Interstellar Updates

A Thought Experiment Relevant to the Fermi Paradox
https://geopolicraticus.wordpress.com/2018/04/21/a-thought-experiment-relevant-to-the-fermi-paradox/

Exoplanet Biosignatures: A Framework for Their Assessment
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2017.1737

Woodpeckers and Diamonds: Some Aspects of Evolutionary Convergence in Astrobiology
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2017.1741

An Accurate Mass Determination for Kepler-1655b, a Moderately Irradiated World with a Significant Volatile Envelope
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aab8f3

Observational Techniques With Transiting Exoplanetary Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07357

A universal spin-mass relation for brown dwarfs and planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07380

Analyzing astronomical data with Apache Spark [not specifically interstellar-oriented, but useful in analysis]
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07501

The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: 1.1-1.9 GHz observations of 692 Nearby Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.03491

The GAPS Programme with HARPS-N at TNG XVII. Line profile indicators and kernel regression as diagnostics of radial-velocity variations due to stellar activity in solar-like stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07039

The Peculiar Atmospheric Chemistry of KELT-9b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07137

Increased Tidal Dissipation Using Advanced Rheological Models: Implications for Io and Tidally Active Exoplanets
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aab784

Stellar Photospheric Abundances as a Probe of Disks and Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.06414

ALMA resolves CI emission from the β Pictoris debris disk
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.06479

Properties of the single Jovian planet population and the pursuit of Solar system analogues
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.06547

The GALAH survey: An abundance, age, and kinematic inventory of the solar neighbourhood made with TGAS
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.05869

Venus as an Analog for Hot Earths
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.05889

Interferometric diameters of five evolved intermediate-mass planet-hosting stars measured with PAVO at the CHARA Array
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.05976

The GALAH Survey: Second Data Release
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.06041

The contribution of the ARIEL space mission to the study of planetary formation
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.06179

A Serendipitous MWA Search for Narrowband Signals from ‘Oumuamua
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aab359/meta

Wavelet based speckle suppression for exoplanet imaging – Application of a de-noising technique in the time domain
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.05063

Ultra-short-period planets from secular chaos
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.05065

Identifying inflated super-Earths and photo-evaporated cores
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.05069

Exoplanet Science Priorities from the Perspective of Internal and Surface Processes for Silicate and Ice Dominated Worlds
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.05094

Highly Volcanic Exoplanets, Lava Worlds, and Magma Ocean Worlds: An Emerging Class of Dynamic Exoplanets of Significant Scientific Priority
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.05110

Characterizing K2 Candidate Planetary Systems Orbiting Low-Mass Stars III: A High Mass & Low Envelope Fraction for the Warm Neptune K2-55b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.05148

WASP-104b is Darker than Charcoal
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.05334

Architectures of planetary systems formed by pebble accretion
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.05510

KPS-1b: the first transiting exoplanet discovered using an amateur astronomer’s wide-field CCD data
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.05551

Microphysical Modeling of Mineral Clouds in GJ1214 b and GJ436 b: Predicting Upper Limits on the Cloud-Top Height
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.05708

What and Whence 1I/`Oumuamua: A Contact Binary from the Debris of a Young Planetary System?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.06721

Particle accretion onto planets in discs with hydrodynamic turbulence
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.08730