Interstellar Updates

Exoplanet Terra Incognita
http://www3.leibniz-kis.de/~sveta/papers/2018_berdyugina_etal_terra_incognita.pdf

Preparing the NIRSpec/JWST science data calibration: from ground testing to sky
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.06922

TDEM final report: Enhanced direct imaging exoplanet detection with astrometry mass determination
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.06933

Scientific Discovery with the James Webb Space Telescope
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.06941

Long Term Planetary Habitability and the Carbonate-Silicate Cycle
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.06943

Automatic vetting of planet candidates from ground based surveys: Machine learning with NGTS
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.07089

Planets, candidates, and binaries from the CoRoT/Exoplanet programme: the CoRoT transit catalogue
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.07164

Ground-based optical transmission spectroscopy of the small, rocky exoplanet GJ 1132b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.07328

About 30% of Sun-like Stars Have Kepler-like Planetary Systems: A Study of their Intrinsic Architecture
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.09526

Gradations of Panspermia
http://geopolicraticus.tumblr.com/post/174016333357/gradations-of-panspermia

House appropriations bill partially restores WFIRST funding
http://spacenews.com/house-appropriations-bill-partially-restores-wfirst-funding/

Sun flux variation due to the effects of orbiting planets. Case of study of a non-compact planetary system
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.06526

Polarization of Trappist-1 by the Transit of its Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.06722

Radiation Pressure on a Diffractive Sailcraft
https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.02940

Measurements of Radiation Pressure owing to the Grating Momentum
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.04774

Flying on a Rainbow: A Solar-Driven Diffractive Sailcraft
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.05864

Expanding cosmological civilizations on the back of an envelope
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.06329

1I/2017 ‘Oumuamua-like Interstellar Asteroids as Possible Messengers from the Dead Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.02658

Inner Super-Earths, Outer Gas Giants: How Pebble Isolation and Migration Feedback Keep Jupiters Cold
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03648

Dynamical Constraints on Nontransiting Planets Orbiting TRAPPIST-1
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aabee8

Theoretical validation of potential habitability via analytical and boosted tree methods: An optimistic study on recently discovered exoplanets
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213133717301105

Large Scale Searches for Brown Dwarfs and Free-Floating Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.05661

Using Deep Space Climate Observatory Measurements to Study the Earth as An Exoplanet
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.05834

Formation of S-type planets in close binaries: scattering induced tidal capture of circumbinary planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.05868

HATS-59b,c: A Transiting Hot Jupiter and a Cold Massive Giant Planet Around a Sun-Like Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.05925

Astrobiology, Discovery, and Societal Impact
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108556941

Exo-Milankovitch Cycles II: Climates of G-dwarf Planets in Dynamically Hot Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.00283

An 8 Mearth super-Earth in a 2.2 day orbit around the K5V star K2-216
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.04774

Tidal Evolution of Kepler lower-mass Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.04885

Modeling Martian Atmospheric Losses over Time: Implications for Exoplanetary Climate Evolution and Habitability
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.05016

A search for transiting planets in the β Pictoris system
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.05240

The dynamical evolution of transiting planetary systems including a realistic collision prescription
https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.08939