Interstellar Updates

EPIC 249624646: a warm Jupiter and a mini-Neptune in a triple-star system
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.03716

Towards More Reliable Analytic Thermochemical-equilibrium Abundances
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.03764

Lessons for WFIRST CGI from ground-based high-contrast systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.04049

Key Technologies for the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope Coronagraph Instrument
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.04050

A search for technosignatures from TRAPPIST-1, LHS 1140, and 10 planetary systems in the Kepler field with the Green Bank Telescope at 1.15-1.73 GHz
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.04057

Reference star differential imaging of close-in companions and circumstellar disks with the NIRC2 vortex coronagraph at W.M. Keck Observatory
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.04090

Interstellar Probes: The Benefits to Astronomy & Astrophysics
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.04422

X-ray, UV, Optical Irradiances and Age of Barnard’s Star’s new Super-earth Planet:—“Can Life Find a Way” on such cold Planet?
http://clusty.ast.villanova.edu/gallery/Barnard_Poster_AAS2019.pdf

First Stop on the Interstellar Journey: The Solar Gravity Lens Focus
http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2018.71.275

Plasma Dynamics in Firefly’s Z-pinch Fusion Engine
http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2018.71.288

Gram-Scale Nano-Spacecraft Entry into Star Systems
http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2018.71.294

The Interstellar Fusion Fuel Resource Base of Our Solar System
http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2018.71.298

Tests of Fundamental Physics in Interstellar Flight
http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2018.71.306

Technosearch
https://technosearch.seti.org/

Post-conjunction detection of β Pictoris b with VLT/SPHERE
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2019/01/aa34302-18/aa34302-18.html

Extrasolar planets and brown dwarfs around AF-type stars X. The SOPHIE sample: combining the SOPHIE and HARPS surveys to compute the close giant planet mass-period distribution around AF-type stars
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2019/01/aa33431-18/aa33431-18.html

Exoplanet Atmosphere Forecast: Observers Should Expect Spectroscopic Transmission Features to be Muted to 33%
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/aafc63

How planetary growth outperforms migration
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.00523

Climate sensitivity to ozone and its relevance on the habitability of Earth-like planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02897

Climate Sensitivity to Carbon Dioxide and Moist Greenhouse threshold of Earth-like planets under an increasing solar forcing
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02901

Simulating Non-hydrostatic atmospheres on Planets (SNAP): formulation, validation and application to the Jovian atmosphere
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02955

A Wild ‘Interstellar Probe’ Mission Idea Is Gaining Momentum
https://www.space.com/42935-nasa-interstellar-probe-mission-idea.html

Signs of life on a global scale: Earth as a laboratory for exoplanet biosignatures
http://www.portlandpresspublishing.com/sites/default/files/biochemist/Biochemist%20Space%20issue%20Dec%202018/BioDEC18_exoplanet%20biosignatures%20pg%2022.pdf

The fate of planetesimal discs in young open clusters: implications for 1I/’Oumuamua, the Kuiper belt, the Oort cloud and more
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02465

Testing the Detectability of Extraterrestrial O2 with the ELTs using Real Data with Real Noise
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02469

The Oxyometer: A Novel Instrument Concept for Characterizing Exoplanet Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02562

On the formation of our solar system and many other protoplanetary systems observed by ALMA and SPHERE
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02593

Conundrums and constraints concerning the formation of our solar system — An alternative view
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02594

Short life and abrupt death of PicSat, a small 3U CubeSat dreaming of exoplanet detection
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02677

Time-variable electromagnetic star-planet interaction: The TRAPPIST-1 system as an exemplary case
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02747

Secular spin-axis dynamics of exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02831

Review: Far-Infrared Instrumentation and Technology Development for the Next Decade
https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.02389

Young planets orbiting red dwarfs may lack ingredients for life
http://spacenewsfeed.com/index.php/news/2521-young-planets-orbiting-red-dwarfs-may-lack-ingredients-for-life

NASA’s TESS Rounds Up its First Planets, Snares Far-flung Supernovae
https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1542/nasas-tess-rounds-up-its-first-planets-snares-far-flung-supernovae/

Why planetary and exoplanetary protection differ: The case of long duration genesis missions to habitable but sterile M-dwarf oxygen planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02286

Transit Least Squares: An optimized transit detection algorithm to search for periodic transits of small planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02015

Killing Planet Candidates with EVEREST
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02017

Time-resolved image polarimetry of Trappist-1 during planetary transits
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02041

The Rise of ROME (Radio Observations of Magnetized Exoplanets) I. A Multiwavelength Analysis of the Star-Planet Interaction in the HD 189733 System
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02048

Assessing the Intrinsic Uncertainty and Structural Stability of Planetary Models: 1) Parameterized Thermal-Tectonic History Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02136

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs – The enigmatic planetary system GJ 4276: One eccentric planet or two planets in a 2:1 resonance?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02367

The secondary transit of the hot Jupiter WASP-121b at 2 μm
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02383