December 7, 2021 updates Posted on December 7, 2021 by Doug Loss Unbound Close Stellar Encounters in the Solar Neighborhood https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.00852 Astrobiology as a Driver to Connect India’s Public, Scientists, and Space Missions https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/space.2021.0041 Airbus will build ESA’s Ariel exoplanet satellite https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Airbus_will_build_ESA_s_Ariel_exoplanet_satellite Temporal variation of planetary iron as a driver of evolution https://www.pnas.org/content/118/51/e2109865118 The New Generation Planetary Population Synthesis (NGPPS) – III. Warm super-Earths and cold Jupiters: a weak occurrence correlation, but with a strong architecture-composition link https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2021/12/aa38554-20/aa38554-20.html The New Generation Planetary Population Synthesis (NGPPS) – IV. Planetary systems around low-mass stars https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2021/12/aa40390-21/aa40390-21.html The New Generation Planetary Population Synthesis (NGPPS) VI. Introducing KOBE: Kepler Observes Bern Exoplanets – Theoretical perspectives on the architecture of planetary systems: Peas in a pod https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2021/12/aa40761-21/aa40761-21.html Implementation of disequilibrium chemistry to spectral retrieval code ARCiS and application to 16 exoplanet transmission spectra – Indication of disequilibrium chemistry for HD 209458b and WASP-39b https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2021/12/aa41548-21/aa41548-21.html TOI-1431b/MASCARA-5b: A Highly Irradiated Ultrahot Jupiter Orbiting One of the Hottest and Brightest Known Exoplanet Host Stars https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac224e The Peculiar Chemical Pattern of the WASP-160 Binary System: Signatures of Planetary Formation and Evolution? https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac25ef Deep Exploration of the Planets HR 8799 b, c, and d with Moderate-resolution Spectroscopy https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac273a How to decode interstellar messages https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576521006263 The TESS Faint Star Search: 1,617 TOIs from the TESS Primary Mission https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.02176 Systematic KMTNet Planetary Anomaly Search, Paper III: One Wide-Orbit Planet And Two Stellar Binaries https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.02414 Non-Trivial Oblique Spin Equilibria of Super-Earths in Multi-planetary Systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.02482 Investigation of the upper atmosphere in ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-76 b with high-resolution spectroscopy https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.02546 Cronomoons: origin, dynamics, and light-curve features of ringed exomoons https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.02687 Potential Habitability as a Stellar Property: Effects of Model Uncertainties and Measurement Precision https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.02745 Extreme ultraviolet and X-ray driven photochemistry of gaseous exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.02942 On the Stability of Additional Moons Orbiting Kepler-1625 b https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.03248