August 29, 2023 updates Posted on August 29, 2023August 29, 2023 by Doug Loss Needles in the Milky Way Haystack: Searching for Dim Stars, Distant Planets, and Extraterrestrial Technology https://etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/21983mzh616 Cold Jupiters and improved masses in 38 Kepler and K2 small planet systems from 3661 HARPS-N radial velocities – No excess of cold Jupiters in small planet systems https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/09/aa46211-23/aa46211-23.html Constraints on sub-terrestrial free-floating planets from Subaru microlensing observations https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.13593 Lava planets interior dynamics govern the long-term evolution of their magma oceans https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.13614 Detection of atmospheric species and dynamics in the bloated hot Jupiter WASP-172~b with ESPRESSO https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.13622 Fully fluorinated non-carbon compounds NF3 and SF6 as ideal technosignature gases https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.13667 Evolution of the Planetary Obliquity: The Eccentric Kozai-Lidov Mechanism Coupled with Tide https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.13923 Formation of inner planets in the presence of a Cold Jupiter: orbital evolution and relative velocities of planetesimals https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.14347 ATMOSPHERIX: I- An open source high resolution transmission spectroscopy pipeline for exoplanets atmospheres with SPIRou https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.14510 ATMOSPHERIX: II- Characterising exoplanet atmospheres through transmission spectroscopy with SPIRou https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.14511 An adaptive optics upgrade for the Automated Planet Finder Telescope using an adaptive secondary mirror https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.14709