Interstellar Updates

Stellar imaging coronagraph and exoplanet coronal spectrometer: two additional instruments for exoplanet exploration onboard the WSO-UV 1.7-m orbital telescope
https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.4.4.044001

Biosignatures for Astrobiology
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-96175-0

Mach Effect Gravity Assist Drive-New Results
https://physics.fullerton.edu/~heidi/abstracts.pdf

The Exo-Life Finder (ELF) telescope: New strategies for direct detection of exoplanet biosignatures and technosignatures
https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2313781

An alternative stable solution for the Kepler-419 system, obtained with the use of a genetic algorithm
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/forth/aa31997-17.pdf

A 2 R ⊕ Planet Orbiting the Bright Nearby K Dwarf Wolf 503
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aaddfe

Microlensing Searches for Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.02691

The habitable zone for Earthlike exomoons orbiting Kepler-1625b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.02712

3D Aeronomy Modeling of Close-in Exoplanets
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/sty2652/5113484

Planet Occurrence Rate Density Models Including Stellar Effective Temperature
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/aadff1

Physical constraints for the evolution of life on exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.02007

Direct Imaging of Exoplanets at the Era of the Extremely Large Telescopes
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.02031

Origin of 1I/’Oumuamua. I. An ejected protoplanetary disk object?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.02148

Deciphering the atmosphere of HAT-P-12b: solving discrepant results
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.02172

HD 202772A B: A Transiting Hot Jupiter Around A Bright, Mildly Evolved Star In A Visual Binary Discovered By Tess
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.02341

Construction of Europe’s exoplanet hunter Plato begins
http://spacenewsfeed.com/index.php/news/2099-construction-of-europe-s-exoplanet-hunter-plato-begins

Evidence for a large exomoon orbiting Kepler-1625b
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/10/eaav1784

Ion-beam-driven Planetary Physics Research at FAIR
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/aadd4c

Scientific image rendering for space scenes with the SurRender software
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.01423

Detection of planetary signals by reflected light of the host star using the autocorrelation of spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.01792

Bayesian approach to SETI
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.01207

A limit on gas accretion onto close-in super-Earth cores from disk accretion
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.01389

The ExoMol database: molecular line lists for exoplanet and other hot atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.05890

Exoplanet phase curves: observations and theory
https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.07696

Atmospheric characterization of directly imaged exoplanets with JWST/MIRI
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.00894

Outer Space as a Socioeconomic Field
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-96857-5_4

The Global Catastrophic Risks Connected with Possibility of Finding Alien AI During SETI
https://philpapers.org/rec/TURTRC

The Origins Space Telescope (OST) Mission Concept Study Interim Report
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.09702

Implications of Directed Energy for SETI
http://www.deepspace.ucsb.edu/projects/implications-of-directed-energy-for-seti

Capturing the oxidation of silicon carbide in rocky exoplanetary interiors
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/forth/aa33942-18.pdf

Single site observations of TESS monotransit detections
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/forth/aa34014-18.pdf

A Cold Neptune Beyond the Snow Line in the Provisional WFIRST Field
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.00014

On the detectability of transiting planets orbiting white dwarfs using LSST
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.00776