Dynamical instability and its implications for planetary system architecture
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.08499

The Vegetation Red Edge Biosignature Through Time on Earth and Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.08832

K2-265 b: A Transiting Rocky Super-Earth
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.08869

EPIC 249451861b: an Eccentric Warm Saturn transiting a G-dwarf
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.08879

Plausible home stars of the interstellar object ‘Oumuamua found in Gaia DR2
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.09009

Detecting Water In the atmosphere of HR 8799 c with L-band High Dispersion Spectroscopy Aided By Adaptive Optics
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.09080

Turbulence-driven thermal and kinetic energy fluxes in the atmospheres of hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.07890

Why do protoplanetary disks appear not massive enough to form the known exoplanet population?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.07374