October 4, 2021 updates Posted on October 4, 2021 by Doug Loss Astrobiology Perspectives on Life in the Universe https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09HMRCL53 Introducing the Venus Collection—Papers from the First Workshop on Habitability of the Cloud Layer https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2021.0142 NASA Confirms Roman Mission’s Flight Design in Milestone Review https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/nasa-confirms-roman-missions-flight-design-in-milestone-review Stellar Winds Drive Strong Variations in Exoplanet Evaporative Outflow Patterns and Transit Absorption Signatures https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abf63a Follow-up of non-transiting planets detected by Kepler – Confirmation of three hot-Jupiters and validation of three other planets https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2021/10/aa40746-21/aa40746-21.html CHEOPS precision phase curve of the Super-Earth 55 Cancri e https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2021/09/aa40892-21/aa40892-21.html The Solar Neighborhood XLVIII: Nine Giant Planets Orbiting Nearby K Dwarfs, and the CHIRON Spectrograph’s Radial Velocity Performance https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac082a A More Precise Mass for GJ 1214 b and the Frequency of Multiplanet Systems Around Mid-M Dwarfs https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac1584 Thin accretion disks around traversable wormholes https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0550321321002455 SETI in 2020 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576521005105 Finding Exoplanets with Quantum Imaging https://physics.aps.org/articles/v14/s122 Cross-sections for heavy atmospheres: H2O continuum https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.00403 TIC~257060897b: an inflated, low-density, hot-Jupiter transiting a rapidly evolving subgiant star https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.00489 Alfnoor: assessing the information content of Ariel’s low resolution spectra with planetary population studies https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.00503 Can the China’s FAST telescope detect extraterrestrial von-Neumann probes? https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.00406