September 9, 2021 updates Posted on September 9, 2021 by Doug Loss Advances in Deep Space Exploration via Simulators and Machine Learning https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5xt0p78s Targeted launch date for Webb: 18 December 2021 https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/Targeted_launch_date_for_Webb_18_December_2021 Scaling laws for stagnant-lid convection with a buoyant crust https://academic.oup.com/gji/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/gji/ggab366/6366931 Five Methods of Exoplanet Detection https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/2012/1/012135 Efficient and precise transit light curves for rapidly-rotating, oblate stars https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.03250 The Planetary Systems Imager Adaptive Optics System: An Initial Optical Design and Performance Analysis Tools for the PSI-Red AO System https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.03321 The K2-OjOS Project: New and Revisited Planets and Candidates in K2 Campaigns 5, 16 & 18 https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.03346 TOI-3362b: A Proto-Hot Jupiter Undergoing High-Eccentricity Tidal Migration https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.03771