Interstellar 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

Exploring the realm of scaled solar system analogues with HARPS
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2018/07/aa32791-18/aa32791-18.html

Interior characterization in multiplanetary systems: TRAPPIST-1
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.01803

The Effect of Disequilibrium Carbon Chemistry on the Atmospheric Circulation and Phase Curves of Hot Jupiter HD 189733b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.02011

NASA Develops Technology Today to Enable Breakthrough Observations Tomorrow
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20180003964.pdf

Equation of state of SiC at extreme conditions: new insight into the interior of carbon rich exoplanets
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2018JE005582

A Search for Exoplanets around Northern Circumpolar Stars. IV. Six Planet Candidates to the K Giants, HD 44385, HD 97619, HD 106574, HD 118904, HD 164428, and HD 202432
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.01109

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. A Neptune-mass planet traversing the habitable zone around HD 180617
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.01183

A 1574-day periodicity of transits orbiting KIC 8462852
https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.01081

The hidden depths of planetary atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.00738

VLA Detects Possible Extrasolar Planetary-Mass Magnetic Powerhouse
https://public.nrao.edu/news/planetary-mass-powerhouse/

Modeling Repeated M Dwarf Flaring at an Earth-like Planet in the Habitable Zone: Atmospheric Effects for an Unmagnetized Planet
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2017.1794

Disruption of a planet spiralling into its host star
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.00467

A second planet with an Earth-like composition orbiting the nearby M dwarf LHS 1140
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.00485

Three-Dimensional Circulation Driving Chemical Disequilibrium in WASP-43b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.00501

Overview of the spectrometer optical fiber feed for the Habitable-zone Planet Finder
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.00557

Detection and Doppler monitoring of EPIC 246471491, a system of four transiting planets smaller than Neptune
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.00575

A Simple Model for Radiative and Convective Fluxes in Planetary Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.00579

Penetrative Convection in Super‐Earth planets: Consequences of MgSiO3 post‐Perovskite Dissociation Transition and Implications for super‐Earth GJ 876 d
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2018JE005633

Understanding WASP-12b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.00052

Habitability in the Omega Centauri Cluster
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.00053

Radioactive nuclei from cosmochronology to habitability
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.00233

Characterisation of the HD 219134 multi-planet system I. Observations of stellar magnetism, wind, and high-energy flux
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.00406

Characterisation of the HD219134 multi-planet system II. Stellar-wind sputtered exospheres in rocky planets b & c
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.00404