Interstellar Updates

Success in critical communications tests for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/success-in-critical-communications-tests-for-nasas-james-webb-space-telescope

Kepler resumes operations despite malfunctioning thruster
https://spacenews.com/kepler-resumes-operations-despite-malfunctioning-thruster/

Exoplanet Science Strategy
https://www.nap.edu/catalog/25187/exoplanet-science-strategy

Habitable Climate Scenarios for Proxima Centauri b with a Dynamic Ocean
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2017.1760

Continuous reorientation of synchronous terrestrial planets controlled by mantle convection
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01150

Detecting isotopologues in exoplanet atmospheres using ground-based high-dispersion spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01156

Effects of non-Kozai mutual inclinations on two-planet system stability through all phases of stellar evolution
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01157

Radial velocities from the N2K Project: 6 new cold gas giant planets orbiting HD 55696, HD 98736, HD 148164, HD 203473, and HD 211810
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01228

KMT-2017-BLG-0165Lb: A Super-Neptune mass planet Orbiting a Sun-like Host Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01288

Idealized Wind-driven Ocean Circulations On Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01376

Differences in water vapor radiative transfer among 1D models can significantly affect the inner edge of the habitable zone
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01397

Abrupt climate transition of icy worlds from snowball to moist or runaway greenhouse
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01418

Magma oceans as a critical stage in the tectonic development of rocky planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01629

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

The 0.8-4.5μm broadband transmission spectra of TRAPPIST-1 planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.01402

A Universal Nightside Temperature on Hot Jupiters due to Nocturnal Clouds
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.00002

Kepler-730b is probably a hot Jupiter with a small companion
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.00007

Stellar Obliquities & Planetary Alignments (SOPA) I. Spin-Orbit measurements of Three Transiting Hot Jupiters: WASP-72b, WASP-100b, & WASP-109b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.00314

The ice composition in the protoplanetary disk V883 Ori revealed by its stellar outburst
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.00353

NGTS-4b: A sub-Neptune Transiting in the Desert
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.00678

A Reassessment of Families of Solutions to the Puzzle of Boyajian’s Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.00693

High-Contrast study of the candidate planets and protoplanetary disk around HD~100546
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01001

HATS-60b – HATS-69b: Ten Transiting Planets From HATSouth
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01048

Scaling Relations Associated with Millimeter Continuum Sizes in Protoplanetary Disks
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.10510

Metallicity effect and planet mass function in pebble-based planet formation models
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.10707

Molecule mapping of HR8799b using OSIRIS on Keck: Strong detection of water and carbon monoxide, but no methane
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.10790

Constraining Gas-Phase Carbon, Oxygen, and Nitrogen in the IM Lup Protoplanetary Disk
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.10682

Habitability of Exoplanet Waterworlds
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aad6e0

Ground- and Space-based Detection of the Thermal Emission Spectrum of the Transiting Hot Jupiter KELT-2Ab
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aad781

MOA-2015-BLG-337: A Planetary System with a Low-mass Brown Dwarf/Planetary Boundary Host, or a Brown Dwarf Binary
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aad5ee

A Search for Refraction in Kepler Photometry of Gas Giants
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/aadcb1

The Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat (SPARCS): A Mission to Understand the Impact of Stars in Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.09954

Dust Production and Depletion in Evolved Planetary Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.09967

Hydrohalite Salt-albedo Feedback Could Cool M-dwarf Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.09977

Retrieval of planetary and stellar properties in transmission spectroscopy with Aura
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.10017

A Quantitative Comparison of Exoplanet Catalogs
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.10236

Selective Aggregation Experiments on Planetesimal Formation and Mercury-Like Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.10246

The Near-Infrared Transmission Spectra of TRAPPIST-1 Planets b, c, d, e, f, and g and Stellar Contamination in Multi-Epoch Transit Spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.02086