March 5, 2021 updates A Method for Creating Enormous Space Telescopes https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2021/03/04/a-method-for-creating-enormous-space-telescopes/ A nearby transiting rocky exoplanet that is suitable for atmospheric investigation https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6533/1038 A blazing nearby super-Earth https://www.mpia.de/news/science/2021-05-gliese486b The JADE code: Coupling secular exoplanetary dynamics and photo-evaporation https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.02627 Closed-formed ab initio solutions of geometric albedos and reflected light phase curves of exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.02673 A transiting warm giant planet around the young active star TOI-201 https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.02685 The future lifespan of Earth’s oxygenated Atmosphere https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.02694 A Gaussian Process Regression Reveals No Evidence for Planets Orbiting Kapteyn’s Star https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.02709 Longevity is the key factor in the search for technosignatures https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.02923 First Detection of Hydroxyl Radical Emission from an Exoplanet Atmosphere: High-dispersion Characterization of WASP-33b using Subaru/IRD https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.03094
March 4, 2021 updates Origins Space Telescope science drivers to design traceability https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/Journal-of-Astronomical-Telescopes-Instruments-and-Systems/volume-7/issue-1/011012/Origins-Space-Telescope-science-drivers-to-design-traceability/10.1117/1.JATIS.7.1.011012.full Evo-SETI: Life Evolution Statistics on Earth and Exoplanets https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030519308 Hemispheric Tectonics on LHS 3844b https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abe400 Semiempirical Modeling of the Atmospheres of the M Dwarf Exoplanet Hosts GJ 832 and GJ 581 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abd62f Experimental investigation of Mach-Effect thrusters on torsion balances https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576521001119 Exoplanet Statistics and Theoretical Implications https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.02127 The Impact of Stellar Clustering on the Observed Multiplicity and Orbital Periods of Planetary Systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.01974 The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Instrument (CGI) Technology Demonstration https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.01980
March 3, 2021 updates The Future Of The Arecibo Observatory: The Next Generation Arecibo Telescope https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.01367 Implications of an improved water equation of state for water-rich planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.01410 An Earth-mass Planet in a Time of Covid-19: KMT-2020-BLG-0414Lb https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.01896
March 2, 2021 updates Atmospheric Technosignatures: Searching for Intelligent Life in Alien Skies https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e1e52526fe19076661d2a77/t/600638f0825cad7378ca8eeb/1611020536262/ Damage to Relativistic Interstellar Spacecraft by ISM Impact Gas Accumulation https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abd4ec/meta Atmospheric characterization of hot Jupiters using hierarchical models of Spitzer observations https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.00010 An ultra-short-period transiting super-Earth orbiting the M3 dwarf TOI-1685 https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.01016
March 1, 2021 updates Space Development Futures: Spacefaring Infrastructures of Indifferently Spacefaring Civilizations https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2021/02/26/space-development-futures-spacefaring-infrastructures-of-indifferently-spacefaring-civilizations/ Hyperspeed penetrator to deliver research equipment to interstellar wanderers https://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/5.0038658 Diurnal Variability and Detectability of Vegetation Red Edge of Earth-like Exoplanets https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abd6ff Finding Signs of Life in Transits: High-resolution Transmission Spectra of Earth-line Planets around FGKM Host Stars https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abe634 Concepts for future missions to search for technosignatures https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S009457652100103X TechnoClimes https://technoclimes.org/ Characteristics of aquatic biospheres on temperate planets around Sun-like stars and M-dwarfs https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14387
February 26, 2021 updates The Zoologist’s Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal About Aliens–and Ourselves https://www.amazon.com/Zoologists-Guide-Galaxy-Aliens-Ourselves/dp/1984881965 Constraints on Sub-Neptune Planet Candidate KOI-972.01 via Joint Variability/Gravity-darkening Analysis https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/abdb2e
February 25, 2021 updates Finding Signs of Life in Transit: High-resolution Transmission Spectra of Earth-like Planets around FGKM Host Stars https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.12011 On the stellar clustering and architecture of planetary systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.12346 The Chemical link between stars and their rocky planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.12444
February 24, 2021 updates OGLE-2018-BLG-1428Lb: a Jupiter-mass planet beyond the snow line of a dwarf star https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.11463 Mass and density of the transiting hot and rocky super-Earth LHS 1478 b (TOI-1640 b) https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.11640 Oxygen as a control over 2.4 billion years of Earth’s atmospheric evolution https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.11675 Cloud property trends in hot and ultra-hot giant gas planets (WASP-43b, WASP-103b, WASP-121b, HAT-P-7b, and WASP-18b) https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.11688 The rotational and divergent components of atmospheric circulation on tidally locked planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.11760
February 23, 2021 updates Are There Transit Timing Variations for the Exoplanet Qatar-1b? https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abd4d8 The TESS–Keck Survey. IV. A Retrograde, Polar Orbit for the Ultra-low-density, Hot Super-Neptune WASP-107b https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abd177 A Multiwavelength Look at the GJ 9827 System: No Evidence of Extended Atmospheres in GJ 9827b and d from HST and CARMENES Data https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abdb2f Photochemical modelling of atmospheric oxygen levels confirms two stable states https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X21000777 Effects of the IMF direction on atmospheric escape from a Mars‐like planet under weak intrinsic magnetic field conditions https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020JA028485 Automated identification of transiting exoplanet candidates in NASA Transiting Exoplanets Survey Satellite (TESS) data with machine learning methods https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.10326
February 22, 2021 updates On Opening the Gate to the Stars and the Drake Equation https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation.aspx?paperid=106947 Evolution of Earth-like extended exospheres orbiting solar-like stars https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab492/6146082 Which Jurisdiction for Private In-space Assembled Autonomous Platforms? https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0265964621000059 The Physics of Falling Raindrops in Diverse Planetary Atmospheres https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.09570
February 19, 2021 updates Breaking the warp barrier: Hyper-fast solitons in Einstein-Maxwell-plasma theory https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6382/abe692 Revealing peculiar exoplanetary shadows from transit light curves https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2021/02/aa39050-20/aa39050-20.html Semianalytical model for planetary resonances – Application to planets around single and binary stars https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2021/02/aa39764-20/aa39764-20.html ESPRESSO high-resolution transmission spectroscopy of WASP-76 b https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2021/02/aa39511-20/aa39511-20.html The GAPS Programme at TNG – XXIX. No detection of reflected light from 51 Peg b using optical high-resolution spectroscopy https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2021/02/aa39271-20/aa39271-20.html Target Prioritization and Observing Strategies for the NEID Earth Twin Survey https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abd79e A Near-Infrared Chemical Inventory of the Atmosphere of 55 Cancri e https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.08965 K2-138 g: Spitzer Spots a Sixth Planet for the Citizen Science System https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.08978 Planets Across Space and Time (PAST). I. Characterizing the Memberships of Galactic Components and Stellar Ages: Revisiting the Kinematic Methods and Applying to Planet Host Stars https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.09424 A super-Earth on a close-in orbit around the M1V star GJ 740. A HADES and CARMENES collaboration https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.09441
February 18, 2021 updates A Simplified Photodynamical Model for Planetary Mass Determination in Low-eccentricity Multitransiting Systems https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abc87a Survival of desert algae Chlorella exposed to Mars-like near space environment https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S221455242100016X Metastable Helium Reveals an Extended Atmosphere for the Gas Giant HAT-P-18b https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.08392 On the Capture of Interstellar Objects by our Solar System https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.08488 Can planets be pushed into a disc inner cavity by a resonant chain? https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.08612 Higher Compact Multiple Occurrence Around Metal-Poor M-Dwarfs and Late K-Dwarfs https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.08839 HD 76920b pinned down: a detailed analysis of the most eccentric planetary system around an evolved star https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.08902
February 17, 2021 updates A Readily Implemented Atmosphere Sustainability Constraint for Terrestrial Exoplanets Orbiting Magnetically Active Stars https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.07837 On the Correlation between Hot Jupiters and Stellar Clustering: High-Eccentricity Migration Induced by Stellar Flybys https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.07898 On the condition for the central caustic degeneracy of the planetary microlensing https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.07950 Exoplanets Prediction in Multiplanetary Systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.08066 Characterisation of 92 Southern TESS Candidate Planet Hosts and a New Photometric [Fe/H] Relation for Cool Dwarfs https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.08133 General relativistic spin precessions and the habitability of rocky planets of fast spinning late M dwarfs https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.07815 `Oumuamua is not Artificial https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.07871
February 16, 2021 updates A convolutional neural network (CNN) based ensemble model for exoplanet detection https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12145-021-00579-5 Precise transit and radial-velocity characterization of a resonant pair: a warm Jupiter TOI-216c and eccentric warm Neptune TOI-216b https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.06754 OGLE-2018-BLG-0567Lb and OGLE-2018-BLG-0962Lb: Two Microlensing Planets through Planetary-Caustic Channel https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.07338 A backward-spinning star with two coplanar planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.07677
February 5, 2021 updates Charged dust solutions for the warp drive spacetime https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.05119 To see a World in a Shard of Ice: ‘Oumuamua as a Fragment of N2 Ice From an Exopluto https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2021/pdf/1718.pdf Mapping exomoon trajectories around Earth-like exoplanets https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab421/6134054 A survey of exoplanet phase curves with Ariel https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.06523
February 12, 2021 updates Implications of the iron oxide phase transition on the interiors of rocky exoplanets https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-020-00684-y Myocardial Disease and Long-Distance Space Travel: Solving the Radiation Problem https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcvm.2021.631985/full Steady state by recycling prevents premature collapse of protoplanetary atmospheres https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2021/02/aa40220-20/aa40220-20.html A new approach to spectroscopic phase curves – The emission spectrum of WASP-12b observed in quadrature with HST/WFC3 https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2021/02/aa38865-20/aa38865-20.html HD 219134 Revisited: Planet d Transit Upper Limit and Planet f Transit Nondetection with ASTERIA and TESS https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abcd3d Study on superconducting magnetic shield for the manned long termed space voyages https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1110982321000016 Minimal conditions for survival of technological civilizations in the face of stellar evolution https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.05703 Impact of photochemical hazes and gases on exoplanet atmospheric thermal structure https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.05763 Relative occurrence rates of terrestrial planets orbiting FGK stars https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.05808 Dynamical orbital evolution scenarios of the wide-orbit eccentric planet HR 5183b https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.06031
February 1, 2021 updates Enhancing Direct Exoplanet Spectroscopy with Apodizing and Beam Shaping Optics https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/abdace Cloud Parameterizations and their Effect on Retrievals of Exoplanet Reflection Spectroscopy https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.05305 Limits on the presence of planets in systems with debris disks: HD 92945 and HD 107146 https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.05353 HATS-34b and HATS-46b: Re-characterisation Using TESS and Gaia https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.05420
February 10, 2021 updates Imaging low-mass planets within the habitable zone of α Centauri https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-21176-6 Melting and density of MgSiO3 determined by shock compression of bridgmanite to 1254GPa https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-21170-y The curse of clouds https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.04772 Nitrogen Dioxide Pollution as a Signature of Extraterrestrial Technology https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.05027
February 9, 2021 updates On the Energetics of Large-Scale Computation using Astronomical Resources https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1GQbS34OkMF6q9r0ZyuSvB9hu4TUQL-Nc Hot Jupiters: Origins, Structure, Atmospheres https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020JE006629 Aerosols in Exoplanet Atmospheres https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.03480 The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets XLV. Two Neptune mass planets orbiting HD 13808: a study of stellar activity modelling’s impact on planet detection https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.03387 Observable Predictions from Perturber-coupled High-eccentricity Tidal Migration of Warm Jupiters https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.03427 Search for (sub)stellar companions of exoplanet hosts by exploring the second ESA-Gaia data release https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.04385
February 8, 2021 updates Interstellar comet 2I/Borisov: dust composition from multiband photometry and modelling https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/502/2/1882/6129807 Parametrizing XO-2b exoplanet https://www.researchgate.net/publication/349086388_Parametrizing_XO-2b_exoplanet Host-star and exoplanet compositions: a pilot study using a wide binary with a polluted white dwarf https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.02843 Detecting Atmospheric Molecules of Temperate Terrestrial Exoplanets using High-Resolution Spectroscopy in the Mid Infrared Domain https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.03194 3-D climate simulations for the detectability of Proxima Centauri b https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.03255
February 5, 2021 updates Could Humans Dwell beyond the Earth? Thinking with Heidegger on Space Colonization and the Topology of Technology https://academic.oup.com/isle/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/isle/isaa164/6128700 Atmosphere Escape Inferred from Modeling the Hα Transmission Spectrum of WASP-121b https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abda41 Two Massive Jupiters in Eccentric Orbits from the TESS Full Frame Images https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.02222 The Habitable-zone Planet Finder Detects a Terrestrial-mass Planet Candidate Closely Orbiting Gliese 1151: The Likely Source of Coherent Low-frequency Radio Emission from an Inactive Star https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.02233
February 4, 2021 updates Modeling Rendezvous Trajectories to Objects of Interstellar Origin https://scholarworks.calstate.edu/concern/theses/3197xr742 Android Noahs and embryo Arks: ectogenesis in global catastrophe survival and space colonization https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/abs/android-noahs-and-embryo-arks-ectogenesis-in-global-catastrophe-survival-and-space-colonization/CCF34021A78A7556FE87925AFFAFA109 Magnetic induction heating of planetary satellites: Analytical formulae and applications https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103521000543 The Demographics of Wide-Separation Planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.01715 Icy Exomoons Evidenced by Spallogenic Nuclides in Polluted White Dwarfs https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.01835 KMT-2018-BLG-1025Lb: microlensing super-Earth planet orbiting a low-mass star https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.01890 A Search for Optical Laser Emission from Proxima Centauri https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.01910
February 3, 2021 updates Genetic evolution of a multi-generational population in the context of interstellar space travels — Part I: Genetic evolution under the neutral selection hypothesis https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.01508 On a Possible Solution to the Tidal Realignment Problem for Hot Jupiters https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.01081 Confirmation of Asymmetric Iron Absorption in WASP-76b with HARPS https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.01095 Revisiting the Planet Mass and Stellar Metallicity Relation for Low-Mass Exoplanets Orbiting GKM Class Stars https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.01125 A Note on Planet Size and Cooling Rate https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.01077
February 2, 2021 updates Phase curve and variability analysis of WASP-12b using TESS photometry https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.00052 A Heavy Molecular Weight Atmosphere for the Super-Earth π Men c https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.00203 Neutral metals in the atmosphere of HD149026b https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.00211 Influence of Biomass Emissions upon Habitability, Biosignatures and Detectability in Earth-like Atmospheres https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.00220 Terrestrial Exoplanet Simulator (TES): an error optimal planetary systems integrator that permits close encounters https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.00465 Steady State by Recycling prevents Premature Collapse of Protoplanetary Atmospheres https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.00939
February 1, 2021 updates Minimum Units of Habitability and Their Abundance in the Universe https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2020.2350 KMT-2019-BLG-0371 and the Limits of Bayesian Analysis https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.12206 A sub-Neptune and a non-transiting Neptune-mass companion unveiled by ESPRESSO around the bright late-F dwarf HD 5278 (TOI-130) https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.12300 Simulation of 10830 Å absorption with a 3D hydrodynamic model reveals the solar He abundance in upper atmosphere of WASP-107b https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.12504 The Census of Exoplanets in Visual Binaries: population trends from a volume-limited Gaia DR2 and literature search https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.12667
January 29, 2021 updates Classification of orbits in three-dimensional exoplanetary systems https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2021/01/aa39690-20/aa39690-20.html Modelling the imposed magnetospheres of Mars-like exoplanets: Star-planet interactions and atmospheric losses https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab225/6122573 A Heavy Molecular Weight Atmosphere for the Super-Earth π Men c https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abd9b8 Icy Exomoons Evidenced by Spallogenic Nuclides in Polluted White Dwarfs https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abd9ba Unlocking starlight subtraction in full data rate exoplanet imaging by efficiently updating Karhunen-Loève eigenimages https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.11634 Oceanic Superrotation on Tidally Locked Planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.11784 Life in Elliptical Galaxies: Hot Spheroids, Fast Stars, Deadly Comets? https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.11833 Validation of HD 183579b using archival radial velocities: a warm-neptune orbiting a bright solar analog https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.12137
IRG announces Scholarship Program for rising college undergraduates, graduate students The non-profit Interstellar Research Group (formerly the Tennessee Valley Interstellar Workshop) is proud to present its 2021 Scholarship Program, to provide two undergraduate scholarships and one graduate-student scholarship for qualifying students. The $2,500 scholarships (including the Tim Bolgeo Memorial Scholarship), sponsored by IRG supporters Baen Books, Rob and Ruann Hampson, and Jay and Beth Roye, are merit-based, and require applicants to complete an essay with their application forms. The deadline for all applications is May 15, 2021. Applicants for the undergraduate scholarships must be high school seniors or present undergraduates in the United States and its territories who plan to pursue their first undergraduate degree in a STEM-related field at any accredited, four-year American college or university. Applicants for the graduate scholarship must be full-time college or university students majoring in a STEM-related field, and seeking a graduate degree (e.g. MS, EngD, JD, non-exclusive) from an accredited college or university in the United States. The Interstellar Research Group “was created to foster and assist the study, research and experimentation necessary to make human interstellar travel a reality, with untold benefits to life on Earth,” said IRG President Emeritus John Preston. “We can imagine no better way to demonstrate that goal than the creation of these scholarships, helping new generations of thinkers, builders and explorers to set their sights on the stars.” For more information about the new scholarships, including application guidelines, visit: https://irg.space/2021-scholarships To learn more about IRG scholarship sponsors, visit: http://www.baen.com Connect with IRG organizers and participants via social media: Web: https://irg.space/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TNValleyInterstellarWorkshop Twitter: https://twitter.com/tviwus YouTube: http://youtube.com/tviw
January 28, 2021 updates The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: Searching for Technosignatures in Observations of TESS Targets of Interest https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.11137
January 27, 2021 updates The Extended Habitable Epoch of the Universe for Liquids Other than Water https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.10341 Bioverse: a simulation framework to assess the statistical power of future biosignature surveys https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.10393 Tracking Advanced Planetary Systems (TAPAS) with HARPS-N VII. Elder suns with low-mass companions https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.10410 The Linkage between the Core Mass and the Magnetic Field of an Extrasolar Giant Planet from Future Radio Observations https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.10673 Identifying Planetary Transit Candidates in TESS Full-Frame Image Light Curves via Convolutional Neural Networks https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.10919 Development of the SPECULOOS exoplanet search project https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.10970 The best place and time to live in the Milky Way https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.13539
January 26, 2021 updates Was the Wow! Signal Due to Power Beaming Leakage? https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2021/01/22/was-the-wow-signal-due-to-power-beaming-leakage/ Analytic Estimates of the Achievable Precision on the Physical Properties of Transiting Planets Using Purely Empirical Measurements https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.09289 The TESS-Keck Survey IV: A Retrograde, Polar Orbit for the Ultra-Low-Density, Hot Super-Neptune WASP-107b https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.09371 Modelling the He I triplet absorption at 10830 Angstroms in the atmospheres of HD 189733 b and GJ 3470 b https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.09393 Jupiter as an Exoplanet: Insights from Cassini Phase Curves https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.09984 On a new formulation for energy transfer between convection and fast tides with application to giant planets and solar type stars https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.10047
January 25, 2021 updates Keeping the Dream Alive: Is Propellant-less Propulsion Possible? https://www.intechopen.com/online-first/keeping-the-dream-alive-is-propellant-less-propulsion-possible Detectability of Rocky-Vapour atmospheres on super-Earths with Ariel https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10686-020-09693-6 TOI-954 b and K2-329 b: Short-period Saturn-mass Planets that Test whether Irradiation Leads to Inflation https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abd187 A decade of radial-velocity monitoring of Vega and new limits on the presence of planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.08801 Nigraha: Machine-learning based pipeline to identify and evaluate planet candidates from TESS https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.09227 Six transiting planets and a chain of Laplace resonances in TOI-178 https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.09260
January 22, 2021 updates Autonomous Navigation of Relativistic Spacecraft in Interstellar Space https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.G005340 Tidal Dissipation in Dual-body, Highly Eccentric, and Nonsynchronously Rotating Systems: Applications to Pluto–Charon and the Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1e https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/abc0f3 H2SO4 and Organosulfur Compounds in Laboratory Analogue Aerosols of Warm High-metallicity Exoplanet Atmospheres https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/abc558 A search for a 5th planet around HR 8799 using the star-hopping RDI technique at VLT/SPHERE https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.08268 Sulfur Chemistry in the Atmospheres of Warm and Hot Jupiters https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.08327 The NASA High-Resolution Speckle Interferometric Imaging Program: Validation and Characterization of Exoplanets and Their Stellar Hosts https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.08378 A High-Contrast Search for Variability in HR 8799bc with VLT-SPHERE https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.08514 Speckle Observations of TESS Exoplanet Host Stars: Understanding the Binary Exoplanet Host Star Orbital Period Distribution https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.08671
January 21, 2021 updates Habitability: a process versus a state variable framework with observational tests and theoretical implications https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/abs/habitability-a-process-versus-a-state-variable-framework-with-observational-tests-and-theoretical-implications/25D9570A562B5AA20D54E6DD7524796E Around which stars can TESS detect Earth-like planets? The Revised TESS Habitable Zone Catalog https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.07898 Following up TESS Single Transits With Archival Photometry and Radial Velocities https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.07964 Observational constraints on the formation and evolution of Neptune-class exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.08025 Lucky planets: how circum-binary planets survive the supernova in one of the inner-binary components https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.08033 Characterisation of the hydrospheres of TRAPPIST-1 planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.08172
January 20, 2021 updates Terraforming the dwarf planet: Interconnected and growable Ceres megasatellite world https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.07487 Introduction to the Interstellar Medium https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/introduction-to-the-interstellar-medium/9811D1292C8FDC4E2D9C6F5ADE2FA306 Probing the capability of future direct imaging missions to spectrally constrain the frequency of Earth-like planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.07378 Polarization of hot Jupiter systems: a likely detection of stellar activity and a possible detection of planetary polarization https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.07411 Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE): I. Improved exoplanet detection yield estimates for a large mid-infrared space-interferometer mission https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.07500 Kepler-411 Differential Rotation from Three Transiting Planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.07692
January 19, 2021 updates LIStEN: L′ band Imaging Survey for Exoplanets in the North https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2021/01/aa39541-20/aa39541-20.html A multi-wavelength look at the GJ 9827 system — No evidence of extended atmospheres in GJ 9827 b and d from HST and CARMENES data https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.06277 Planet Occurrence Rate Correlated to Stellar Dynamical History: Evidence from Kepler Stars https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.06621 A Theoretical Framework for the Mass Distribution of Gas Giant Planets forming through the Core Accretion Paradigm https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.06714 A photospheric and chromospheric activity analysis of the quiescent retrograde-planet host ν Octantis A https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.06844 Physical Constraints on Motility with Applications to Possible Life on Mars and Enceladus https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.06876 The ExoGRAVITY project: using single mode interferometry to characterize exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.07098 Spectral signature of atmospheric winds in high resolution transit observations https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.07143
January 18, 2021 updates Feasibility assessment of deceleration technologies for interstellar probes https://www.researchgate.net/project/Feasibility-assessment-of-deceleration-technologies-for-interstellar-probes The curse of clouds https://academic.oup.com/astrogeo/article-abstract/62/1/1.36/6102751 Enhanced ion acceleration in the relativistic transparent regime due to the laser rising edge https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6587/abd4c2 Vertically resolved magma ocean–protoatmosphere evolution: H2, H2O, CO2, CH4, CO, O2, and N2 as primary absorbers https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020JE006711
January 14, 2021 updates Search for wormhole candidates in active galactic nuclei: radiation from colliding accreting flows https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.09411 Retraction Notice: Revised instellation patterns for close-in exoplanets https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/501/3/3846/6096437 A Search for Technosignatures around 31 Sun-like Stars with the Green Bank Telescope at 1.15–1.73 GHz https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abcc77 OGLE-2019-BLG-0960Lb: The Smallest Microlensing Planet https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.04696 A hot mini-Neptune in the radius valley orbiting solar analogue HD 110113 https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.04745 Exoplanet Imaging Data Challenge: benchmarking the various image processing methods for exoplanet detection https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.05080
January 13, 2021 updates Auto-correlation functions of astrophysical processes, and their relation to Gaussian processes – Application to radial velocities of different starspot configurations https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2021/01/aa39594-20/aa39594-20.html Atmospheric circulation of brown dwarfs and directly imaged exoplanets driven by cloud radiative feedback: global and equatorial dynamics https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.04417 Super-Earths, M Dwarfs, and Photosynthetic Organisms: Habitability in the Lab https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.04448 The complex interplay between tidal inertial waves and zonal flows in differentially rotating stellar and planetary convective regions I. Free waves https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.04656 The Copernican Principle Rules Out BLC1 as a Technological Radio Signal from the Alpha Centauri System https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.04118 The role of atmospheric outflows in the migration of hot Jupiters https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.04112 A Bayesian neural network predicts the dissolution of compact planetary systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.04117 Characterizing Atmospheres of Transiting Earth-like Exoplanets Orbiting M Dwarfs with James Webb Space Telescope https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.04139 NGTS-13b: A hot 4.8 Jupiter-mass planet transiting a subgiant star https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.04245
January 12, 2021 updates Heterogeneous Physical Chemistry in the Atmospheres of Earth, Mars, and Venus: Perspectives for Rocky Exoplanets https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsearthspacechem.0c00126 The Future Fusion of Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Big Histories https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14746700.2020.1869674 A Tale of Planetary Resurrection https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/a-tale-of-planetary-resurrection A survey of the linear polarization of directly imaged exoplanets and brown dwarf companions with SPHERE-IRDIS. First polarimetric detections revealing disks around DH Tau B and GSC 6214-210 B https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.04033 The atmosphere of HD 209458b seen with ESPRESSO. No detectable planetary absorptions at high resolution https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.04094 Searching for Small Circumbinary Planets I. The STANLEY Automated Algorithm and No New Planets in Existing Systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.03186 The Stars Kepler Missed: Investigating the Kepler Target Selection Function Using Gaia DR2 https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.03190 Impact of a moon on the evolution of a planet’s obliquity: a non-resonant case https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.03429
January 11, 2021 updates Intelligent messages in bacterial DNA – a sequel to SETI? http://physics.ruh.ac.lk/ab/pub/446.pdf Global Optimization Based Reference Star Differential Imaging for High-contrast Exoplanet Imaging Survey https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab022/6070633 TOI-1259Ab — a gas giant planet with 2.7% deep transits and a bound white dwarf companion https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.02707 Activity of the first interstellar comet 2I/Borisov around perihelion: Results from Indian observatories https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.02752 Atmosphere escape inferred from modelling the Hα transmission spectrum of WASP-121b https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.02905 The polarization-encoded self-coherent camera https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.02954 Inner and Outer Orbits in 13 Resolved Hierarchical Stellar Systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.02976
January 8, 2021 updates On the observed clustering of major bodies in solar and extrasolar subsystems https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.02241 Analyzing the Stability of Non-coplanar Circumbinary Planets using Machine Learning https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.02316
January 7, 2021 updates TESS Delivers Five New Hot Giant Planets Orbiting Bright Stars from the Full Frame Images https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.01726 HELIOS-K 2.0 Opacity Calculator and Open-source Opacity Database for Exoplanetary Atmospheres https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.02005 Pollux: A weak dynamo-driven dipolar magnetic field and implications for its probable planet https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.02016 BEAST begins: Sample characteristics and survey performance of the B-star Exoplanet Abundance Study https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.02043
January 6, 2021 updates Following up the Kepler field: Masses of Targets for transit timing and atmospheric characterization https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.01202 Starshade Rendezvous: Exoplanet Sensitivity and Observing Strategy https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.01272 Starshade Rendezvous: Exoplanet Orbit Constraints from Multi-Epoch Direct Imaging https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.01276 Possible Atmospheric Diversity of Low Mass Exoplanets, some Central Aspects https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.01277 NGTS-14Ab: a Neptune-sized transiting planet in the desert https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.01470 Masses and compositions of three small planets orbiting the nearby M dwarf L231-32 (TOI-270) and the M dwarf radius valley https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.01593
January 5, 2021 updates The Biological Study of Lifeless Worlds and Environments https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2020.2337 Challenges & Strategies for Supporting a Very Long Duration Mission https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2021-0483 Interstellar Probe – Goals and Challenges https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2021-0485 Needed Evolution in Part Reliability Approaches: from Voyager to Interstellar Probe https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2021-0486 An Optimal Navigation Filter for Relativistic Spacecraft https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2021-1868 Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth https://www.amazon.com/Extraterrestrial-First-Intelligent-Beyond-Earth/dp/0358278147/ Metastable Helium Absorptions with 3D Hydrodynamics and Self-Consistent Photochemistry I: WASP-69b, Dimensionality, XUV Flux Level, Spectral Types, and Flares https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.00042 Metastable Helium Absorptions with 3D Hydrodynamics and Self-Consistent Photochemistry II: WASP-107b, Stellar Wind, Radiation Pressure, and Shear Instability https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.00045 The Hubble WFC3 Emission Spectrum of the Extremely-Hot Jupiter, KELT-9b https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.00469 Polarized radiation and the Emergence of Biological Homochirality on Earth and Beyond https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.00530 CHEOPS observations of the HD\,108236 planetary system: A fifth planet, improved ephemerides, and planetary radii https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.00663
January 1, 2021 updates A Titan mission using the Direct Fusion Drive https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576520307475 Climate Diversity in the Solar-Like Habitable Zone due to Varying Background Gas Pressure https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.02355
December 31, 2020 updates Guide star catalog generation of star sensors for interstellar navigation https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/Journal-of-Astronomical-Telescopes-Instruments-and-Systems/volume-6/issue-4/044006/Guide-star-catalog-generation-of-star-sensors-for-interstellar-navigation/10.1117/1.JATIS.6.4.044006.short The Self Indication Assumption for the Assessment of the Earliest Window and the Nearest Extraterrestrial Civilization and Overall landscape Analysis for All Possible Detection Scenarios https://www.researchgate.net/publication/346959872_The_Self_Indication_Assumption_for_the_Assessment_of_the_Earliest_Window_and_the_Nearest_Extraterrestrial_Civilization_and_Overall_landscape_Analysis_for_All_Possible_Detection_Scenarios Physical Parameters of the Multiplanet Systems HD 106315 and GJ 9827 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abca39
December 30, 2020 updates Migration of Hot Jupiters Induced by Atmosphere Outflow https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063772920120069 Origin of Life https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9780470015902.a0029235
December 29, 2020 updates TOI-257b (HD 19916b): A Warm sub-Saturn Orbiting an Evolved F-type Star https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa3960/6054535 Host star metallicity of directly imaged wide-orbit planets: implications for planet formation https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.13694 Contrast and Temperature Dependence of Multi-Epoch High-Resolution Cross-Correlation Exoplanet Spectroscopy https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.14068 Model Optimization for Deep Space Exploration via Simulators and Deep Learning https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.14092 Are extrasolar Einstein’s spinning tops habitable? https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.14245
December 25, 2020 updates High burial efficiency is required to explain mass balance in Earth’s early carbon cycle https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020GB006707 Finding exoplanets in the habitable zone with light echoes https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/11448/2559345/Finding-exoplanets-in-the-habitable-zone-with-light-echoes/10.1117/12.2559345.short Close stellar encounters kicking planets out of habitable zone in various stellar environments https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.10595 Rendezvous Mission for Interstellar Objects Using a Solar Sail-based Statite Concept https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.12935 Three-dimensional continuum radiative transfer of polarized radiation in exoplanetary atmospheres https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.12992
December 24, 2020 updates Photonic Laser Thruster: 100 Times Scaling-Up and Propulsion Demonstration https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/1.B38144 Exotic Fluids Matching the Stress-Energy Tensor of Alcubierre Warp Drive Spacetimes https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.09941 Semi-analytical model for planetary resonances: application to planets around single and binary stars https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.12296 The Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer: Phase I fiber injection unit early performance and commissioning https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.12318
December 23, 2020 updates Hot Jupiter and Ultra-cold Saturn Formation in Dense Star Clusters https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abc619 Exoplanet imaging data challenge: benchmarking the various image processing methods for exoplanet detection https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/11448/2574803/Exoplanet-imaging-data-challenge–benchmarking-the-various-image-processing/10.1117/12.2574803.short Performance study of interferometric small-sats to detect exoplanets: updated exoplanet yield and application to nearby exoplanets https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/11446/2562119/Performance-study-of-interferometric-small-sats-to-detect-exoplanets/10.1117/12.2562119.short The Fundamental Connections Between the Solar System and Exoplanetary Science https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.11628 Magnetospheres of Terrestrial Exoplanets and Exomoons: Implications for Habitability and Detection https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.11694 Semi-Empirical Modeling of the Atmospheres of the M Dwarf Exoplanet Hosts GJ 832 and GJ 581 https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.11738 MOVES IV. Modelling the influence of stellar XUV-flux, cosmic rays, and stellar energetic particles on the atmospheric composition of the hot Jupiter HD 189733b https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.12132
December 22, 2020 updates Models of Disability as Models of First Contact https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/11/12/676 Navigation Using Pulsars and Other Variable Celestial Sources https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781119458555.ch52 Persistence of flare-driven atmospheric chemistry on rocky habitable zone worlds https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-01264-1 Determining the true mass of radial-velocity exoplanets with Gaia – Nine planet candidates in the brown dwarf or stellar regime and 27 confirmed planets https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2021/01/aa39168-20/aa39168-20.html Earth as a Proxy Exoplanet: Deconstructing and Reconstructing Spectrophotometric Light Curves https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.10556 Hydrodynamic Escape of Mineral Atmosphere from Hot Rocky Exoplanet. I. Model Description https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.10605 TESS Asteroseismology of α Mensae: Benchmark Ages for a G7 Dwarf and its M-dwarf Companion https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.10797 ogle-2017-blg-1049: another giant planet microlensing event https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.11080 Detectability of biosignatures on LHS 1140 b https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.11426
December 21, 2020 updates Planetary Diversity: Rocky planet processes and their observational signatures https://iopscience.iop.org/book/978-0-7503-2140-2 Warp Drive and the Kardashev Scale: Our Competence of Travelling Faster than Light https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344848513_Warp_Drive_and_the_Kardashev_Scale_Our_Competence_of_Travelling_Faster_than_Light When Is Life a Viable Hypothesis? The Case of Venusian Phosphine https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2020.2390 Breakthrough Propulsion Study — Assessing Interstellar Challenges and Prospects https://jbis.org.uk/paper/2020.73.427 Technological Challenges in Low-Mass Interstellar Probe Communication https://jbis.org.uk/paper/2020.73.438 Survivability of Metallic Shields for Relativistic Spacecraft https://jbis.org.uk/paper/2020.73.446 Interstellar Material within the Solar System https://jbis.org.uk/paper/2020.73.457 Ephemeris Refinement of the Exoplanet Candidate around the White Dwarf WD1856+534 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/abd480 Keys of a Mission to Uranus or Neptune, the Closest Ice Giants https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.09863 The GAPS Programme at TNG. XXX. No detection of reflected light from 51~Peg~b using optical high-resolution spectroscopy https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.10435
December 18, 2020 updates Understanding the Impacts of Stellar Companions on Planet Formation and Evolution: A Survey of Stellar and Planetary Companions within 25 pc https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.09190 The Influence of Age on the Relative Frequency of Super-Earths and Sub-Neptunes https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.09239 On the Scaling and Spacing of Extra-Solar Multi-Planet Systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.09431 The Tierras Observatory: An ultra-precise photometer to characterize nearby terrestrial exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.09744
December 17, 2020 updates JPL Work on a Gravitational Lensing Mission https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2020/12/16/jpl-work-on-a-gravitational-lensing-mission/ Solid tidal friction in multi-layer planets: Application to Earth, Venus, a Super Earth and the TRAPPIST-1 planets – Potential approximation of a multi-layer planet as a homogeneous body https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/12/aa38204-20/aa38204-20.html The Planet as Exoplanet Analog Spectrograph (PEAS): Design and First-Light https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.08675 Revisiting KELT-19Ab, WASP-156b and WASP-121b in the TESS Era https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.08744 Non-Sinusoidal Transit Timing Variations for the Exoplanet HAT-P-12b https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.08820 Update on the Preliminary Design of SCALES: the Santa Cruz Array of Lenslets for Exoplanet Spectroscopy https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.09098
December 16, 2020 updates K2 Targets Observed in TESS Cycles 1–3 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/abd39e A Statistical Estimation of the Occurrence of Extraterrestrial Intelligence in the Milky Way Galaxy https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.07902 The search for radio emission from the exoplanetary systems 55 Cancri, υ Andromedae, and τ Boötis using LOFAR beam-formed observations https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.07926 A Guide to Realistic Uncertainties on Fundamental Properties of Solar-Type Exoplanet Host Stars https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.07957 Effects of Spin-Orbit Resonances and Tidal Heating on the Inner Edge of the Habitable Zone https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.07996 RISTRETTO: a pathfinder instrument for exoplanet atmosphere characterization https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.08182 Are There Transit Timing Variations for the Exoplanet Qatar-1b ? https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.08184 Estimating low-order aberrations through a Lyot coronagraph with a Zernike wavefront sensor for exoplanet imaging https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.08423 The TESS-Keck Survey II: An Ultra-Short Period Rocky Planet and its Siblings Transiting the Galactic Thick-Disk Star TOI-561 https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.03071
December 15, 2020 updates Gravitational Lensing and Optical Geometry: A Centennial Perspective https://www.mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/3200 Bridge To The Stars: A Mission Concept And Policy To Enable An Inner Solar System Encounter With An Interstellar Object https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020EPSC…14..575L/abstract Radio observations of HD 80606 near planetary periastron – II. LOFAR low band antenna observations at 30–78 MHz https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/12/aa38746-20/aa38746-20.html Formation of Ultra-short-period Planets by Obliquity-driven Tidal Runaway https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abc4e5 Lava Worlds: From Early Earth to Exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.07337 Exoplanets through extreme optics: from PLATO to SHARK-NIR https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.06672 DiskFM: A Forward Modeling Tool for Disk Analysis with Coronagraphic Instruments https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.06790 Optimizing MARVEL for the radial velocity follow-up of TESS and PLATO transiting exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.07137 ExoClock Project: An open platform for monitoring the ephemerides of Ariel targets with contributions from the public https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.07478 Experimental analysis of the achromatic performance of a vector vortex coronagraph https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.07728 [attach 1]
December 14, 2020 updates Anomalous Sun Flyby of 1I/2017 U1 (`Oumuamua) https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4434/8/4/83 On the scaling and spacing of extra-solar multi-planet systems https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10509-020-03899-y Hibernating lemurs may be the key to cryogenic sleep for human space travel https://theconversation.com/hibernating-lemurs-may-be-the-key-to-cryogenic-sleep-for-human-space-travel-148408 Bridge to the stars: A mission concept to an interstellar object https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0032063320303500 Stellar Winds Drive Strong Variations in Exoplanet Evaporative Outflows and Transit Absorption Signatures https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.05922 Internal Water Storage Capacity of terrestrial Planets and the Effect of Hydration on the M-R Relation https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.06455
December 11, 2020 updates The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs – LP 714-47 b (TOI 442.01): populating the Neptune desert https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/12/aa38016-20/aa38016-20.html Detection of pre-industrial societies on exoplanets https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/abs/detection-of-preindustrial-societies-on-exoplanets/2F1C14870F756707F4808D2045AAA80C Speckle Imaging Characterization of Radial Velocity Exoplanet Systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.05253 Magnetic field and chromospheric activity evolution of HD75332: a rapid magnetic cycle in an F star without a hot Jupiter https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.05407 Combining Transit and RV: A Synthesized Population Model https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.05423 Image recovery with the solar gravitational lens https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.05477 Three-body capture, ejection, and the demographics of bound objects in binary systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.05875
December 10, 2020 updates Philosophical Thoughts on the Issue of a Potential Future Contact with an Extraterrestrial Civilization https://www.academia.edu/35988452/PHILOSOPHICAL_THOUGHTS_ON_THE_ISSUE_OF_A_POTENTIAL_FUTURE_CONTACT_WITH_AN_EXTRATERRESTRIAL_CIVILIZATION Giant Outer Transiting Exoplanet Mass (GOT ‘EM) Survey. I. Confirmation of an Eccentric, Cool Jupiter With an Interior Earth-sized Planet Orbiting Kepler-1514 https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.04676 Spectroscopic fourth-order coronagraph for the characterization of terrestrial planets at small angular separations from host stars https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.04779 Revisiting the HD 21749 Planetary System with Stellar Activity Modeling https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.04873 Improving the RSM map exoplanet detection algorithm: PSF forward modelling and optimal selection of PSF subtraction techniques https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.05094
December 9, 2020 updates Solar Gravitational Lens (SGL) for Biosignatures, SETI, and Interstellar Telecommunications https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/play/Dz8IKzYNKrRMnO_WztA6eXetafaiGUhcYQnjw95uI5Gebl3S8kdeNzvXD4NDh5vwXH-8_mWYfOQtdFcF.7lemH6kqbXMgtx0C A Flare-type IV Burst Event from Proxima Centauri and Implications for Space Weather https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abca90 ARES IV: Probing the Atmospheres of the Two Warm Small Planets HD 106315c and HD 3167c with the HST/WFC3 Camera https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abc3c8 Characterization of a multi-etalon array for ultra-high resolution spectroscopy https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.04007 Detecting and characterizing close-in exoplanets with Vortex Fiber Nulling https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.04239 Planet cartography with neural learned regularization https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.04460
December 8, 2020 updates Slow Biospheres: Habitability over the Longue Durée https://youtu.be/C2cyeGIJTnw Using Earth’s history to inform the search for life on exoplanets https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2020/12/08/using-earths-history-inform-search-life-exoplanets Architectures of Exoplanetary Systems. II. An Increase in Inner Planetary System Occurrence toward Later Spectral Types for Kepler’s FGK Dwarfs https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abc68b An Integrated Analysis with Predictions on the Architecture of the τ Ceti Planetary System, Including a Habitable Zone Planet https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abc560 A medium-resolution spectrum of the exoplanet HIP 65426 b https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.02798 Formation of multiple-planet systems in resonant chains around M dwarfs https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.03469 Parking planets in circumbinary discs https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.03651
December 7, 2020 updates Distinguishing Between Biological and Machine Civilization Techno-signatures https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2020/12/04/distinguishing-between-biological-and-machine-civilization-techno-signatures/ Space, the Final Frontier: In the Scientific Pursuit of Extraterrestrial Life Away from Earth https://www.academia.edu/42678316/Space_the_Final_Frontier_In_the_Scientific_Pursuit_of_Extraterrestrial_Life_Away_from_Earth Extremophiles as Astrobiological Models https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119593096 No escaping helium from 55 Cnc e https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.02198 Decaying Orbit of the Hot Jupiter WASP-12b: Confirmation with TESS Observations https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.02211 A Distinct Population of Small Planets: Sub-Earths https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.02273 A Newtonian model for the WASP-148 exoplanetary system enhanced with TESS and ground-based photometric observations https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.02602
December 4, 2020 updates Searching for Possible Exoplanet Transits from BRITE Data through a Machine Learning Technique https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/abbb24 A Word of Caution About Exoplanet Archival Data https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/abcf4d Refined System Ephemeris for Four Transiting Hot Jupiters using Ground-Based and TESS Observations https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.01486 Overview and Reassessment of Noise Budget of Starshade Exoplanet Imaging https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.01609 Monitoring the radio emission of Proxima Centauri https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.02116
December 3, 2020 updates Evidence for post-nebula volatilisation in an exo-planetary body https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0012821X20306385 The Chemistry of Extrasolar Planets https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B978008102908400151X The Exoplanet Transmission Spectroscopy Imager (ETSI) https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.00795 The Exomoon Corridor: Half of all exomoons exhibit TTV frequencies within a narrow window due to aliasing https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.00764 Hot Stars With Kepler Planets Have High Obliquities https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.00776 TARdYS: Design and Prototype of an Exoplanet Hunter for TAO using a R6 Echelle Grating https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.00809 Carbonate-Silicate Cycle Predictions of Earth-like Planetary Climates and Testing the Habitable Zone Concept https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.00819
December 2, 2020 updates High-Resolution Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy of GV Tau N: Surface Accretion and Detection of Ammonia in a Young Protoplanetary Disk https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.00016 Phase Modeling of the TRAPPIST-1 Planetary Atmospheres https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.00080 Prospects for Galactic and stellar astrophysics with asteroseismology of giant stars in the TESS Continuous Viewing Zones and beyond https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.00140 Ghosts of NEID’s Past https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.00182
December 1, 2020 updates Strategies for the Detection of ET Probes Within Our Own Solar System https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.12446 Broadband transmission spectroscopy of HD 209458b with ESPRESSO: evidence for Na, TiO, or both https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/12/aa39454-20/aa39454-20.html Exoplanet Detection using Machine Learning https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.14135 Characterization of M dwarfs Using Optical Mid-Resolution Spectra for Exploration of Small Exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.14521 Interstellar Objects Outnumber Solar System Objects in the Oort Cloud https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.14900 Phase Shift of Planetary Waves and Wave–Jet Resonance on Tidally Locked Planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.14553 Natural radioactive environments as sources of local disequilibrium for the emergence of life https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.14839 Exomoon Candidates from Transit Timing Variations: Eight Kepler systems with TTVs explainable by photometrically unseen exomoons https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.12997 Planet Hunters TESS II: Findings from the first two years of TESS https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.13944 3D simulations of photochemical hazes in the atmosphere of hot Jupiter HD 189733b https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.14022 Demography of galactic technosignatures https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.14147
November 30, 2020 updates Presumptuous Philosopher Proves Panspermia https://philarchive.org/archive/TURPPP-8 OWL-Moon in 2050 and beyond https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsta.2020.0187 Enshrouding & Star-planet Interactions in Close-orbiting Systems http://oro.open.ac.uk/73559/1/JDoherty_PhD-thesis_9-10-20.pdf Observational constraints on the likelihood of 26Al in planet-forming environments https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/12/aa39334-20/aa39334-20.html Project lyra: Catching 1I/‘Oumuamua–using Nuclear Thermal Rockets https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576520307141 On the Estimation of Circumbinary Orbital Properties https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.13376 WASP-107b’s density is even lower: a case study for the physics of planetary gas envelope accretion and orbital migration https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.13444 Non-tidal Coupling of the Orbital and Rotational Motions of Extended Bodies https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.13053
November 27, 2020 updates Observability of ultraviolet Ni lines in the atmosphere of transiting Earth‐like planets https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.202013842 HIRES, the high-resolution spectrograph for the ELT https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.12317
November 26, 2020 updates Ariel – a window to the origin of life on early earth? https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10686-020-09681-w A Search for Polarized Thermal Emission from Directly Imaged Exoplanets and Brown Dwarf Companions to Nearby Stars https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abc33d Critical review of chirality indicators of extraterrestrial life https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1387647320300725 TRAP: A temporal systematics model for improved direct detection of exoplanets at small angular separations https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.12311 XAO-assisted coronagraphy with SHARK NIR: from simulations to laboratory tests https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.12899 Unusual chemistry of the C-H-N-O system under pressure and implications for giant planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.12803
November 25, 2020 updates Geoforming Mars https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-58876-2 Bridging the Planet Radius Valley: Stellar Clustering as a Key Driver for Turning Sub-Neptunes into Super-Earths https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.11680 Ultra Short Period Planets in K2 III: Neighbors are Common with 12 New Multi-Planet Systems and 26 Newly Validated Planets in Campaigns 0-8, 10 https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.11698 The Origin of Chiral Life https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.12145 ESPRESSO high resolution transmission spectroscopy of WASP-76b https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.12197
November 24, 2020 updates Here’s Looking at You, MKID https://www.news.ucsb.edu/2020/020103/here-s-looking-you-mkid Precise radial velocities of giant stars – XIV. Evidence of planetary companions around HD 25723, 17 Sco, 3 Cnc, and 44 UMa https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/12/aa38285-20/aa38285-20.html Europium as a lodestar: diagnosis of radiogenic heat production in terrestrial exoplanets – Spectroscopic determination of Eu abundances in α Centauri AB https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/12/aa38386-20/aa38386-20.html Architectures of Exoplanetary Systems. III. Eccentricity and Mutual Inclination Distributions of AMD-stable Planetary Systems https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abba18 An Unusual Transmission Spectrum for the Sub-Saturn KELT-11b Suggestive of a Subsolar Water Abundance https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abc1e9 Is TiO emission present in the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-33b? A reassessment using the improved ExoMol Toto line list https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.10587 Refined Telluric Absorption Correction for Low-Resolution Ground-Based Spectroscopy: Resolution and Radial Velocity Effects in the O2 A-Band for Exoplanets and K I Emission Lines https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.10845 Application of the mixing length theory to assess the generation of melt in internally heated systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.11172 Peeking inside the Black Box: Interpreting Deep Learning Models for Exoplanet Atmospheric Retrievals https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.11284 TOI-519 b: a short-period substellar object around an M dwarf validated using multicolour photometry and phase curve analysis https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.11458 Formation and dynamics of water clouds on temperate sub-Neptunes: the example of K2-18b https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.11553 The Magellan-TESS Survey I: Survey Description and Mid-Survey Results https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.11560
November 23, 2020 updates The Timing of Evolutionary Transitions Suggests Intelligent Life Is Rare https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2019.2149 Spectropolarimetry of Primitive Phototrophs as Global Surface Biosignatures https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2020.2272 Gaia search for stellar companions of TESS Objects of Interest https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.202013825 Correcting the effect of stellar spots on ARIEL transmission spectra https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.10085 Methane as a dominant absorber in the habitable-zone sub-Neptune K2-18 b https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.10424 Orbital evolution of potentially habitable planets of tidally interacting binary stars https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.10430 1D atmospheric study of the temperate sub-Neptune K2-18b https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.10459 Evidence for chromium hydride in the atmosphere of Hot Jupiter WASP-31b https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.10558 Vetting of 384 TESS Objects of Interest with TRICERATOPS and Statistical Validation of 12 Planet Candidates https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.00691
November 20, 2020 updates Near-infrared Opacity of Late M Dwarfs and Hot Jupiters: The E 3Π–X 3Δ Transition of TiO https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abc24c JWST Transit Spectra. II. Constraining Aerosol Species, Particle-size Distributions, Temperature, and Metallicity for Cloudy Exoplanets https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abbc6c A Closer Look at Exoplanet Occurrence Rates: Considering the Multiplicity of Stars Without Detected Planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.09564
November 19, 2020 updates Kozai Migration Naturally Explains the White Dwarf Planet WD1856 b https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abc564 Survivor Bias: Divergent Fates of the Solar System’s Ejected versus Persisting Planetesimals https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abc55f A collage of small planets from the Lick Carnegie Exoplanet Survey : Exploring the super-Earth and sub-Neptune mass regime https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.08867 The Probability that a Rocky Planet’s Composition Reflects its Host Star https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.08893 Eccentricity Driven Climate Effects in the Kepler-1649 System https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.09074 Brightness modulations of our nearest terrestrial planet Venus reveal atmospheric super-rotation rather than surface features https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.09271
November 18, 2020 updates Oort cloud Ecology II: Extra-solar Oort clouds and the origin of asteroidal interlopers https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.08257 Influence of a Galactic Gamma-Ray Burst on Ocean Plankton https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.08433 Kepler-90: Giant transit-timing variations reveal a super-puff https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.08515 Hubble WFC3 Spectroscopy of the Habitable-zone Super-Earth LHS 1140 b https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.08815
November 17, 2020 updates Generation of Unbound Comets and Planets by Planetary Systems https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063772920110098 Finding Signs of Life on Transiting Earthlike Planets: High-resolution Transmission Spectra of Earth through Time around FGKM Host Stars https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abb9b2 Direct imaging of sub-Jupiter mass exoplanets with James Webb Space Telescope coronagraphy https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.07075 Multi-color photometry and parameters estimation of Jupiter-sized exoplanets; TRES-3b, WASP-2b and HATP-30b https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.07169 Detection of the hydrogen Balmer lines in the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-33b https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.07888
November 16, 2020 updates In search of radio emission from exoplanets: GMRT observations of the binary system HD~41004 https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.06843
November 13, 2020 updates Ariel moves from blueprint to reality https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Ariel_moves_from_blueprint_to_reality A data-driven approach to constraining the atmospheric temperature structure of the ultra-hot Jupiter KELT-9b https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/11/aa39061-20/aa39061-20.html A Mini-Neptune and a Radius Valley Planet Orbiting the Nearby M2 Dwarf TOI-1266 in Its Venus Zone: Validation with the Habitable-zone Planet Finder https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abbe19 An enhanced slope in the transmission spectrum of the hot Jupiter WASP-104b https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.06329 Evidence of a Clear Atmosphere for WASP-62b: the Only Known Transiting Gas Giant in the JWST Continuous Viewing Zone https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.06424 An approximation to determine the source of the WOW! Signal https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.06090
November 12, 2020 updates Observability of ultraviolet N I lines in the atmosphere of transiting Earth-like planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.05613 Resolving period aliases for TESS monotransits recovered during the extended mission https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.05832
November 11, 2020 updates Nondetection of Helium in the Upper Atmospheres of Three Sub-Neptune Exoplanets https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abbee6 The Demographics of Exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.04703 A Search for Technosignatures Around 31 Sun-like Stars with the Green Bank Telescope at 1.15-1.73 GHz https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.05265
November 10, 2020 updates First, Do Nothing: A Passive Protocol for First Contact https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S026596462030031X NASA Selects New Science Teams for Astrobiology Research https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-selects-new-science-teams-for-astrobiology-research Interdisciplinary Consortia for Astrobiology Research https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/research/astrobiology-at-nasa/icar/ Radiogenic Heating and Its Influence on Rocky Planet Dynamos and Habitability https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abc251 Life’s irreducible structure: Where are we, five decades later? https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bies.202000250 The Effect of Land Albedo on the Climate of Land-Dominated Planets in the TRAPPIST-1 System https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.03621 Broadband transmission spectroscopy of HD209458b with ESPRESSO: Evidence for Na, TiO, or both https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.03746 Identifying Bound Stellar Companions to Kepler Exoplanet Host Stars Using Speckle Imaging https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.03903 A Simplified Photodynamical Model for Planetary Mass Determination in Low-Eccentricity Multi-Transiting Systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.04404 Optical Verification Experiments of Sub-scale Starshades https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.04432
November 9, 2020 updates Predicting missing planets in multiplanet system populations via analytical assessments of dynamical packing https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.03053 ARES IV: Probing the atmospheres of the two warm small planets HD 106315 c and HD 3167 c with the HST/WFC3 camera https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.03221 Clouds in Exoplanetary Atmospheres https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.03302 Transmission spectroscopy for the warm sub-Neptune HD3167c: evidence for molecular absorption and a possible high metallicity atmosphere https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.03470
November 6, 2020 updates Earth as an Exoplanet. I. Time Variable Thermal Emission Using Spatially Resolved Moderate Imaging Spectroradiometer Data https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abbc15
November 5, 2020 updates PyLightcurve-torch: a transit modelling package for deep learning applications in PyTorch https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.02030 SPECULOOS — Ultracool Dwarf Transit Survey: Target List and Strategy https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.02069 Activity time series of old stars from late F to early K. V. Effect on exoplanet detectability with high-precision astrometry https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.02158 Generalized Stoichiometry and Biogeochemistry for Astrobiological Applications https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.02425
November 4, 2020 updates From Earth-Orbit Space Colonies to Deep-Space and Interstellar Habitats and Worldships: Solving the Economics https://jbis.org.uk/paper/2020.73.382 Effect of mantle oxidation state and escape upon the evolution of Earth’s magma ocean atmosphere https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/11/aa38779-20/aa38779-20.html A Fast, Two-dimensional Gaussian Process Method Based on Celerite: Applications to Transiting Exoplanet Discovery and Characterization https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abbc16 Atmospheric Rossiter-McLaughlin effect and transmission spectroscopy of WASP-121b with ESPRESSO https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.01245 The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs — LP 714-47b (TOI 442.01): Populating the Neptune desert https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.01716
November 3, 2020 updates The widest broadband transmission spectrum (0.38–1.71 μm) of HD 189733b from ground-based chromatic Rossiter–McLaughlin observations https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/11/aa39213-20/aa39213-20.html The eccentricity distribution of giant planets and their relation to super-Earths in the pebble accretion scenario https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/11/aa38856-20/aa38856-20.html Reflected Light Observations of the Galilean Satellites from Cassini: A Test Bed for Cold Terrestrial Exoplanets https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abb8df Dynamical Mass Estimates of the β Pictoris Planetary System through Gaussian Process Stellar Activity Modeling https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abba30 Identifying Exoplanets with Deep Learning. IV. Removing Stellar Activity Signals from Radial Velocity Measurements Using Neural Networks https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.00003 Separating planetary reflex Doppler shifts from stellar variability in the wavelength domain https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.00018 The Three Dimensional Flow Field Around Planets on Eccentric Orbits https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.00022 A new perspective on interiors of ice-rich planets: Ice-rock mixture rather than a layered structure https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.00602 Evaluating the Effect of Four Unknown Parameters Included in a Latitudinal Energy Balance Model on the Habitability of Exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.06907
November 2, 2020 updates Curvature Invariants for the Alcubierre and Natário Warp Drives https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.13693 Space travel by reduced effective mass after induced matter theory https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2020-4171 Design Reference Mission Development for Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Enabled Science Missions https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2020-4126 Laser Fusion Propulsion using Extreme CPA-Laser Pulses for Boron Fusion https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2020-4081 A Future for Leptonic Fuels https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2020-4204 The Pulsed Fission-Fusion (PuFF) Engine – Nacelle Concept and Development Roadmap https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2020-4082 In-Space Fabrication and Growth of Affordable Large Interior Rotating Habitats https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2020-4193 The Concept of Developmental Relativity: Thoughts on the Technological Synchrony of Interstellar Civilizations https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0265964620300333 Thresholds in origin of life scenarios https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004220309536 Evolutionary History of Bioessential Elements Can Guide the Search for Life in the Universe https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cbic.202000500 TOI 122b and TOI 237b, two small warm planets orbiting inactive M dwarfs, found by \textit{TESS} https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.15905 Lessons Learned from the 1st ARIEL Machine Learning Challenge: Correcting Transiting Exoplanet Light Curves for Stellar Spots https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.15996 HAT-P-68b: A Transiting Hot Jupiter Around a K5 Dwarf Star https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.16026
October 30, 2020 updates Atmospheric Nitrogen When Life Evolved on Earth https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2019.2212 WASP-127b: A misaligned planet with a partly cloudy atmosphere and tenuous sodium signature seen by ESPRESSO https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.15143 Temperature inversions on hot super-Earths: the case of CN in nitrogen-rich atmospheres https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.15152 Science Extraction from TESS Observations of Known Exoplanet Hosts https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.15164 Survivor bias: divergent fates of the Solar System’s ejected vs. persisting planetesimals https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.15147 WASP-186 and WASP-187: two hot Jupiters discovered by SuperWASP and SOPHIE with additional observations by TESS https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.15205 Effects of capturing a wide-orbit planet on planetary systems: system stability and Habitable Zone bombardment rates https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.15448
October 29, 2020 updates Hurricanes on tidally locked terrestrial planets: fixed surface temperature experiments https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/11/aa38203-20/aa38203-20.html An Integrated Analysis with Predictions on the Architecture of the tau Ceti Planetary System, Including a Habitable Zone Planet https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.14675 EXPRES. II. Searching for Planets Around Active Stars: A Case Study of HD 101501 https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.14717 The Occurrence of Rocky Habitable Zone Planets Around Solar-Like Stars from Kepler Data https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.14812 HADES RV Programme with HARPS-N at TNG XII. The abundance signature of M dwarf stars with planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.14867 Tidally induced stellar oscillations: converting modelled oscillations excited by hot Jupiters into observables https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.15053 Hydrogen dominated atmospheres on terrestrial mass planets: evidence, origin and evolution https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.15091 Effects of the stellar wind on the Ly-alpha transit of close-in planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.15094
October 28, 2020 updates Transmission spectroscopy and Rossiter-McLaughlin measurements of the young Neptune orbiting AU Mic https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/11/aa38583-20/aa38583-20.html Excalibur: A Non-Parametric, Hierarchical Wavelength-Calibration Method for a Precision Spectrograph https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.13786 Modelling the atmosphere of lava planet K2-141b: implications for low and high resolution spectroscopy https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.14101 The large-scale magnetic field of Proxima Centauri near activity maximum https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.14311 Atmosphere Models of Brown Dwarfs Irradiated by White Dwarfs: Analogues for Hot and Ultra-Hot Jupiters https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.14319 Revisiting migration in a disc cavity to explain the high eccentricities of warm Jupiters https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.14425 TOI-954 b and EPIC 246193072 b: Short-Period Saturn-Mass Planets that Test Whether Irradiation Leads to Inflation https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.14436 Breve historia de la astrobiología en Argentina https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.13883
October 27, 2020 updates Transit timing variation signature of planet migration: the case of K2-24 https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/11/aa39038-20/aa39038-20.html Rotational spectral modulation of cloudless atmospheres for L/T brown dwarfs and extrasolar giant planets https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/11/aa38771-20/aa38771-20.html The MKID Exoplanet Camera for Subaru SCExAO https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.12620 Insights into the planetary dynamics of HD 206893 with ALMA https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.12582 Light-Curve Evolution due to Secular Dynamics and the Vanishing Transits of KOI 120.01 https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.13051 Dynamical evolution of a young planetary system: stellar flybys in co-planar orbital configuration https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.13181 A Framework for Relative Biosignature Yields from Future Direct Imaging Missions https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.13762
October 26, 2020 updates Dynamical evolution of a young planetary system: stellar flybys in co-planar orbital configuration https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10509-020-03885-4 Spitzer Reveals Evidence of Molecular Absorption in the Atmosphere of the Hot Neptune LTT 9779b https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abbc70 Phase Curves of Hot Neptune LTT 9779b Suggest a High-metallicity Atmosphere https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abbc71 Search for planets in hot Jupiter systems with multi-sector TESS photometry. I. No companions in planetary systems KELT-18, KELT-23, KELT-24, Qatar-8, WASP-62, WASP-100, WASP-119, and WASP-126 https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.11977 Coexistence of CH4, CO2 and H2O in exoplanet atmospheres https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.12241 Evolution of a migrating giant planet in the presence of an inclined binary companion https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.12296
October 23, 2020 updates Connecting planet formation and astrochemistry – C/Os and N/Os of warm giant planets and Jupiter analogues https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/10/aa38767-20/aa38767-20.html Mapping the “long tail” of research funding: A topic analysis of NSF grant proposals in the division of astronomical sciences https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pra2.276 Do instabilities in high-multiplicity systems explain the existence of close-in white dwarf planets? https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.11403 Radial-velocity search and statistical studies for short-period planets in the Pleiades open cluster https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.11577 Tidal Dissipation in Dual-Body, Highly Eccentric, and Non-synchronously Rotating Systems: Applications to Pluto-Charon and the Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1e https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.11801 The nature and origins of sub-Neptune size planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.11867
October 22, 2020 updates Stellar clustering shapes the architecture of planetary systems https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2800-0 Giant Planets, Tiny Stars: Producing Short-Period Planets around White Dwarfs with the Eccentric Kozai-Lidov Mechanism https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.10534 Gemini Planet Imager Spectroscopy of the Dusty Substellar Companion HD 206893 B https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.10546 Did life originate from low-temperature areas of the Universe? https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.10905
October 21, 2020 updates Which stars can see Earth as a transiting exoplanet? https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/article/499/1/L111/5931805 The K2 and TESS Synergy. I. Updated Ephemerides and Parameters for K2-114, K2-167, K2-237, and K2-261 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aba964 Exoplanets and the Sun https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.09878 Revealing Short-period Exoplanets and Brown Dwarfs in the Galactic Bulge using the Microlensing Xallarap Effect with the \textit{Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope} https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.10315 Orbital Eccentricity — Multiplicity Correlation for Planetary Systems and Comparison to the Solar System https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.10371 WD 1856 b: a close giant planet around a white dwarf that could have survived a common-envelope phase https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.09747
October 20, 2020 updates An Exact, Generalized Laplace Resonance in the HR 8799 Planetary System https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abb881 Into the UV: The Atmosphere of the Hot Jupiter HAT-P-41b Revealed https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.08551 OGLE-2018-BLG-0799Lb: a Sub-Saturn-Mass Planet Orbiting a Very Low Mass Dwarf https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.08732 The Hubble PanCET Program: A Metal-rich Atmosphere for the Inflated Hot Jupiter HAT-P-41b https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.09659 Masses for Free-Floating Planets and Dwarf Planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.09671 Numerical Convergence of Hot-Jupiter Atmospheric Flow Solutions https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.09695
October 19, 2020 updates The need for laboratory work to aid in the understanding of exoplanetary atmospheres https://scholarworks.calstate.edu/concern/publications/jw827f98q Exploring Biogenic Dispersion Inside Star Clusters with System Dynamics Modeling https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202010.0232/v1 Traversable wormholes supported by non-exotic matter in general relativity https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1384107620302499 Hiding Planets behind a Big Friend: Resonant Planets with an Inclined External Companion https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.08046 Can Large-Scale Migration Explain the Giant Planet Occurrence Rate? https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.07949
October 16, 2020 updates Characterizing the possible interior structures of the nearby Exoplanets Proxima Centauri b and Ross-128 b https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa3110/5924464 As the Worlds Turn: Constraining Spin Evolution in the Planetary-Mass Regime https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.07315 Robust asteroseismic properties of the bright planet host HD 38529 https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.07323 KMT-2017-BLG-2820 and the Nature of the Free-Floating Planet Population https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.07527 A likely magnetic activity cycle for the exoplanet host M dwarf GJ 3512 https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.07715
October 15, 2020 updates Planetary system LHS 1140 revisited with ESPRESSO and TESS https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/10/aa38922-20/aa38922-20.html The cloudy shape of hot Jupiter thermal phase curves https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.06934 Clouds in Three-Dimensional Models of Hot Jupiters Over a Wide Range of Temperatures I: Thermal Structures and Broadband Phase Curve Predictions https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.06936 Statistics of the Chemical Composition of Solar Analog Stars and Links to Planet Formation https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.07241 Impossible moons — Transit timing effects that cannot be due to an exomoon https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.04230
October 14, 2020 updates Out of a Silent Planet https://geopolicraticus.tumblr.com/post/631920838097223680/out-of-a-silent-planet Abundance measurements of H2O and carbon-bearing species in the atmosphere of WASP-127b confirm its super-solar metallicity https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa3116/5922728 Search for radio emission from the exoplanets Qatar-1b and WASP-80b near 150 MHz using the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.06337 Exploring Super-Earth Surfaces: Albedo of Near-Airless Magma Ocean Planets and Topography https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.06433 Chemical Fingerprints of Formation in Rocky Super-Earths’ Data https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.06480
October 13, 2020 updates Coupled Day-Night Models of Exoplanetary Atmospheres https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa3143/5921219 Change in the brightness of interstellar comet 2I/Borisov https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0032063320303305 Statistical properties of habitable zones in stellar binary systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.05585 Kozai Migration Naturally Explains the White Dwarf Planet WD1856b https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.04724 Measuring Transit Signal Recovery in the Kepler Pipeline IV: Completeness of the DR25 Planet Candidate catalog https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.04796 The Color of Habitability https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.05046 Physically constrained causal noise models for high-contrast imaging of exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.05591
October 12, 2020 updates Exoplanet Hunting in Deep Space with Machine Learning https://www.journals.resaim.com/ijresm/article/view/323 Propulsion for Spacecrafts using on-board Laser Reflection and Absorption https://engrxiv.org/fh6ez/ Sun-as-a-star Spectral Irradiance Observations of Transiting Active Regions https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abadf9 Towards a more complex description of chemical profiles in exoplanets retrievals: A 2-layer parameterisation https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.11180 Direct confirmation of the radial-velocity planet β Pic c https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.04442 Solid tidal friction in multi-layer planets: Application to Earth, Venus, a Super Earth and the TRAPPIST-1 planets. Can a multi-layer planet be approximated as a homogeneous planet? https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.04587 Europium as a lodestar: diagnosis of radiogenic heat production in terrestrial exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.04632
October 9, 2020 updates Cardiovascular deconditioning during long-term spaceflight through multiscale modeling https://www.nature.com/articles/s41526-020-00117-5 Stable climates for temperate rocky circumbinary planets https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020JE006712 A Highly Eccentric Warm Jupiter Orbiting TIC 237913194 https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.03570 Microelectromechanical deformable mirror development for high-contrast imaging, part 2: the impact of quantization errors on coronagraph image contrast https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.03704 Mutual detectability: a targeted SETI strategy that avoids the SETI Paradox https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.04089 The TESS Phase Curve of KELT-1b Suggests a High Dayside Albedo https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.10292
October 8, 2020 updates Phase-curve Pollution of Exoplanet Transit Depths https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abac09 Mutual inclinations between giant planets and their debris discs in HD 113337 and HD 38529 https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.02961 Occurrence rates of small planets from HARPS: Focus on the Galactic context https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.03237 Matched filtering with non-Gaussian noise for planet transit detections https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.03470 Astrochemistry and compositions of planetary systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.03529 Interactive Visualization of Atmospheric Effects for Celestial Bodies https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.03534
October 7, 2020 updates The Isotopic Imprint of Life on an Evolving Planet https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-020-00730-6 Waterworlds May Have Better Climate Buffering Capacities than Their Continental Counterparts https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abb882 Observable Signatures of the Ejection Speed of Interstellar Objects from their Birth Systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.02214 Earth as an Exoplanet: I. Time variable thermal emission using spatially resolved MODIS data https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.02589
October 6, 2020 updates Lightweight metasurface mirror of silicon nanospheres https://www.osapublishing.org/ome/abstract.cfm?uri=ome-10-10-2706 Habitable worlds of merging stars https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/habitable-worlds-of-merging-stars/89F8F995D2C47BCEE4CD800E5A60D8F8 Expecting the unexpected in the search for extraterrestrial life https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/expecting-the-unexpected-in-the-search-for-extraterrestrial-life/6D49A34118730A6DBA09E41DF75A72B3 KELT-11 b: Abundances of water and constraints on carbon-bearing molecules from the Hubble transmission spectrum https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.01310 Finding Signs of Life on Earth-like Planets: High-resolution Transmission Spectra of Earth through time around FGKM stars https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.01734 K2-111: an old system with two planets in near-resonance https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.01993 Time-resolved rotational velocities in the upper atmosphere of WASP-33 b https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.02118 Spectropolarimetry of primitive phototrophs as global surface biosignatures https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.02133
October 5, 2020 updates Stability of P-type orbits around stellar binaries: an extension to counter-rotating orbits https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1384107620302475 EvryFlare III: Temperature Evolution and Habitability Impacts of Dozens of Superflares Observed Simultaneously by Evryscope and TESS https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.00604 A Comprehensive Reanalysis of Spitzer’s 4.5 μm Phase Curves, and the Phase Variations of the Ultra-hot Jupiters MASCARA-1b and KELT-16b https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.00687 A data-driven approach to constraining the atmospheric temperature structure of KELT-9b https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.00997 Refining the transit timing and photometric analysis of TRAPPIST-1: Masses, radii, densities, dynamics, and ephemerides https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.01074
October 2, 2020 updates CHESS: An innovative concept for high-resolution, far-UV spectroscopy https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10686-020-09670-z Direct confirmation of the radial-velocity planet β Pictoris c https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/10/aa39039-20/aa39039-20.html Unveiling the β Pictoris system, coupling high contrast imaging, interferometric, and radial velocity data https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/10/aa38823-20/aa38823-20.html Obliquity measurement and atmospheric characterisation of the WASP-74 planetary system https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/10/aa38703-20/aa38703-20.html A High-Cadence UV-Optical Telescope Suite On The Lunar South Pole https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.00007 Beyond Equilibrium Temperature: How the Atmosphere/Interior Connection Affects the Onset of Methane, Ammonia, and Clouds in Warm Transiting Giant Planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.00146 The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Three temperate to warm super-Earths https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.00474
October 1, 2020 updates Search for New Worlds at Home With NASA’s Planet Patrol Project https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/search-for-new-worlds-at-home-with-nasa-s-planet-patrol-project A precise architecture characterization of the π Mensae planetary system https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/10/aa38416-20/aa38416-20.html Search for Nearby Earth Analogs .III. Detection of 10 New Planets, 3 Planet Candidates, and Confirmation of 3 Planets around 11 Nearby M Dwarfs https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/abb139 The TESS-Keck Survey. III. A Stellar Obliquity Measurement of TOI-1726 c https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abb3bd How Does Background Air Pressure Influence the Inner Edge of the Habitable Zone for Tidally Locked Planets in a 3D View? https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abb87f VIBES: VIsual Binary Exoplanet survey with SPHERE Upper limits on wide S-planet and S-BD frequencies, triple system discovery, and astrometric confirmation of 20 stellar binaries and three triple systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.14528 Effect of mantle oxidation state and escape upon the evolution of Earth’s magma ocean atmosphere https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.14599 Application of Orbital Stability and Tidal Migration Constraints for Exomoon Candidates https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.14723
September 30, 2020 updates TOI 540 b: A Planet Smaller than Earth Orbiting a Nearby Rapidly Rotating Low-mass Star https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.13623 The Phase-curve Signature of Condensible Water-rich Atmospheres on Slowly Rotating Tidally Locked Exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.13638 Maintaining the Ephemeris of 20 CoRoT Planets: Transit Minimum Times and Potential Transit Timing Variations https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.14132 Determining the true mass of radial-velocity exoplanets with Gaia: 9 planet candidates in the brown-dwarf/stellar regime and 27 confirmed planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.14164 The Sun Diver: Combining solar sails with the Oberth effect https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.12659
September 29, 2020 updates Effects of Flux Variation on the Surface Temperatures of Earth-analog Circumbinary Planets https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa2980/5912456 A terrestrial-mass rogue planet candidate detected in the shortest-timescale microlensing event https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.12377 How Does Thermal Scattering Shape the Infrared Spectra of Cloudy Exoplanets? A Theoretical Framework and Consequences for Atmospheric Retrievals in the JWST era https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.12411 Detection of the Occultation of 55 Cancri e with TESS https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.12601 Lunar Opportunities for SETI https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.12689 An Ultra-Hot Neptune in the Neptune desert https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.12832 Hot Exoplanet Atmospheres Resolved with Transit Spectroscopy (HEARTS) VI. Non-detection of sodium with HARPS on the bloated super-Neptune WASP-127b https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.13386 The hot dayside and asymmetric transit of WASP-189b seen by CHEOPS https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.13403 A Titan mission using the Direct Fusion Drive https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.12621
September 28, 2020 updates The hot dayside and asymmetric transit of WASP-189 b seen by CHEOPS https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/forth/aa38677-20.pdf The path to instability in compact multi-planetary systems https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/09/aa38764-20/aa38764-20.html TESS Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets (THYME). III. A Two-planet System in the 400 Myr Ursa Major Group https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abae64 Constraints on the abundance of 0.01c stellar engines in the Milky Way https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.08874 The HD 217107 Planetary System: Twenty Years of Radial Velocity Measurements https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.12356
September 25, 2020 updates Revised instellation patterns for close-in exoplanets https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa2867/5909055 Integrating Light Curve and Atmospheric Modeling of Transiting Exoplanets https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abaabc Two Planets Straddling the Habitable Zone of The Nearby K dwarf Gl 414A https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344371776_Two_Planets_Straddling_the_Habitable_Zone_of_The_Nearby_K_dwarf_Gl_414A On the Temperature Profiles and Emission Spectra of Mini-Neptune Atmospheres https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.11290 The CHEOPS mission https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.11633 Stability Constrained Characterization of Multiplanet Systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.11831
September 24, 2020 updates Search for He I airglow emission from the hot Jupiter τ Boo b https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/09/aa38412-20/aa38412-20.html The Biological Universe: Life in the Milky Way and Beyond https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/biological-universe/4599E17C7FAAECE4A87038C62039C755 The Origin of Systems of Tightly Packed Inner Planets with Misaligned, Ultra-Short-Period Companions https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.10745 TESS Observations of the Hot Jupiter Exoplanet XO-6b: No Evidence of Transit Timing Variations https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.10781 Launching the VASCO citizen science project https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.10813
September 23, 2020 updates AQUA: A Collection of H2O Equations of State for Planetary Models https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.10098 HORuS transmission spectroscopy of 55 Cnc e https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.10122 Over 1300 new periodic signals detected in the first year of TESS with the weirddetector https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.10232 How many suns are in the sky? A SPHERE multiplicity survey of exoplanet host stars I — Four new close stellar companions including a white dwarf https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.10363 Discovery of a hot, transiting, Earth-sized planet and a second temperate, non-transiting planet around the M4 dwarf GJ 3473 (TOI-488) https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.10432 On The Compatibility of Ground-based and Space-based Data: WASP-96 b, An Example https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.10438 NGTS-12b: A sub-Saturn mass transiting exoplanet in a 7.53 day orbit https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.10620
September 22, 2020 updates In Search for a Planet Better than Earth: Top Contenders for a Superhabitable World https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2019.2161 An ultrahot Neptune in the Neptune desert https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1142-z M51-ULS-1b: The First Candidate for a Planet in an External Galaxy https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.08987 A Significant Increase in Detection of High-Resolution Emission Spectra Using a Three-Dimensional Atmospheric Model of a Hot Jupiter https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.09030 Dynamical Mass Estimates of the β Pictoris Planetary System Through Gaussian Process Stellar Activity Modelling https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.09276 TFAW survey. I. Wavelet-based denoising of K2 light curves. Discovery and validation of two new Earth-sized planets in K2 campaign 1 https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.09285 A numerical method for computing optimum radii of host stars and orbits of planets, with application to Kepler-11, Kepler-90, Kepler-215, HD 10180, HD 34445, and TRAPPIST-1 https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.09732 Theoretical vs. observational uncertainties: composition of giant exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.09746 On the interstellar origin of high-inclination Centaurs https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.09773 Going back to basics: accelerating exoplanet transit modelling using Taylor-series expansion of the orbital motion https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.09965
September 21, 2020 updates π Earth: A 3.14 day Earth-sized Planet from K2’s Kitchen Served Warm by the SPECULOOS Team https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aba95f Circular Binary Star and an Interstellar Interloper: The Analytical Solution https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1384107620303377 MOA-2009-BLG-319Lb: A Sub-Saturn Planet Inside the Predicted Mass Desert https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.08461 ACCESS: Confirmation of no potassium in the atmosphere of WASP-31b https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.08472 RoadRunner: a fast and flexible exoplanet transit model https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.08500 Multi-orbital-phase and multi-band characterization of exoplanetary atmospheres with reflected light spectra https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.08579 Oumuamuas passing through molecular clouds https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.08773 TOI-481 b & TOI-892 b: Two long period hot Jupiters from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.08881 WASP-117 b: an eccentric hot-Saturn as a future complex chemistry laboratory https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.08916 Novel Technosignatures https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.08873
September 17, 2020 updates A giant planet candidate transiting a white dwarf https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2713-y The White Dwarf Opportunity: Robust Detections of Molecules in Earth-like Exoplanet Atmospheres with the James Webb Space Telescope https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aba9d3 Exploration of trans-Neptunian objects using the Direct Fusion Drive https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576520305610 Abundant atmospheric methane from volcanism on terrestrial planets is unlikely and strengthens the case for methane as a biosignature https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.07761 On The Biomass Required To Produce Phosphine Detected In The Cloud Decks Of Venus https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.07835
September 16, 2020 updates GJ 357 b – A super-Earth orbiting an extremely inactive host star https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/09/aa38280-20/aa38280-20.html An Increase in Small-planet Occurrence with Metallicity for Late-type Dwarf Stars in the Kepler Field and Its Implications for Planet Formation https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.06638 Revisiting the Architecture of the KOI-89 System https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.06850 An exact, generalised Laplace resonance in the HR 8799 planetary system https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.07006 An Earth-like stellar wind environment for Proxima Centauri c https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.07266
September 15, 2020 updates Life in Extreme Environments: Insights in Biological Capability – Chapter 13: Analytical astrobiology: the search for life signatures and the remote detection of biomarkers through their Raman spectral interrogation https://www.amazon.com/Life-Extreme-Environments-Biological-Capability-ebook/dp/B08GG9S318/ Fine-Tuning in the Physical Universe – Chapter 12: On the Temporal Habitability of Our Universe https://www.amazon.com/Fine-Tuning-Physical-Universe-David-Sloan-ebook/dp/B08GG9RHHG/ Phosphine gas in the cloud decks of Venus https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1174-4 A search for He I airglow emission from the hot Jupiter tau Boo b https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.05821 Discriminating between hazy and clear hot-Jupiter atmospheres with CARMENES https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.06280 The Venusian Lower Atmosphere Haze as a Depot for Desiccated Microbial Life: A Proposed Life Cycle for Persistence of the Venusian Aerial Biosphere https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.06474 Phosphine on Venus Cannot be Explained by Conventional Processes https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.06499 Two Planets Straddling the Habitable Zone of The Nearby K dwarf Gl 414A https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.06503
September 14, 2020 updates Characterization of the K2-38 planetary system – Unraveling one of the densest planets known to date https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/09/aa38187-20/aa38187-20.html An ATA Search for a Repetition of the Wow Signal https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aba58f A Search for Rotation Periods in 1000 TESS Objects of Interest https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/aba73f What limits photosynthesis? Identifying the thermodynamic constraints of the terrestrial biosphere within the Earth system https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0005272820301535 The impact of life on climate stabilisation over different timescales https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020GC009105 Reflected Light Observations of the Galilean Satellites from Cassini: a testbed for cold terrestrial exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.05467
September 11, 2020 updates Can Self-Replicating Species Flourish in the Interior of a Star? https://osf.io/j6gux/ Precision radial velocity measurements by the forward-modeling technique in the near-infrared https://academic.oup.com/pasj/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/pasj/psaa085/5903842 A Search for FeH in Hot-Jupiter Atmospheres with High-Dispersion Spectroscopy https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.04474 Coupling thermal evolution of planets and hydrodynamic atmospheric escape in MESA https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.04948
Septermber 10, 2020 updates Peas in a Pod? Radius Correlations in Kepler Multiplanet Systems https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abab9e Measuring Transit Signal Recovery in the Kepler Pipeline. IV. Completeness of the DR25 Planet Candidate Catalog https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abab0b Eclipse timing variation of GK Vir: evidence of a possible Jupiter-like planet in a circumbinary orbit https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.03978 On the Possible Evolutionay History of the Water Ocean on Venus https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.04040 Evidence of Three Mechanisms Explaining the Radius Anomaly of Hot Jupiters https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.04291 Stellar Flares versus Luminosity: XUV-induced Atmospheric Escape and Planetary Habitability https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.04310 A super-Earth and a sub-Neptune orbiting the bright, quiet M3 dwarf TOI-1266 https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.04317
September 9, 2020 updates Dynamics of Colombo’s Top: Generating Exoplanet Obliquities from Planet-Disk Interactions https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.14380 Physical Parameters of the Multi-Planet Systems HD 106315 and GJ 9827 https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.03398
September 8, 2020 updates First Life in the Universe https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.01344 A SETI Survey of the Vela Region using the Murchison Widefield Array: Orders of Magnitude Expansion in Search Space https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.03267 An unusually low density ultra-short period super-Earth and three mini-Neptunes around the old star TOI-561 https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.02332 The quest for planets around subdwarfs and white dwarfs from Kepler space telescope fields: Part I. Techniques and tests of the methods https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.02749 The TESS-Keck Survey II: Masses of Three Sub-Neptunes Transiting the Galactic Thick-Disk Star TOI-561 https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.03071
September 7, 2020 updates SETI: the argument for artefact searches https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/seti-the-argument-for-artefact-searches/079216EEA0D45D396C9C139C559840AB Non-local thermodynamic equilibrium transmission spectrum modelling of HD 209458b https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/09/aa37672-20/aa37672-20.html Conformally symmetric traversable wormholes in f(R,T) gravity https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003491620302293 Direct characterization of young giant exoplanets at high spectral resolution by coupling SPHERE and CRIRES+ https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.01841 Interstellar communication network. II. Deep space nodes with gravitational lensing https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.01866 Astrophysical Simulations and Data Analyses on the Formation, Detection, and Habitability of Moons Around Extrasolar Planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.01881 The Galactic cosmic ray intensity at the evolving Earth and young exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.02173 On the origin of the eccentricity dichotomy displayed by compact super-Earths: dynamical heating by cold giants https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.02245
September 4, 2020 updates Quantum coherence to interstellar distances https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344037968_Quantum_coherence_to_interstellar_distances The High-Energy Radiation Environment Around a 10 Gyr M Dwarf: Habitable at Last? https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.01259 Utilizing a Database of Simulated Geometric Albedo Spectra for Photometric Characterization of Rocky Exoplanet Atmospheres https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.01330
September 3, 2020 updates Cosmology, astrobiology, and the RNA world: Just add quintessential water https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343858864_Cosmology_astrobiology_and_the_RNA_world_Just_add_quintessential_water The ExoMolOP Database: Cross-sections and k-tables for Molecules of Interest in High-Temperature Exoplanet Atmospheres https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.00687 The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs: Rubidium abundances in nearby cool stars https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.00876
September 2, 2020 updates Centro de Astrobiología: 20 Years Building Astrobiology https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2020.0804 The Influence of Stellar Phosphorus On Our Understanding of Exoplanets and Astrobiology https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.00009 Habitable Zones in Binary Star Systems: A Zoology https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.00144 On the evolution of global ocean tides https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.00204 The Equatorial Jet Speed on Tidally Locked Planets: I — Terrestrial Planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.00358
September 1 updates On the Detection and Characterization of Exomoons Through Survey and Targeted Observations https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/d8-fq1c-qd02 Dynamical Chaos in Planetary Systems https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-52144-8 Dust distribution around low-mass planets on converging orbits https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.13464 The ominous fate of exomoons around hot Jupiters in the high-eccentricity migration scenario https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.13778
August 31, 2020 updates Photometry of exoplanetary transits at Osservatorio Polifunzionale del Chianti https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10686-020-09669-6 Possible New Envelope Types of Hot Jupiters https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063772920080090 Seeing above the Clouds with High Resolution Spectroscopy https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa2424/5899070 Chemical Fingerprints of Formation in Rocky Super-Earths’ Data https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa2615/5899063 Retention of Long-period Gas Giant Planets: Type II Migration Revisited https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abaab6 TKS III: A Stellar Obliquity Measurement of TOI-1726 c https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.12397 The TOI-763 system: sub-Neptunes orbiting a Sun-like star https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.12535
August 28, 2020 updates TOI-824 b: A New Planet on the Lower Edge of the Hot Neptune Desert https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.11732 The effects of granulation and supergranulation on Earth-mass planet detectability in the habitable zone around F6-K4 stars https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.11952
August 27, 2020 updates Effects of Astrobiology Lectures on Knowledge and Attitudes about Science in Incarcerated Populations https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2019.2209 Humanly traversable wormholes https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.06618 The interstellar communication relay https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/interstellar-communication-relay/5539B6B1C914354FFB3E8F08399B03D8 Prospects for Characterizing the Haziest Sub-Neptune Exoplanets with High Resolution Spectroscopy https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.11299 Lithologic Controls on Silicate Weathering Regimes of Temperate Planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.11620 Fear the Shadows of the Giants: On Secular Perturbations in Circumstellar Habitable Zones of Double Stars https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.11651
August 26, 2020 updates Observational Constraints on the Formation and Evolution of Neptune-Class Exoplanets https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-020-00726-2 SPIRou: nIR velocimetry & spectropolarimetry at the CFHT https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa2569/5897365 2D Retrieval Frameworks for Hot Jupiter Phase Curves https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aba8f9 The Resilience of Habitable Climates Around Circumbinary Stars https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020JE006576 Stability of Planetary Motion in Binary Star Systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.11107 Improving Exoplanet Detection Power: Multivariate Gaussian Process Models for Stellar Activity https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.01318
August 25, 2020 updates Conceptual Interstellar Map and Status Panel Design https://scholarworks.rit.edu/theses/10559/ The Astrobiology of Alien Worlds: Known and Unknown Forms of Life https://www.mdpi.com/2218-1997/6/9/130/htm Exoplanet Validation with Machine Learning: 50 new validated Kepler planets https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa2498/5894933 Influence of C/O Ratio on Hot Jupiter Atmospheric Chemistry https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aba828 Haze Formation in Warm H2-rich Exoplanet Atmospheres https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.09700 A search for transiting planets around FGKM dwarfs and sub-giants in the TESS Full Frame Images of the Southern ecliptic hemisphere https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.09832 The Impact of Tidal Disruption Events on Galactic Habitability https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.09988 On the Orbital Spacing Pattern of Kepler Multiple Planet Systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.10051 More planetary candidates from K2 Campaign 5 by tran_k2 https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.10075 ‘Oumuamua as a Cometary Fractal Aggregate: the “Dust Bunny” Model https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.10083
August 24, 2020 updates Dust content solutions for the Alcubierre warp drive spacetime https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.06560 The Venusian Lower Atmosphere Haze as a Depot for Desiccated Microbial Life: A Proposed Life Cycle for Persistence of the Venusian Aerial Biosphere https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2020.2244 Convective Differential Rotation in Stars and Planets I: Theory https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.09125 Convective Differential Rotation in Stars and Planets II: Observational and Numerical Tests https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.09126 Surface and oceanic habitability of Trappist-1 planets under the impact of flares https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.09147 Four Microlensing Planets with Faint-source Stars Identified in the 2016 and 2017 Season Data https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.09258 The GAPS Programme at TNG XXVII. Reassessment of a young planetary system with HARPS-N: is the hot Jupiter V830 Tau b really there? https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.09445 Magma ocean evolution of the TRAPPIST-1 planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.09599
August 21, 2020 updates Design and analysis of a growable artificial gravity space habitat https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1270963820308294 A disk-driven resonance as the origin of high inclinations of close-in planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.08587 Stable Partial Ice Cover Possible for Any Obliquity: Effects of Obliquity, Albedo, and Heat Transport on Ice Cover Dynamics https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.08671 Isotopically distinct terrestrial planets via local accretion https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.08850
August 20, 2020 updates Monitoring of transiting exoplanets and their host stars with small aperture telescopes https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.08379
August 19, 2020 updates Evaluating Biosignatures for Life Detection https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2019.2151 TFAW survey. I. Wavelet-based denoising of K2 light curves. Discovery and validation of two new Earth-sized planets in K2 campaign 1 https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa2509/5894404 Stability of planetary, single M dwarf, and binary star companions to Kepler detached eclipsing binaries and a possible five body system https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.07731 Constraining the Bulk Composition of Disintegrating Exoplanets Using Combined Transmission Spectra from JWST and SPICA https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.07781 Search for Nearby Earth Analogs. III. Detection of ten new planets, three planet candidates, and confirmation of three planets around eleven nearby M dwarfs https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.07998
August 17, 2020 updates Curvature Invariants for the Accelerating Natario Warp Drive https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.03366 Passive shielding of space radiation for human exploration missions – Simulations and Radiation Tests https://iris.polito.it/handle/11583/2711122?mode=full.8023 The Multiplanet System TOI-421 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aba124 From the LIPS of a serial killer: Endogenic retardation of biological evolution on unstable stagnant-lid planets https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0032063320302816 Interstellar Now! Missions to and Sample Returns from Nearby Interstellar Objects https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343678500_Interstellar_Now_Missions_to_and_Sample_Returns_from_Nearby_Interstellar_Objects
August 14, 2020 updates A Featureless Infrared Transmission Spectrum for the Super-Puff Planet Kepler-79d https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.05480 The Nature of the Radius Valley: Hints from Formation and Evolution Models https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.05513 Paving the Way to Future Missions: the Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Technology Demonstration https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.05624 Strong Scatterings of Cold Jupiters and their Influence on Inner Low-mass Planet Systems: Theory and Simulations https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.05698 Detection Limits of Low-mass, Long-period Exoplanets Using Gaussian Processes Applied to HARPS-N Solar RVs https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.05970 Where are the Extrasolar Mercuries? https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.05992
August 13, 2020 updates The Gaia–Kepler Stellar Properties Catalog. II. Planet Radius Demographics as a Function of Stellar Mass and Age https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aba18a ARES. II. Characterizing the Hot Jupiters WASP-127 b, WASP-79 b, and WASP-62b with the Hubble Space Telescope https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab94a3 Could the Migration of Jupiter have Accelerated the Atmospheric Evolution of Venus? https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.04927 Effects of Flux Variation on the Surface Temperatures of Earth-like Circumbinary Planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.04992 The GALAH Survey: Using Galactic Archaeology to Refine our Knowledge of TESS Target Stars https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.05372 Early science with SPIRou: near-infrared radial velocity and spectropolarimetry of the planet-hosting star HD 189733 https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.05411 Project Lyra: Catching 1I/’Oumuamua Using Nuclear Thermal Rockets https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.05435 Optical Transmission Spectroscopy of the Terrestrial Exoplanet LHS 3844b from 13 Ground-Based Transit Observations https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.05444
August 12, 2020 updates Constraining Prebiotic Chemistry Through a Better Understanding of Earth’s Earliest Environments https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.04803
August 11, 2020 updates Human Enhancements for Space Missions https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-42036-9 MCNP Design of Radiation Shielding for Pulsed Fusion Propulsion https://search.proquest.com/openview/017c5c64b6e4486f3a1ef8c4bbbf2aa2/ Orbital and Flight Stability Models for Breakthrough Starshot’s AO System https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/642118 A naked gas giant https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1184-2 Monte Carlo estimation of the probability of causal contacts between communicating civilizations https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/monte-carlo-estimation-of-the-probability-of-causal-contacts-between-communicating-civilizations/E5CDEC05285A00DBA41E0A80C0F5FA03 Agent-based modelling of interstellar contacts using rumour spread models https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/agentbased-modelling-of-interstellar-contacts-using-rumour-spread-models/F223CB0F8C8CAA46C612155255B6CD05 The Importance of Local Interstellar Conditions on the Galactic Cosmic-Ray Spectrum at Exoplanets https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aba7c8 Astraea: Predicting Long Rotation Periods with 27-Day Light Curves https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.03351 Water worlds in N-body simulations with fragmentation in systems without gaseous giants https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.03594 An Independent Analysis of the Six Recently Claimed Exomoon Candidates https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.03613 Non-detection of O2/O3 informs frequency of Earth-like planets with LUVOIR but not HabEx https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.03952 Probing the atmosphere of HD189733b with the Na I and K I lines https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.04044
August 10, 2020 updates Observing The Growth Of Breathable O2 Producer In High And Low Pressure And Light Conditions https://spacegrant.oregonstate.edu/sites/spacegrant.oregonstate.edu/files/roodzack-5bf8q_presentation.pdf Power Beaming Leakage Radiation as a Technosignature Observable https://www.essoar.org/doi/abs/10.1002/essoar.10503872.1 Heat and charge transport in H2O at ice-giant conditions from ab initio molecular dynamics simulations https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17275-5 Ground-Based Transmission Spectroscopy with FORS2: A featureless optical transmission spectrum and detection of H2O for the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-103b https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa2307/5885344 Thermal Variations of Extremely Close-in Exoplanets https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/abacb9 The challenge of identifying interstellar meteors https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0032063320302737 Monitoring of transiting exoplanets and their host stars with small aperture telescopes https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1384107620301457 Multiple Explanations for the Single Transit of KIC 5951458 based on Radial Velocity Measurements Extracted with a Novel Matched-template Technique https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.02811 Tidal dissipation in evolving low-mass and solar-type stars with predictions for planetary orbital decay https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.03262
August 7, 2020 updates Pixel Level Decorrelation in Service of the Spitzer Microlens Parallax Survey https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa2245/5881942 The effect of galactic chemical evolution on terrestrial exoplanet composition and tectonics https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103520303869 A Large Repository of 3D Climate Model Outputs for Community Analysis and Postprocessing https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.02339 A white dwarf bound to the transiting planetary system WASP-98 https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.02533 Multiple Transits during a Single Conjunction: Identifying Transiting Circumbinary Planetary Candidates from TESS https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.02756 Inverse design of surfaces by deployable origami https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.02349
Interstellar Research Group (IRG) is proud to announce the winners of the 2020 Scholarship Program Following a competitive process with many high-quality applicants, the Interstellar Research Group has chosen three students as the recipients of our 2020 scholarships. With the support of Baen Books (who sponsor the Tim Bolgeo Memorial Scholarship), Rob and Ruann Hampson, and Jay and Beth Roye, we are awarding these deserving students one graduate scholarship ($2500) and two undergraduate scholarships ($2500 each). These scholarships were created to encourage the next generation to study science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields that support the research needed to get humanity to the stars.Our winners are: Hayden Morgan, our graduate-level winner, and winner of the Tim Bolgeo Memorial Scholarship, earned a BS in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Cincinnati in 2019. He participated in the Midwest Hyperloop group which competed in the 2019 SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition, as well as serving as a mentor to high school students in designing, fabricating, and testing robots capable of completing complex tasks. He is pursuing a MS in Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University. His winning essay can be read here. Our first undergraduate winner, Isabel Collins, comes from New Orleans, LA, and will be attending The University of the South in the fall, majoring in Biochemistry. In high school, she was very involved several service organizations, as well as the National Honors Society, and she took first place in the Biology AP competition. Summer internships at Ochsner Medical Center and Tulane Medical School have led her to pursue a career in research. Her winning essay can be read here. Evelyn Johnson, our second undergraduate winner, is an undergraduate at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia. She took classes from West Georgia Technical College (dual enrollment program) and plans a double major in History and Biology with a minor in Chemistry. She plans to attend Mercer Medical School for her M.D., to serve the rural areas in her community, to dedicate her studies to the betterment of public health in this country. Her winning essay can be read here. About IRG The purpose of Interstellar Research Group is to facilitate interstellar research and exploration by hosting regular summit meetings, encouraging educational advances, publishing technical and scientific papers, and supporting literature and culture, all in the service of enhancing public understanding and dialogue toward interstellar exploration. IRG will assist in building a technological, philosophical, and economic infrastructure that advances the goal of establishing outposts throughout the Solar System and, finally, achieving a pathway to the stars. Learn more about IRG online, and connect via social media: Web: https://irg.spaceFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/InterstellarResearchGroupTwitter: https://twitter.com/tviwusYouTube: http://youtube.com/tviw
August 6, 2020 updates The Hubble Space Telescope’s Near-UV and Optical Transmission Spectrum of Earth as an Exoplanet https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aba0b4 Characterization of the Atmosphere of Super-Earth 55 Cancri e Using High-resolution Ground-based Spectroscopy https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aba1eb Planck Frequencies as Schelling Points in SETI https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.01817 A Library of Self-Consistent Simulated Exoplanet Atmospheres https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.01856 Venus as a Nearby Exoplanetary Laboratory https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.01888
August 5, 2020 updates An Astrometric Planetary Companion Candidate to the M9 Dwarf TVLM 513–46546 https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.01595 Primordial Radius Gap and Potentially Broad Core Mass Distributions of Super-Earths and Sub-Neptunes https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.01105 The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs — A deep learning approach to determine fundamental parameters of target stars https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.01186 A dayside thermal inversion in the atmosphere of WASP-19b https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.01288 The Habitability of the Galactic Bulge https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.01419
August 4, 2020 updates Inverse design of lightweight broadband reflector for relativistic lightsail propulsion https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsphotonics.0c00768 Low-albedo Surfaces of Lava Worlds https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab9cba Detection of Fe i Emission in the Dayside Spectrum of WASP-33b https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aba4b6 LRG-BEASTS: Ground-based Detection of Sodium and a Steep Optical Slope in the Atmosphere of the Highly Inflated Hot-Saturn WASP-21b https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.00971 Colour-magnitude diagrams of transiting Exoplanets — III. A public code, nine strange planets, and the role of Phosphine https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.00995 The dynamical evolution of close-in binary systems formed by a super-Earth and its host star. Case of the Kepler-21 system https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.10575
August 3, 2020 updates SETI and Democracy https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.13515 Planetary System from the Outer Edge of the Inner Void — Classes and Populations of Variety https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.15979 LOUPE: Observing Earth from the Moon to prepare for detecting life on Earth-like exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.16078
July 31, 2020 updates Search for TiO and Optical Nightside Emission from the Exoplanet WASP-33b https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab9e77 Physical Characterization of Interstellar Comet 2I/2019 Q4 (Borisov) https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab9df8 Integrating Machine Learning for Planetary Science: Perspectives for the Next Decade https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.15129 A transition between the hot and the ultra-hot Jupiter atmospheres https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.15287 Atmospheric Dynamics of Hot Giant Planets and Brown Dwarfs https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.15363 LBT transmission spectroscopy of HAT-P-12b: confirmation of a cloudy atmosphere with no significant alkali features https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.15485 Exoplanets Sciences with Nulling Interferometers and a Single-Mode Fiber-Fed Spectrograph https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.15529 Colors of an Earth-like exoplanet — Temporal flux and polarization signals of the Earth https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.15624
July 30, 2020 updates PTFO 8-8695: Two Stars, Two Signals, No Planet https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab9e73 Analytic Stability Maps of Unknown Exoplanet Companions for Imaging Prioritization https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab9b21 Exploring the Atmospheric Dynamics of the Extreme Ultrahot Jupiter KELT-9b Using TESS Photometry https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aba2cb Hurricane Genesis is Favorable on Terrestrial Exoplanets Orbiting Late-type M Dwarf Stars https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aba0b9 Laboratory Demonstration of Spatial Linear Dark Field Control For Imaging Extrasolar Planets in Reflected Light https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.14413 Architectures of Exoplanetary Systems: Eccentricity and Mutual Inclination Distributions of AMD-Stable Planetary Systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.14473 A Volatile-Poor Formation of LHS 3844b based on its Lack of Significant Atmosphere https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.14493
July 29, 2020 updates When “Boring” Stars Flare: The Ultraviolet Activity of GJ 887, a Bright M Star Hosting Newly Discovered Planets https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/aba94a Novel instellation calculations for close-in exoplanets https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343201369_Novel_instellation_calculations_for_close-in_exoplanets The Importance of Prioritizing Exoplanet Experimental Facilities https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.13924 TESS Reveals a Short-period Sub-Neptune Sibling (HD 86226c) to a Known Long-period Giant Planet https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.13927 KELT-17: a chemically peculiar Am star and a hot-Jupiter planet https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.14210 Demarcating circulation regimes of synchronously rotating terrestrial planets within the habitable zone https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.00435
July 28, 2020 updates Low-cost precursor of an interstellar mission https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.12814 ZigZag: A Memory-Centric Rapid DNN Accelerator Design Space Exploration Framework https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.11360 The Evolutionary Track of H/He Envelopes of the Observed Population of Sub-Neptunes and Super-Earths https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab9a4d Non-detection of Helium in the Upper Atmospheres of Three Sub-Neptune Exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.12968 Dynamical evolution of two-planet systems and its connection with white dwarf atmospheric pollution https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.13009 Bayesian Dynamic Mapping of an Exo-Earth from Photometric Variability https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.13096 Observing transiting exoplanets with the MicroObservatory: 43 new transit light curves of the hot Jupiter HAT-P-32b https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.13381 Efficiency of tidal dissipation in slowly rotating fully convective stars or planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.13392 Detection of Na in WASP-21b’s lower and upper atmosphere https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.13429 Unified simulations of planetary formation and atmospheric evolution II: Rapid disk clearing by photoevaporation yields low-mass super-Earth atmospheres https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.13717 EUV irradiation of exoplanet atmospheres occurs on Gyr timescales https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.13731 Zodiacal Exoplanets in Time. XI. The Orbit and Radiation Environment of the Young M Dwarf-Hosted Planet K2-25b https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.12701 Planetary candidates transiting cool dwarf stars from Campaigns 12 to 15 of K2 https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.12744 The Habitable-zone Planet Finder Reveals A High Mass and a Low Obliquity for the Young Neptune K2-25b https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.12766
July 27, 2020 updates Identifying Exoplanets Using Deep Learning and Predicting Their Likelihood of Habitability https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-15-5243-4_34 Alfnoor: A Retrieval Simulation of the Ariel Target List https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab9a53 Limits on the orbits of possible exomoons around Kepler giant planets in the habitable zone https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0032063319300182 Thermal and orbital evolution of low-mass exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.12459 Exobodies in Our Back Yard: Science from Missions to Nearby Interstellar Objects https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.12480 Habitability of M dwarfs is a problem for the traditional SETI https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.12645
July 23, 2020 updates Comments on the contending hypotheses about the origin of life https://web.ist.utl.pt/orfeu.bertolami/Comments_Origin_Life_2020.pdf Possible Atmospheric Diversity of Low Mass Exoplanets – Some Central Aspects https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-020-00716-4 Transits of Known Planets Orbiting a Naked-Eye Star https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.10995 Effect of Sea-ice Drift on the Onset of Snowball Climate on Rapidly Rotating Aqua-planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.11179 Constraining the oblateness of transiting planets with photometry and spectroscopy https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.11221 Orbital period modulation in hot Jupiter systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.11264 A New Method For Studying Exoplanet Atmospheres Using Planetary Infrared Excess https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.11438 Relaying Swarms of Low-Mass Interstellar Probes https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.11554 Orbital misalignment of the super-Earth π Men c with the spin of its star https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.11564 Solar One: A Proposal for The First Crewed Interstellar Spacecraft https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.11474
July 22, 2020 updates Formation of Planetary Populations III: Core Composition & Atmospheric Evaporation https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa2087/5874897 Two Directly Imaged, Wide-orbit Giant Planets around the Young, Solar Analog TYC 8998-760-1 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aba27e Analysis of Near 2:1 Mean-motion Resonance for Kepler-9b and c https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0275106220300345 The Case for an Early Solar Binary Companion https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.10339 Enabling Effective Exoplanet / Planetary Collaborative Science https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.10549 The Interiors of Uranus and Neptune: Current Understanding and Open Questions https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.10783 Ultra-short-period Planets are Stable Against Tidal Inspiral https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.10944
July 21, 2020 updates Astrobiology and Cuatro Ciénegas Basin as an Analog of Early Earth https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-46087-7 Directed Panspermia: Synthetic DNA in bioforming planets https://researchoutreach.org/articles/directed-panspermia-synthetic-dna-bioforming-planets/ A torus-shaped solar sail accelerated via thermal desorption of coating https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0273117720304750 Exocomets from a Solar System Perspective https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.09155 Exoplanets in our Backyard: A report from an interdisciplinary community workshop and a call to combined action https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.09231 Detecting Exoplanets Using Eclipsing Binaries as Natural Starshades https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.09623 Estimating survival probability using the terrestrial extinction history for the search for extraterrestrial life https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.09904 The search for disks or planetary objects around directly imaged companions: A candidate around DH Tau B https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.10097 A Super-Earth Orbiting an Extremely Inactive Host Star https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.10262
July 20, 2020 updates Magnetic levitational bioassembly of 3D tissue construct in space https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/29/eaba4174 NGTS-11 b (TOI-1847 b): A Transiting Warm Saturn Recovered from a TESS Single-transit Event https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab9eb9 A significant mutual inclination between the planets within the π Mensae system https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.08549 Exogeoscience and Its Role in Characterizing Exoplanet Habitability and the Detectability of Life https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.08665 The influence of bulk composition on long-term interior-atmosphere evolution of terrestrial exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.09021
July 17, 2020 updates NASA delays JWST launch by seven months https://spacenews.com/nasa-delays-jwst-launch-by-seven-months/ Exoplanet Transients: Possible Variations in the Limb-Darkening Coefficients of Eclipsed Stars at Short Time Intervals https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063772920080016 New Photometric Analysis of Hot Jupiter: WASP-135b https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1384107620300506 K2-280b — a low density warm sub-Saturn around a mildly evolved star https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.07939
July 16, 2020 updates EXPRES. I. HD 3651 as an Ideal RV Benchmark https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab99c9 Global Analysis of the TRAPPIST Ultra-Cool Dwarf Transit Survey https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.07278 GJ 3470 c: A Saturn-like Exoplanet Candidate in the Habitable Zone of GJ 3470 https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.07373 The origins of nearly coplanar, non-resonant systems of close-in super-Earths https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.07385 Role of the impact parameter in exoplanet transmission spectroscopy https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.07716 ExoTiC-ISM: A Python package for marginalised exoplanet transit parameters across a grid of systematic instrument models https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.07828
July 15, 2020 updates A Rayleigh-Ritz-method-based approach to computing seismic normal modes in rotating terrestrial planets https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.11082 The SPHERE infrared survey for exoplanets (SHINE). III. The demographics of young giant exoplanets below 300 au with SPHERE https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.06573 Hidden Worlds: Dynamical Architecture Predictions of Undetected Planets in Multi-planet Systems and Applications to TESS Systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.06745 KMT-2019-BLG-2073: Fourth Free-Floating-Planet Candidate with θE<10μas https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.06870 Stellar Oblateness versus Distant Giants in Exciting Kepler Planet Mutual Inclinations https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.06991 Will Gravitational Waves Discover the First Extra-Galactic Planetary System? https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.07010 A warm Jupiter transiting an M dwarf: A TESS single transit event confirmed with the Habitable-zone Planet Finder https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.07098 HATS-37Ab and HATS-38b: Two Transiting Hot Neptunes in the Desert https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.07135
July 14, 2020 updates Interstellar Probe: The Next Step https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020EGUGA..22.6119M/abstract Interstellar Probe: Pushing the Frontier of Space Science https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020EGUGA..2219605B/abstract Optomechanics of a stable diffractive axicon light sail https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjp/s13360-020-00542-1 On the survival of resonant and non-resonant planetary systems in star clusters https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa2047/5870702 Detectability of Thermal Emission from Sub-Relativistic Objects https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.04892 Predicting the long-term stability of compact multiplanet systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.06521 HAT-P-58b — HAT-P-64b: Seven Planets Transiting Bright Stars https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.05528 The New Generation Planetary Population Synthesis (NGPPS). I. Bern global model of planet formation and evolution, model tests, and emerging planetary systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.05561 The New Generation Planetary Population Synthesis (NGPPS). II. Planetary population of solar-like stars and overview of statistical results https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.05562 The New Generation Planetary Population Synthesis (NGPPS). III. Warm super-Earths and cold Jupiters: a weak occurrence correlation, but a strong architecture-composition link https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.05563 A Fast, 2D Gaussian Process Method Based on Celerite: Applications to Transiting Exoplanet Discovery and Characterization https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.05799 Search for helium in the upper atmosphere of the hot Jupiter WASP-127 b using Gemini/Phoenix https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.06216 A precise architecture characterization of the π Men planetary system https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.06410 The role of clouds on the depletion of methane and water dominance in the transmission spectra of irradiated exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.06562
July 13, 2020 updates Three short-period Jupiters from TESS – HIP 65Ab, TOI-157b, and TOI-169b https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/07/aa37941-20/aa37941-20.html Original Research by Young Twinkle Students (Orbyts): Ephemeris Refinement of Transiting Exoplanets II https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/aba42b Evolution of the Earth’s polar outflow from mid‐Archean to present https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020JA027837 Monte Carlo estimation of the probability of causal contacts between communicating civilisations https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.03597 KMT-2018-BLG-0748Lb: Sub-Saturn Microlensing Planet Orbiting an Ultracool Host https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.05204 Water transport throughout the TRAPPIST-1 system: the role of planetesimals https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.05366 Habitability Models for Planetary Sciences https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.05491 Detection of Fe\,{\sc i} Emission in the Day-side Spectrum of WASP-33b https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.05508 The EBLM project. VII. Spin-orbit alignment for the circumbinary planet host EBLM J0608-59 A/TOI-1338 A https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.05514 The dichotomy of atmospheric escape in AU Mic b https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.13606
July 10, 2020 updates The Law of Extraterrestrial Resources http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2020.73.225 Avalon’s Semi-Closed Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS) Part I – Crops for Food and Soil Production http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2020.73.198 Avalon’s Semi-Closed Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS) Part 2 – Ventilation for Heat and Water Transport and Management http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2020.73.210 Avalon’s Semi-Closed Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS) Part 3 – Crops to Extend the Diet and Produce Wood Fiber and Chemicals http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2020.73.221 Atmospheric Erosion by Giant Impacts onto Terrestrial Planets: A Scaling Law for any Speed, Angle, Mass, and Density https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.04321 How Jupiters save or destroy inner Neptunes around evolved stars https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.04337 The Dynamic Proto-atmospheres around Low-Mass Planets with Eccentric Orbits https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.04398
July 9, 2020 updates Planetary mass–radius relations across the galaxy https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/07/aa36916-19/aa36916-19.html The corona of GJ 1151 in the context of star-planet interaction https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa1982/5869252 Persistent Starspot Signals on M Dwarfs: Multiwavelength Doppler Observations with the Habitable-zone Planet Finder and Keck/HIRES https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab989f Very wide companion fraction from Gaia DR2: a weak or no enhancement for hot jupiter hosts, and a strong enhancement for contact binaries https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.03688 Investigating Extra-solar Planetary System Qatar-1 through Transit Observations https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.03753 Sensitivity of the Atmospheric Water Cycle within the Habitable Zone of a Tidally-Locked, Earth-like Exoplanet https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.04172
July 8, 2020 updates A systematic study of CO2 planetary atmospheres and their link to the stellar environment https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa1929/5868818 Cometary panspermia and origin of life? https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0065266020300067 The efficient Lamarckian spread of life in the cosmos https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0065266020300079 Photonic Metasurfaces as Relativistic Light Sails for Doppler‐Broadened Stable Beam‐Riding and Radiative Cooling https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/lpor.201900311 Arid or Cloudy: Characterizing the Atmosphere of the super-Earth 55 Cancri e using High-Resolution Spectroscopy https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.03115 A review of possible planetary atmospheres in the TRAPPIST-1 system https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.03334 Habitability of the early Earth: Liquid water under a faint young Sun facilitated by strong tidal heating due to a nearby Moon https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.03423 Sailing Towards the Stars Close to the Speed of Light https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.03530 The Cathedral and the Starship: Learning from the Middle Ages for Future Long-Duration Projects https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.03654 Terrestrial Planets Comparative Climatology (TPCC) mission concept https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.03049 A search for rotation periods in 1000 TESS objects of interest https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.03079
July 7, 2020 updates The GAPS programme at TNG – XXII. The GIARPS view of the extended helium atmosphere of HD 189733 b accounting for stellar activity https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/07/aa37644-20/aa37644-20.html Evidence for a high mutual inclination between the cold Jupiter and transiting super Earth orbiting π Men https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.01871 High-resolution Spectra for a Wide Range of Habitable Zone Planets around Sun-like Stars https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.02420 Hurricanes on Tidally Locked Terrestrial Planets: Fixed SST Experiments https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.02560 The Exoplanet Perspective on Future Ice Giant Exploration https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.02651 A temperature inversion with atomic iron in the ultra-hot dayside atmosphere of WASP-189b https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.02716 The GTC exoplanet transit spectroscopy survey XI. Possible detection of Rayleigh scattering in the atmosphere of the Saturn-mass planet WASP-69b https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.02741 On the Chemical Abundance of HR 8799 and the Planet c https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.02810
July 6, 2020 updates Is the Faint Young Sun Problem for Earth Solved? https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-020-00711-9 Dust size and spatial distributions in debris discs: predictions for exozodiacal dust dragged in from an exo-Kuiper belt https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.01313 Losing Oceans: The Effects of Composition on the Thermal Component of Impact-driven Atmospheric Loss https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.01446 Impact of Tides on the Potential for Exoplanets to Host Exomoons https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.01487 Hot Exoplanet Atmospheres Resolved with Transit Spectroscopy (HEARTS) V. Detection of sodium on the bloated super-Neptune WASP-166b https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.01783
July 3, 2020 updates A transition between the hot and the ultra-hot Jupiter atmospheres https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/07/aa37394-19/aa37394-19.html The Hubble Space Telescope PanCET Program: An Optical to Infrared Transmission Spectrum of HAT-P-32Ab https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab96cb The Star Tug: An active stellar engine capable of accelerating a star to relativistic velocities https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576520304239 The K2 & TESS Synergy I: Updated Ephemerides and Parameters for K2-114, K2-167, K2-237, & K2-261 https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.00678 Tracing bulk elemental ratios in exoplanetary atmospheres with TiO chemistry https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.01066 Characterization of the K2-38 planetary system. Unraveling one of the densest planets known to date https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.01081
July 2, 2020 updates History of the Plurality of Worlds https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-41448-1 A remnant planetary core in the hot-Neptune desert https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2421-7 The Venus Life Equation https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.00105 JWST Transit Spectra II: Constraining Aerosol Species, Particle-size Distributions, Temperature, and Metallicity for Cloudy Exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.00109 Tess asteroseismology of the known planet host star λ2 Fornacis https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.00497
July 1, 2020 updates Superrotation in Planetary Atmospheres https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-020-00703-9 A multiple planet system of super-Earths orbiting the brightest red dwarf star GJ887 https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.16372 Analysis of Close Stellar Encounters with the Solar System https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.16555 The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs: Convective shift and starspot constraints from chromatic radial velocities https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.16608 Dyson Spheres https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.16734 Dust Populations in the Iconic Vega Planetary System Resolved by ALMA https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.16257 Scaling K2. III. Comparable Planet Occurrence in the FGK Samples of Campaign 5 and Kepler https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.16261
June 30, 2020 updates Variability of transit light curves of Kepler objects of interest https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/06/aa37303-19/aa37303-19.html OGLE-2018-BLG-1269Lb: A Jovian Planet With A Bright, I=16 Host https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.15774
June 29, 2020 updates Obliquity of an Earth-like planet from frequency modulation of its direct imaged lightcurve: mock analysis from general circulation model simulation https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.11437 Probing Transit Timing Variation and Its Possible Origin with 12 New Transits of TrES-3b https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab9818 Evryscope and K2 Constraints on TRAPPIST-1 Superflare Occurrence and Planetary Habitability https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.14712 The path to instability in multi-planetary systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.14903
June 26, 2020 updates A multiplanet system of super-Earths orbiting the brightest red dwarf star GJ 887 https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6498/1477 Dynamical Packing in the Habitable Zone: The Case of Beta CVn https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.13962 ARES III: Unveiling the Two Faces of KELT-7 b with HST WFC3 https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.14199 The GAPS Programme at TNG — XXIV. An eccentric Neptune-mass planet near the inner edge of the BD-11 4672 habitable zone https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.14393 Experimental validation of coronagraphic focal-plane wavefront sensing for future segmented space telescopes https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.14494 Near Mean Motion Resonance of Terrestrial Planet Pair Induced by Giant Planet: Application to Kepler-68 System https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.14506 TOI-1728b: The Habitable-zone Planet Finder confirms a warm super Neptune orbiting an M dwarf host https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.14546 In situ exo-planet transit lightcurve modelling with the Chroma+ suite https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.14586
June 25, 2020 updates NASA expects to cover JWST launch slip with budget reserves https://spacenews.com/nasa-expects-to-cover-jwst-launch-slip-with-budget-reserves/ Alien Civilization Calculator https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/alien-civilization Large H2O solubility in dense silica and its implications for the interiors of water-rich planets https://www.pnas.org/content/117/18/9747 Photochemistry of Anoxic Abiotic Habitable Planet Atmospheres: Impact of New H2O Cross Sections https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab9363 Analysis of HAT-P-23 b, Qatar-1 b, WASP-2 b, and WASP-33 b with an Optimized EXOplanet Transit Interpretation Code https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.13324 Atmospheric Regimes and Trends on Exoplanets and Brown Dwarfs https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.13384 EarthFinder Probe Mission Concept Study: Characterizing nearby stellar exoplanet systems with Earth-mass analogs for future direct imaging https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.13428 Breakthrough Listen Search for Technosignatures Towards the Kepler-160 System https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.13789 TRAPPIST-1: Global Results of the Spitzer Exploration Science Program {\it Red Worlds} https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.13826
June 24, 2020 updates Heavy-metal Jupiters by major mergers: metallicity vs. mass for giant planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.12500 Risks for Life on Proxima b from Sterilizing Asteroid Impacts https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.12503 Studies of Exoplanets with Candidate TOI 717.01 and Confirmed HAT-P-3b https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.12658 The ARCiS framework for Exoplanet Atmospheres: Modelling Philosophy and Retrieval https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.12821 Exploiting periodic orbits as dynamical clues for Kepler and K2 systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.12895 Exomoon Candidates from Transit Timing Variations: Six Kepler systems with TTVs explainable by photometrically unseen exomoons https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.12997
June 23, 2020 updates Updated Deterministic Radiation Transport for Future Deep Space Missions https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2214552420300456 Overview – The Breakthrough Listen Exotic Target Catalog http://seti.berkeley.edu/exotica/ Searching for the near-infrared counterpart of Proxima c using multi-epoch high-contrast SPHERE data at VLT https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/06/aa37594-20/aa37594-20.html Hot Exoplanet Atmospheres Resolved with Transit Spectroscopy (HEARTS) IV. A spectral inventory of atoms and molecules in the high-resolution transmission spectrum of WASP-121 b https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.11308 Distinguishing between wet and dry atmospheres of TRAPPIST-1 e and f https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.11349 Beyond a pale blue dot : how to search for possible bio-signatures on earth-like planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.11451 The impact of exoplanets’ measured parameters on the inferred internal structure https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.12353
June 22, 2020 updates Atmospheric Escape From TOI-700 d: Venus versus Earth Analogs https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab982f/meta CfA Scientists Collaborate on New Study to Search the Universe for Signs of Technological Civilizations https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2020-12 When more is less: The P‐type binary habitability paradox https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.202013758 Predictions of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Galactic Exoplanet Survey II: Free-Floating Planet Detection Rates https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.10760 Simulations Predicting the Ability of Multi-Color Simultaneous Photometry to Distinguish TESS Candidate Exoplanets from False Positives https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.10765 Spin-orbit alignment of the β Pictoris planetary system https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.10784 A Mini-Neptune and a Venus-Zone Planet in the Radius Valley Orbiting the Nearby M2-dwarf TOI-1266: Validation with the Habitable-zone Planet Finder https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.11180
June 19, 2020 updates Does intelligent life exist on other planets? Technosignatures may hold new clues https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/technosignatures-hold-clues-to-advanced-extraterrestrial-life-441472/ Testing Earthlike Atmospheric Evolution on Exo-Earths through Oxygen Absorption: Required Sample Sizes and the Advantage of Age-based Target Selection https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab8fad Giant Planet Scatterings and Collisions: Hydrodynamics, Merger-Ejection Branching Ratio, and Properties of the Remnants https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.10067 Influence of the Sun-like magnetic cycle on exoplanetary atmospheric escape https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.10634 Search for TiO and Optical Night-side Emission from the Exoplanet WASP-33b https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.10743
June 18, 2020 updates Forecasting Rates of Volcanic Activity on Terrestrial Exoplanets and Implications for Cryovolcanic Activity on Extrasolar Ocean Worlds https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ab9504 The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: A 3.95–8.00 GHz Search for Radio Technosignatures in the Restricted Earth Transit Zone https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab9361 An Update on the Student Exoplanet Programme https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.09552 The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Variability of the He I line at 10830 Å https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.09372 Retrieving scattering clouds and disequilibrium chemistry in the atmosphere of HR 8799e https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.09394 GJ 273: On the formation, dynamical evolution and habitability of a planetary system hosted by an M dwarf at 3.75 parsec https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.09403 Small Sensitivity of the Simulated Climate of Tidally Locked Aquaplanets to Model Resolution https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.09579 TESS unveils the optical phase curve of KELT-1b. Thermal emission and ellipsoidal variation from the brown dwarf companion, and activity from the star https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.09750 Extending the Breakthrough Listen nearby star survey to other stellar objects in the field https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.09756
June 17, 2020 updates Principles of Pulsar Space Navigation https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063772920070057 Searching for thermal inversion agents in the transmission spectrum of KELT-20b/MASCARA-2b: detection of neutral iron and ionised calcium H&K lines https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/496/1/504/5856007 Simultaneous Optical Transmission Spectroscopy of a Terrestrial, Habitable-zone Exoplanet with Two Ground-based Multiobject Spectrographs https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab935f Directly imaged exoplanets in reflected starlight. The importance of knowing the planet radius https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.08784 Formation of aqua planets with water of nebular origin: Effects of water enrichment on the structure and mass of captured atmospheres of terrestrial planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.09068
June 16, 2020 updates A Moving Target—Revising the Mass of Proxima Centauri c https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab9ca9 A Geologically Robust Procedure For Observing Rocky Exoplanets to Ensure that Detection of Atmospheric Oxygen is an Earth-Like Biosignature https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.07403 Tentative Evidence for Water Vapor in the Atmosphere of the Neptune-Size Exoplanet HD 106315 c https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.07444 TATOO: a tidal-chronology standalone tool to estimate the age of massive close-in planetary systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.07880 Destruction of molecular hydrogen ice and Implications for 1I/2017 U1 (`Oumuamua) https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.08088 Keeping M-Earths Habitable in the Face of Atmospheric Loss by Sequestering Water in the Mantle https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.08514 A Quantitative Assessment of Communicating Extra-Terrestrial Intelligent Civilizations in the Galaxy and the Case of FRB-like Signals https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.08493
June 15, 2020 updates Resonance locking in giant planets indicated by the rapid orbital expansion of Titan https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.06854 JWST Transit Spectra I: Exploring Potential Biases and Opportunities in Retrievals of Tidally-locked Hot Jupiters with Clouds and Hazes https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.06899 Three-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations of the upper atmosphere of π Men c: comparison with Lyα transit observations https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.06959 π Earth: a 3.14 days Earth-sized Planet from \textit{K2}’s Kitchen served warm by the SPECULOOS Team https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.07308
June 12, 2020 updates Gravity Assist: Puffy Planets, Powerful Telescopes, with Knicole Colon https://www.nasa.gov/mediacast/gravity-assist-puffy-planets-powerful-telescopes-with-knicole-colon Neutral Cr and V in the atmosphere of ultra hot jupiter WASP-121 b https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.05995 Is the faint young Sun problem for Earth solved? https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.06265 Unresolved Binary Exoplanet Host Stars Fit as Single Stars: Effects on the Stellar Parameters https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.06528 Coevolution of primitive methane cycling ecosystems and early Earth atmosphere and climate https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.06433
June 11, 2020 updates NASA confirms JWST will miss March 2021 launch date https://spacenews.com/nasa-confirms-jwst-will-miss-march-2021-launch-date/ Information Content of JWST NIRSpec Transmission Spectra of Warm Neptunes https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab9176 Coupled Thermal and Compositional Evolution of Photoevaporating Planet Envelopes https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab873f Curvature Invariants for Wormholes and Warped Spacetimes https://search.proquest.com/openview/cb85487fa25cb3423e71120df0170053/1 Using the Interstellar Probe to Decipher Exoplanet Signatures of Our Planets from the Very Local Interstellar Medium https://surveygizmoresponseuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/fileuploads/15647/4139225/196-8e2d83e91e913e0e21828742ad517df7_ISP_Exoplanet_White_Paper_v2.pdf Assessing Spectra and Thermal Inversions due to TiO in Hot Jupiter Atmospheres https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.04807 Indications for very high metallicity and absence of methane for the eccentric exo-Saturn WASP-117b https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.05382 Planetary thermal evolution models with tectonic transitions https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.05654 Architectures of Exoplanetary Systems. II: An Increase in Inner Planetary System Occurrence Towards Later Spectral Types for Kepler’s FGK Dwarfs https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.04348
June 10, 2020 updates Mineral dust increases the habitability of terrestrial planets but confounds biomarker detection https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-16543-8 Sensitivity of the Atmospheric Water Cycle within the Habitable Zone of a Tidally Locked, Earth-like Exoplanet https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab9102 Inertial Modes of a Freely Rotating Ellipsoidal Planet and Their Relation to Nutations https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ab93c8 Comparing Approximate Bayesian Computation with the Poisson-Likelihood Method for Exoplanet Occurrence Rates https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab9a3c Radioprotective effects of induced astronaut torpor and advanced propulsion systems during deep space travel https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2214552420300407
June 9, 2020 updates Planetary mass-radius relations across the galaxy https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.03601 Project Lyra: Catching 1I/’Oumuamua — Using Laser Sailcraft in 2030 https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.03891 Effects of Thermal Emission on the Transmission Spectra of Hot Jupiters https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.04175 Narrow-Band Signal Localization for SETI on Noisy Synthetic Spectrogram Data https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.04362 No evidence for interstellar planetesimals trapped in the Solar System https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.04534
June 8, 2020 updates A Complex Life Habitable Zone Based On Lipid Solubility Theory https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-64436-z Transit least-squares survey – III. A 1.9 R⊕ transit candidate in the habitable zone of Kepler-160 and a nontransiting planet characterized by transit-timing variations https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/06/aa36929-19/aa36929-19.html An objective Bayesian analysis of life’s early start and our late arrival https://www.pnas.org/content/117/22/11995 Atmospheric Escape Processes and Planetary Atmospheric Evolution https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2019JA027639 Ignition and burn in a hybrid nuclear fuel for a pulsed rocket engine https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576520302083
June 5, 2020 updates Transiting Exoplanet Discovery Using Machine Learning Techniques: A Survey https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12145-020-00464-7 Exoplanet Detection and Its Dependence on Stochastic Sampling of the Stellar Initial Mass Function https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab8e39 WISEA J083011.95+283716.0: A Missing Link Planetary-mass Object https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab8d25 Transit Analysis of Exoplanets TrES-5 b and WASP-43 b with the EXOplanet Transit Interpretation Code https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab98f5 Exoplanet secondary atmosphere loss and revival https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.02589
June 4, 2020 updates Fear the Shadows of the Giants: On Secular Perturbations in Circumstellar Habitable Zones of Double Stars https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab9104 Hints of a Population of Solar System Analog Planets from ALMA https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab94a8 Atmosphere loss in planet-planet collisions https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01881 Giant impacts stochastically change the internal pressures of terrestrial planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01992 Transit least-squares survey — III. A 1.9R⊕ transit candidate in the habitable zone of Kepler-160 and a nontransiting planet characterized by transit-timing variations https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.02123
June 3, 2020 updates A PSF-based Approach to TESS High quality data Of Stellar clusters (PATHOS) – II. Search for exoplanets in open clusters of the southern ecliptic hemisphere and their frequency https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa1465/5850378 Maunder’s Work on Planetary Habitability in 1913: Early Use of the term “Habitable Zone” and a “Drake Equation” Calculation https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab9831 Outburst and Splitting of Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01242 Four Jovian planets around low-luminosity giant stars observed by the EXPRESS and PPPS https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01277 Estimation of the Total Mass of 10 Exoplanets and their Host Stars Based on the Primary Transit Method https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01583 Radius Study of Ten Transiting Hot Jupiter Exoplanets with Ground-Based Observations https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01591 Period Study by the Transit Method with Ground-Based Observations https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01587 The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Measuring precise radial velocities in the near infrared: the example of the super-Earth CD Cet b https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01684 Theoretical Studies of Comets in the 55 Cancri System https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01711 The Fate of Binary Stars Hosting Planets upon Interaction with Sgr A* Black hole https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01807 Reworking the SETI Paradox: METI’s Place on the Continuum of Astrobiological Signaling https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01167
June 2, 2020 updates Challenges in Scientific Data Communication from Low-Mass Interstellar Probes https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.07778 On the role of reduced wind mass-loss rate in enabling exoplanets to shape planetary nebulae https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.09077 Near-Infrared Transit Photometry of Extra-Solar Planet HAT-P-54b https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.00220 Probing Transit Timing Variation and its Possible Origin with Twelve New Transits of TrES-3b https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.00599 Masses for the seven planets in K2-32 and K2-233. Four diverse planets in resonant chain and the first young rocky worlds https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01102
June 1, 2020 updates Near-Term Self-replicating Probes–A Concept Design https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.12303 Z-pinch fusion https://aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/5.0004228 Coma Anisotropy and the Rotation Pole of Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab9228 Tides on other Earths: implications for exoplanet and palaeo‐tidal simulations https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2019GL085746 Aquatic Biospheres On Temperate Planets Around Sun-like Stars And M-dwarfs https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14387 Mineral cloud and hydrocarbon haze particles in the atmosphere of the hot Jupiter JWST target WASP-43b https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14595
May 29, 2020 updates Investigating the Development of Hot Jupiters and Rogue Planets through Universe Sandbox 2 https://www.pcs.cnu.edu/~dgore/Capstone/files/KerrT.pdf A linear formation-flying astronomical interferometer in low Earth orbit https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/publications-of-the-astronomical-society-of-australia/article/linear-formationflying-astronomical-interferometer-in-low-earth-orbit/51EB0695D4A4B2A0912000DB527B657F Constraints on Metastable Helium in the Atmospheres of WASP-69b and WASP-52b with Ultranarrowband Photometry https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab8e34 Demonstrating high-precision photometry with a CubeSat: ASTERIA observations of 55 Cancri e https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14155 Scheduling ESPRESSO follow-up of TESS Targets. I. Myopic versus non-myopic sampling https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14008 Enrichment of the HR 8799 planets by minor bodies and dust https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.13562 Following the TraCS of exoplanets with Pan-Planets: Wendelstein-1b and Wendelstein-2b https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.13560 Obliquity Constraints on an Extrasolar Planetary-Mass Companion https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.11131 The Effect of Substellar Continent Size on Ocean Dynamics of Proxima Centauri b https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14185
May 28, 2020 updates Qualitative classification of extraterrestrial civilizations https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.13221 Evidence that 1I/2017 U1 (`Oumuamua) was composed of molecular hydrogen ice https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.12932 Implications of different stellar spectra for the climate of tidally-locked Earth-like exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.13002 Detection of exomoons in simulated light curves with a regularized convolutional neural network https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.13035 Atmospheric Escape From TOI-700 d: Venus vs. Earth Analogs https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.13190
May 26, 2020 updates On the use of Dyson-Structures for Prevention of Asteroid Catastrophes https://osf.io/qtmdk/ Highlights of Exoplanetary Science from Spitzer https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.11331 The Space Environment and Atmospheric Joule Heating of the Habitable Zone Exoplanet TOI700-d https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.11587 Revisiting Proxima with ESPRESSO https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.12114 Atmospheric circulation of brown dwarfs and directly imaged exoplanets driven by cloud radiative feedback: effects of rotation https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.12152
May 25, 2020 updates Aerosol composition of hot giant exoplanets dominated by silicates and hydrocarbon hazes https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1114-3 CRaTER Observations and Permissible Mission Duration for Human Operations in Deep Space https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2214552420300341 Future interstellar rockets may use laser-induced annihilation reactions for relativistic drive https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576520303179 Possible Interstellar meteoroids detected by the Canadian Meteor Orbit Radar https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.10896 K2-HERMES II. Planet-candidate properties from K2 Campaigns 1-13 https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.10959 The HST PanCET Program: An Optical to Infrared Transmission Spectrum of HAT-P-32Ab https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.11293
May 22, 2020 updates The Planetary Luminosity Problem: “Missing Planets” and the Observational Consequences of Episodic Accretion https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab8388 Oceanographic Considerations for Exoplanet Life Detection https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab88c9 PTFO 8-8695: Two Stars, Two Signals, No Planet https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.10253 Tidal evolution of exoplanetary systems hosting Potentially Habitable Exoplanets. The cases of LHS-1140 b-c and K2-18 b-c https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.10318
May 21, 2020 updates NASA renames WFIRST space telescope after pioneering woman astronomer https://spacenews.com/nasa-renames-wfirst-space-telescope-after-pioneering-woman-astronomer/ Bayesian Approach for Determining Microlens System Properties with High-angular-resolution Follow-up Imaging https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab8adf Persistent starspot signals on M dwarfs: multi-wavelength Doppler observations with the Habitable-zone Planet Finder and Keck/HIRES https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.09657 Detailed chemical compositions of planet hosting stars: I. Exploration of possible planet signatures https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.09846 The correlation between photometric variability and radial velocity jitter, based on TESS and HARPS observations https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.10105 Exploring formation scenarios for the exomoon candidate Kepler 1625b I https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.10138 Retrograde orbits excess among observable interstellar objects https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.10236
May 20, 2020 updates Galactic Cosmic Ray Shielding Using Spherical Field-Reversed Array of Superconducting Coils https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.A34710 Ultra-thin sail could speed journey to other star systems https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Ultra-thin_sail_could_speed_journey_to_other_star_systems The Chiral Puzzle of Life https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab8dc6 A Starshot Communication Downlink https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.08940 The Effect of Seafloor Weathering on Planetary Habitability https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.09092 A trampoline effect occurring in the stages of planetary reseeding https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.09360 ARES II: Characterising the Hot Jupiters WASP-127 b, WASP-79 b and WASP-62 b with HST https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.09615 Confirmation of water emission in the dayside spectrum of the ultrahot Jupiter WASP-121b https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.09631
May 19, 2020 updates An objective Bayesian analysis of life’s early start and our late arrivalhttps://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/05/12/1921655117 Artificial Gravity in Interstellar Travelhttps://zenodo.org/record/3747351 Planetary Spin and Obliquity from Mergershttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.07718 Atmospheric Escape of Close-in Giants around Hot Stars: Far-Ultraviolet Radiation and Photoelectric Heating Effecthttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.08676 Super-Rayleigh Slopes in Transmission Spectra of Exoplanets Generated by Photochemical Hazehttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.08880
May 18, 2020 updates Space, Time, and Alienshttps://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-41614-0 Inverse design of lightweight broadband reflector for efficient lightsail propulsionhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.04840 A Gas Giant Planet in the OGLE-2006-BLG-284L Stellar Binary Systemhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.07199 PLATON II: New Capabilities And A Comprehensive Retrieval on HD 189733b Transit and Eclipse Datahttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.09513
May 15, 2020 updates A Numerical Method for Determining the Elements of Circumbinary Orbits and Its Application to Circumbinary Planets and the Satellites of Pluto-Charonhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.06498 Two examples of how to use observations of terrestrial planets orbiting in temperate orbits around low mass stars to test key concepts of planetary habitabilityhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.06512 A possible transit of a disintegrating exoplanet in the nearby multiplanet system DMPP-1https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.07086
May 14, 2020 updates Advances on studying optical forces: optical manipulation, optical cooling and light induced dynamicshttps://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6463/ab8512 Orbital Stability of Exomoons and Submoons with Applications to Kepler 1625b-Ihttps://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab89a7 The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. The He I infrared triplet lines in PHOENIX models of M2-3 V starshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.06246
May 13, 2020 updates Predictions of cognitive detriments from galactic cosmic ray exposures to astronauts on exploration missionshttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2214552419301221 The GAPS programme at TNG XXII. The GIARPS view of the extended helium atmosphere of HD189733 b accounting for stellar activityhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.05676 2I/Borisov and the Jets: Constraints on the Spin-Pole Orientation, Jet Morphology and Rotation of Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov with Deep HST Imaginghttps://arxiv.org/abs/1912.07386
May 12, 2020 updates Growth on Carbohydrates from Carbonaceous Meteorites Alters the Immunogenicity of Environment-Derived Bacterial Pathogenshttps://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2019.2173 A new set of atmosphere and evolution models for cool T–Y brown dwarfs and giant exoplanetshttps://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/05/aa37381-19/aa37381-19.html Earths in Other Solar Systems N-body simulations: the Role of Orbital Damping in Reproducing the Kepler Planetary Systemshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.04233 Inflation of Migrated Hot Jupitershttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.04927 An Unusual Transmission Spectrum for the Sub-Saturn KELT-11b Suggestive of a Sub-Solar Water Abundancehttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.05153
May 11, 2020 updates What is the Oxygen Isotope Composition of Venus? The Scientific Case for Sample Return from Earth’s “Sister” Planethttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-020-00669-8 What horticulture and space exploration can learn from each other: The Mission to mars initiative in the Netherlandshttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576520302988 World ships: Feasibility and Rationalehttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.04100
May 8, 2020 updates Dynamic Orbital Slingshot for Rendezvous with Interstellar Objectshttps://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2020_Phase_I_Phase_II/Dynamic_Orbital_Slingshot/ Deceleration of Interstellar Spacecraft Utilizing Antimatterhttps://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2020_Phase_I_Phase_II/Deceleration_of_Interstellar_Spacecraft_Utilizing_Antimatter/ Biosignature Surveys to Exoplanet Yields and Beyondhttps://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa1284/5834560 Design considerations for relativistic laser sailshttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576520302836 Simulating the Multi-Epoch Direct Detection Technique to Isolate the Thermal Emission of the Non-Transiting Hot Jupiter HD187123Bhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.03020 Modeling Radial Velocity Data of Resonant Planets to Infer Migration Historieshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.03034 The PHOENIX Exoplanet Retrieval Algorithm and Using H− Opacity as a Probe in Ultra-hot Jupitershttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.03056 Oxidation of the Interiors of Carbide Exoplanetshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.03175 The GAPS Programme at TNG — XXIII. HD 164922 d: a close-in super-Earth discovered with HARPS-N in a system with a long-period Saturn mass companionhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.03368
May 7, 2020 updates Cosmic Anarchy and Its Consequenceshttps://medium.com/@KevinKohlerFM/cosmic-anarchy-and-its-consequences-b1a557b1a2e3 Determining the nature of motion around Jupiter-like exoplanets using the elliptic restricted three-body problemhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0032063319304313 Photometry and Performance of SPECULOOS-Southhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.02423 UV Exoplanet Transmission Spectral Features as Probes of Metals and Rainouthttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.02528 Alkaline Exospheres of Exoplanet Systems: Evaporative Transmission Spectrahttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.02536 The Hubble PanCET program: Transit and Eclipse Spectroscopy of the Strongly Irradiated Giant Exoplanet WASP-76bhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.02568 Why do warm Neptunes present nonzero eccentricity?https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.02700
May 6, 2020 updates A Practical Guide for Selecting and Utilizing Pulsars for Galactic Navigationhttp://dses.science/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/19-A-Practical-Guide-for-Selecting-and-Utilizing-Pulsars-for-Galactic-Navigation.pdf The Italian National Project of Astrobiology—Life in Space—Origin, Presence, Persistence of Life in Space, from Molecules to Extremophileshttps://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2020.2247 A Coupled Analysis of Atmospheric Mass Loss and Tidal Evolution in XUV Irradiated Exoplanets: the TRAPPIST-1 Case Studyhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.01740 Consistently Simulating a Wide Range of Atmospheric Scenarios for K2-18b with a Flexible Radiative Transfer Modulehttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.02114 Increasing the raw contrast of VLT/SPHERE with the dark hole technique. I. Simulations and validation on the internal sourcehttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.02179 ARES I: WASP-76 b, A Tale of Two HST Spectrahttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.02374
May 5, 2020 updates Spaceship Earthhttps://www.sundance.org/projects/spaceship-earth Laboratory studies on the viability of life in H2-dominated exoplanet atmosphereshttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1069-4 Visible and near-infrared observations of interstellar comet 2I/Borisov with the 10.4-m GTC and the 3.6-m TNG telescopeshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.00786 The occurrence rate of exoplanets orbiting ultracool dwarfs as probed by K2https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.01440 Stellar impact on disequilibrium chemistry and on observed spectra of hot Jupiter atmosphereshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.01470 Microlensed Radio Emission from Exoplanetshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.01542 Testing Earth-like atmospheric evolution on exo-Earths through oxygen absorption: required sample sizes and the advantage of age-based target selectionhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.01587 Original Research By Young Twinkle Students (ORBYTS): Ephemeris Refinement of Transiting Exoplanetshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.01684 HAZMAT VI: The Evolution of Extreme Ultraviolet Radiation Emitted from Early M Starhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.01687
May 4, 2020 updates NGTS-11 b / TIC-54002556 b: A transiting warm Saturn recovered from a TESS single-transit eventhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.00006 TESS Asteroseismic Analysis of the Known Exoplanet Host Star HD 222076https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.00272 Properties and characteristics of the WFIRST H4RG-10 detectorshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.00505
May 1, 2020 updates Toward Complete Characterization: Prospects for Directly Imaging Transiting Exoplanetshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.14396 Discovery and characterization of the exoplanets WASP-148b and c. A transiting system with two interacting giant planetshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.14645 Atmospheric dynamics on terrestrial planets with eccentric orbitshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.14673 KELT-9 b’s Asymmetric TESS Transit Caused by Rapid Stellar Rotation and Spin-Orbit Misalignmenthttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.14812 Bayesian Methods for Joint Exoplanet Transit Detection and Systematic Noise Characterizationhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.14893
April 30, 2020 updates What is the Exoplanet Technologies Lab?https://www.nasa.gov/ames/exoplanet-technologies-lab Blockchain Properties for Near-Planetary, Interplanetary, and Metaplanetary Space Domainshttps://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.I010833 Toward Extremely Precise Radial Velocities. I. Simulated Solar Spectra for Testing Exoplanet Detection Algorithmshttps://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab8d44 Performance Verification of the EXtreme PREcision Spectrographhttps://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab811d Constraints on Metastable Helium in the Atmospheres of WASP-69b and WASP-52b with Ultra-Narrowband Photometryhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.13728 High-Resolution Spectral Discriminants of Ocean Loss for M Dwarf Terrestrial Exoplanetshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.13731 Mass loss rate and local thermodynamic state of KELT-9 b thermosphere from the hydrogen Balmer serieshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.13733 Chemistry of Temperate Super-Earth and Mini-Neptune Atmospheric Hazes from Laboratory Experimentshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.13794 Thermodynamic and Energetic Limits on Continental Silicate Weathering Strongly Impact the Climate and Habitability of Wet, Rocky Worldshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.14058 Scattered light may reveal the existence of ringed exoplanetshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.14121
April 29, 2020 updates Solar System Physics for Exoplanet Researchhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.13209 Mineral snowflakes on exoplanets and brown dwarfs: Effects of micro-porosity, size distributions, and particle shapehttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.13502 Aluminium oxide in the atmosphere of hot Jupiter WASP-43bhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.13679
April 28, 2020 updates Electromagnetic induction heating as a driver of volcanic activity on massive rocky planetshttps://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/04/aa37924-20/aa37924-20.html SpecPhot: A Comparison of Spectroscopic and Photometric Exoplanet Follow-Up Methodshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.12136 Properties of Sub-Neptune Atmospheres: TOI-270 Systemhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.12475 Observational features of exoplanetary synchrotron radio burstshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.12663 A He I upper atmosphere around the warm Neptune GJ 3470bhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.12812 Ions in the Thermosphere of Exoplanets: Observable Constraints Revealed by Innovative Laboratory Experimentshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.12872 K-Stacker, an algorithm to hack the orbital parameters of planets hidden in high-contrast imaging. First applications to VLT SPHERE multi-epoch observationshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.12878 Photometric Limits on the High Resolution Imaging of Exoplanets Using the Solar Gravity Lenshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.12907
April 27, 2020 updates Radiation Effects on Astronautic Fertility in Space: Deep Space Policyhttps://www.sciencepolicyjournal.org/article_1038126_jspg_16_01_01.html Pulsar Positioning System: A quest for evidence of extraterrestrial engineeringhttps://www.academia.edu/31878996/Pulsar_Positioning_System_A_quest_for_evidence_of_extraterrestrial_engineering Are we going to Alpha Centauri?https://scivpro.com/manuscript/10_32386_scivpro_000019/ E|A|S (Evolving Asteroid Starships)https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-030-33471-0_67 Tidal evolution of exoplanetary systems hosting Potentially Habitable Exoplanets. The cases of LHS-1140 b-c and K2-18 b-chttps://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa1110/5825369 The Extended Kardashev Scalehttps://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab792b Astrophysical Insights into Radial Velocity Jitter from an Analysis of 600 Planet-search Starshttps://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab855a Light-induced propulsion of graphene-on-grid sails in microgravityhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576520301582 Radiation conditions in relativistic interstellar flighthttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.10079 The multi-planet system TOI-421 — A warm Neptune and a super puffy mini-Neptune transiting a G9 V star in a visual binaryhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.10095
April 24, 2020 updates ALMA 0.88 mm Survey of Disks around Planetary-mass Companionshttps://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab818c The Impact of Planetary Rotation Rate on the Reflectance and Thermal Emission Spectrum of Terrestrial Exoplanets around Sunlike Starshttps://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab83ec Assessment of Supervised Machine Learning for Atmospheric Retrieval of Exoplanetshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.10755 TESS unveils the phase curve of WASP-33b. Characterization of the planetary atmosphere and the pulsations from the starhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.10767 TESS discovery of a super-Earth and three sub-Neptunes hosted by the bright, Sun-like star HD 108236https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.11314 Neutral Iron Emission Lines From The Day-side Of KELT-9b — The GAPS Programme With HARPS-N At TNG XXhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.11335 What’s in a name: the etymology of astrobiologyhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.11312
April 23, 2020 updates An interstellar origin for high-inclination Centaurshttps://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/494/2/2191/5822028 Why Is it So Cold in Here? Explaining the Cold Temperatures Retrieved from Transmission Spectra of Exoplanet Atmosphereshttps://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab8238 Radial-velocity variations due to meridional flows in the Sun and solar-type stars: impact on exoplanet detectabilityhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.10611
April 21, 2020 updates New HST data and modeling reveal a massive planetesimal collision around Fomalhauthttps://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/04/15/1912506117 The carbon monoxide-rich interstellar comet 2I/Borisovhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1095-2 Unusually high CO abundance of the first active interstellar comethttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1087-2 Focal Plane Wavefront Sensing with the FAST TGV Coronagraphhttps://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ab84c9 Searching for the near infrared counterpart of Proxima c using multi-epoch high contrast SPHERE data at VLThttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.06685 High-resolution Transmission Spectroscopy of MASCARA-2 b with EXPREShttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.08415 OGLE-2017-BLG-0406: Spitzer Microlens Parallax Reveals Saturn-mass Planet orbiting M-dwarf Host in the Inner Galactic Diskhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.09067 WASP-4 transit timing variation from a comprehensive set of 129 transitshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.09109
April 20, 2020 updates Cheops observes its first exoplanets and is ready for sciencehttp://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Cheops/Cheops_observes_its_first_exoplanets_and_is_ready_for_science Mitigating flicker noise in high-precision photometry I. Characterization of the noise structure, impact on the inferred transit parameters, and predictions for CHEOPS observationshttps://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/04/aa37412-19/aa37412-19.html The atmospheres of rocky exoplanets I. Outgassing of common rock and the stability of liquid waterhttps://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/04/aa36614-19/aa36614-19.html Exoplanet System Kepler-2 with comparisons to Kepler-1 and 13https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.07971 Inertial modes of a freely rotating ellipsoidal planet and their relation to nutationshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.08218 Frequency Modulation of Directly Imaged Exoplanets: Geometric Effect as a Probe of Planetary Obliquityhttps://arxiv.org/abs/1603.02898 Detectability of Molecular Signatures on TRAPPIST-1e through Transmission Spectroscopy Simulated for Future Space-Based Observatorieshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2001.01338
April 17, 2020 updates Possible Transfer of Life by Earth-Grazing Objects to Exoplanetary Systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.02235 H- and Dissociation in Ultra-hot Jupiters: A Retrieval Case Study of WASP-18b https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.07252 Colour-colour and colour-magnitude diagrams for Hot Jupiters https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.07431 Simultaneous TESS and NGTS Transit Observations of WASP-166b https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.07589 TOI-1338: TESS’ First Transiting Circumbinary Planet https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.07783 The onset of instability in resonant chains https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.07789
April 16, 2020 updates Planet-star interactions with precise transit timing. II. The radial-velocity tides and a tighter constraint on the orbital decay rate in the WASP-18 system https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.06781 Concept for the GMT High-Contrast Exoplanet Instrument GMagAO-X and the GMT High-Contrast Phasing Testbed with MagAO-X https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.06808 No consistent atmospheric absorption detected for the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-189 b https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.06859 Atmospheric stability and collapse on tidally locked rocky planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.07134 Polar planets around highly eccentric binaries are the most stable https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.07230 Survival of Primordial Planetary Atmospheres: Mass Loss from Temperate Terrestrial Planets https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.08820
April 15, 2020 updates Space, the Final Frontier: In the Scientific Pursuit of Extraterrestrial Life Away from Earth https://www.academia.edu/42678316/Space_the_Final_Frontier_In_the_Scientific_Pursuit_of_Extraterrestrial_Life_Away_from_Earth Earth-Size, Habitable Zone Planet Found Hidden in Early NASA Kepler Data https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/earth-size-habitable-zone-planet-found-hidden-in-early-nasa-kepler-data A Habitable-zone Earth-sized Planet Rescued from False Positive Status https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab84e5 Precise mass and radius of a transiting super-Earth planet orbiting the M dwarf TOI-1235: a planet in the radius gap? https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.06218 Atmospheric Characterization via Broadband Color Filters on the PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) Mission https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.06396 Planetary transits at radio wavelengths: secondary eclipses of hot Jupiter extended atmospheres https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.06528 Two transiting hot Jupiters from the WASP survey: WASP-150b and WASP-176b https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.06622 TOI-1235 b: a keystone super-Earth for testing radius valley emergence models around early M dwarfs https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.06682 Habitability is a continuous property of nature https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.06470
April 14, 2020 updates Center for Astrobiology: Toward the RNA-World in the Interstellar Medium—Detection of Urea and Search of 2-Amino-oxazole and Simple Sugars https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2019.2125 Tidal fragmentation as the origin of 1I/2017 U1 (‘Oumuamua) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1065-8 Stability analysis of three exoplanet systems https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa847/5819459 Searching the Entirety of Kepler Data. II. Occurrence Rate Estimates for FGK Stars https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.05296
April 13, 2020 updates Life Beyond the Habitable Zone https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020nova.pres.6280K/abstract Transit Duration Variations in Multiplanet Systems https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab8067 Shallow transit follow‐up from Next‐Generation Transit Survey: Simultaneous observations of HD 106315 with 11 identical telescopes https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.202013768
April 10, 2020 updates Dust Environment Model of the Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab8455 Molecular Cross Sections for High Resolution Spectroscopy of Super Earths, Warm Neptunes and Hot Jupiters https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.04160 Photochemistry of Anoxic Abiotic Habitable Planet Atmospheres: Impact of New H2O Cross-Sections https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.04185 Impossible moons — Transit timing effects that cannot be due to an exomoon https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.04230
April 9, 2020 updates Revised mass-radius relationships for water-rich rocky planets more irradiated than the runaway greenhouse limit https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.08878 Updated Parameters and a New Transmission Spectrum of HD 97658b https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.03601 Detectability of Life Using Oxygen on Pelagic Planets and Water Worlds https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.03631 Global Mapping of the Surface Composition on an Exo-Earth using Color Variability https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.03931 Global Mapping of an Exo-Earth using Sparse Modeling https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.03941 The Astrobiological Copernican Weak and Strong Limits for Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.03968
April 8, 2020 updates Multidimensional Habitability: Exploring the Possibility of Life Beyond Earth https://www.academia.edu/33461406/Multidimensional_Habitability_Exploring_the_Possibility_of_Life_Beyond_Earth Antimatter Propulsion https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20200001904.pdf Atmospheric convection plays a key role in the climate of tidally-locked terrestrial exoplanets: insights from high-resolution simulations https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.03007 Tidal Oscillations of Rotating Hot Jupiters https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.03094 Optical to near-infrared transmission spectrum of the warm sub-Saturn HAT-P-12b https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.03551
April 7, 2020 updates Sulfur-driven haze formation in warm CO2-rich exoplanet atmospheres https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1072-9 Formation of secondary atmospheres on terrestrial planets by late disk accretion https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1050-2 Modelling the He I triplet absorption at 10 830 Å in the atmosphere of HD 209458 b https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/04/aa37175-19/aa37175-19.html Extremely long convergence times in a 3D GCM simulation of the sub-Neptune Gliese 1214b https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.01829 Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov exhibits a structure similar to native Solar System comets https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.02033 Exomoon indicators in high-precision transit light curves https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.02259
April 6, 2020 updates Mass distribution of exoplanets considering some observation selection effects in the transit detection technique https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103520301603
April 3, 2020 updates Interstellar Comet Borisov is no longer in one piece https://www.space.com/interstellar-comet-borisov-two-pieces.html Is there Na I in the atmosphere of HD 209458b? – Effect of the centre-to-limb variation and Rossiter-McLaughlin effect in transmission spectroscopy studies https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/03/aa37221-19/aa37221-19.html Earth’s Polar Night Boundary Layer as an Analog for Dark Side Inversions on Synchronously Rotating Terrestrial Exoplanets https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab7fb3 WASP-4 is Accelerating Toward the Earth https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.00637 Tidal friction in satellites and planets. The new version of the creep tide theory https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.01109
April 2, 2020 updates Is the Kuiper Belt Inhabited?http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2019.72.382 A Preliminary Mass for Proxima Centauri Chttps://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab84f3 Smaller than expected bright-spot offsets in Spitzer phase curves of the hot Jupiter Qatar-1bhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.00014
April 1, 2020 updates The Solar System: Favored for Space Travel https://bio-complexity.org/ojs/index.php/main/article/viewArticle/BIO-C.2020.1 Intermittent signals and planetary days in SETI https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/intermittent-signals-and-planetary-days-in-seti/C82E96F87F60F2833576357CEE32FDFB Super‐Earth internal structures and initial thermal states https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2019JE006124 Robustly detecting changes in warm Jupiters’ transit impact parameters https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.13796 Retrograde-rotating exoplanets experience obliquity excitations in an eccentricity-enabled resonance https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.13864 Resolving Exo-Continents with Einstein Ring Deconvolution https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.13918 Thermally Driven Angular Momentum Transport in Hot Jupiters https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.14044 Physical Characterisation of Interstellar Comet 2I/2019 Q4 (Borisov) https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.14064 Outstanding Challenges of Exoplanet Atmospheric Retrievals https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.14311 Allesfitter: Flexible Star and Exoplanet Inference From Photometry and Radial Velocity https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.14371 Kepler’s Dark Worlds: a Low Albedo for an Ensemble of Neptunian and Terran Exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.10213
March 31, 2020 updates Humanity’s Journey to Interstellar Space http://interstellarprobe.jhuapl.edu/ 3rd Annual Interstellar Probe Exploration Workshop https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/interstellarprobe2020/ MIRACLES: atmospheric characterization of directly imaged planets and substellar companions at 4–5 μm – I. Photometric analysis of β Pic b, HIP 65426 b, PZ Tel B, and HD 206893 B https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/03/aa37159-19/aa37159-19.html Characteristics of ion beams generated in the interaction of ultra-short laser pulses with ultra-thin foils https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6587/ab7d26 Zodiacal Exoplanets in Time. X. The Orbit and Atmosphere of the Young “Neptune Desert”-Dwelling Planet K2-100b https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.12940 The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. A super-Earth planet orbiting HD 79211 (GJ 338 B) https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.13052 Orbital inclination and mass of the exoplanet candidate Proxima c https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.13106 The Most Common Habitable Planets II — Salty Oceans in Low Mass Habitable Planets and Global Climate Evolution https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.13107 From Super-Earths to Mini-Neptunes: Implications of a Surface on Atmospheric Circulation https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.13348 Stellar Driven Evolution of Hydrogen-Dominated Atmospheres from Earth-Like to Super-Earth-Type Exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.13412 The Habitability of Large Elliptical Galaxies https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.13643 Evidence for He I 10830 Å~ absorption during the transit of a warm Neptune around the M-dwarf GJ 3470 with the Habitable-zone Planet Finder https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.02070
March 30, 2020 updates Warped Space-time to Help WFIRST Find Exoplanetshttps://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/warped-space-time-to-help-wfirst-find-exoplanets
March 27, 2020 updates Future space telescopes may probe Titan-like exoplanets https://www.space.com/titan-like-exoplanets-future-space-telescopes.html New mission would provide a road map in the search for alien atmospheres https://www.colorado.edu/today/2020/03/26/new-mission-would-provide-road-map-search-alien-atmospheres Exoplanets in the Antarctic Sky. IV. Dual-band Photometry of Variables Found by the CSTAR-II Commissioning Survey at the North Sky https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab7449 Why is it so Cold in Here?: Explaining the Cold Temperatures Retrieved from Transmission Spectra of Exoplanet Atmospheres https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.11548 Transit Duration Variations in Multi-Planet Systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.11590 Earth-size planet formation in the habitable zone of circumbinary stars https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.11682 Habitability of polar regions in tidally locked extrasolar planet near the M-Dwarf stars https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.11732 The SOPHIE search for northern extrasolar planets. XVI. HD 158259: A compact planetary system in a near-3:2 mean motion resonance chain https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.13296 Effects of the general relativistic spin precessions on the habitability of rogue planets orbiting supermassive black holes https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.01518
March 26, 2020 updates Exocomets: A spectroscopic survey https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.11084 An information theoretic framework for classifying exoplanetary system architectures https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.11098 Giants eating giants: Mass loss and giant planets modifying the luminosity of the Tip of the Giant Branch https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.11499
March 25, 2020 updates Scientists discovered inexpensive method to make E-sail tether https://en.ilmatieteenlaitos.fi/press-release/1264989483 The TESS-Keck Survey I: A Warm Sub-Saturn-Mass Planet and a Caution about Stray Light in TESS Cameras https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.10451 TESS spots a hot Jupiter with an inner transiting Neptune https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.10852
March 24, 2020 updates Extraterrestrials https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/extraterrestrials Extraterrestrial Languages https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/extraterrestrial-languages Stellar activity consequence on the retrieved transmission spectra through chromatic Rossiter-McLaughlin observations https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/03/aa37419-19/aa37419-19.html Opportunities to Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.09639 Stellar wind effects on the atmospheres of close-in giants: a possible reduction in escape instead of increased erosion https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.10272 A remnant planetary core in the hot Neptunian desert https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.10314 The Magellan/PFS Exoplanet Search: A 55-day period dense Neptune transiting the bright (V=8.6) star HD 95338 https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.10319
March 23, 2020 updates Utilizing Small Telescopes Operated by Citizen Scientists for Transiting Exoplanet Follow-up https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.09046 The subsurface habitability of small, icy exomoons https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.09231 Expectations for the confirmation of Proxima c from a long-term radial velocity follow-up https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.09305 Water and air consumption aboard interstellar arks https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.09286
March 18, 2020 updates The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Radial velocities and activity indicators from cross-correlation functions with weighted binary masks https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.07471 Tidal and general relativistic effects in rocky planet formation at the sub-stellar mass limit using N-body simulations https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.07509 CHEOPS observations of TESS primary mission monotransits https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.07620 Nodal Precession in Closely Spaced Planet Pairs https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.07835
March 17, 2020 updates HST/STIS transmission spectrum of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-76 b confirms the presence of sodium in its atmosphere https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.06424 Transformative Science from the Lunar Farside: Observations of the Dark Ages and Exoplanetary Systems at Low Radio Frequencies https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.06881
March 16, 2020 updates Emergence of life in an inflationary universe https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-58060-0 Mission to Planet Earth: The First Two Billion Years https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-020-00652-3 Astrometric study of Gaia DR2 stars for interstellar communication https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.03511 Strong biases in retrieved atmospheric composition caused by strong day-night chemical heterogeneities https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.05943 Earth′s polar night boundary layer as an analogue for dark side inversions on synchronously rotating terrestrial exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.06306 Systematic Phase Curve Study of Known Transiting Systems from Year 1 of the TESS Mission https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.06407
March 13, 2020 updates Social and Conceptual Issues in Astrobiology https://www.amazon.com/Social-Conceptual-Issues-Astrobiology-Kelly/dp/019091565X/ How Well Do We Understand the Belt/Zone Circulation of Giant Planet Atmospheres? https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-019-0631-9 Venusian Habitable Climate Scenarios: Modeling Venus through time and applications to slowly rotating Venus-Like Exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.05704 SPHERE+: Imaging young Jupiters down to the snowline https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.05714 Three Short Period Jupiters from TESS https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.05932 Unified simulations of planetary formation and atmospheric evolution: Effects of pebble accretion, giant impacts, and stellar irradiations on super-Earth formation https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.05934
March 12, 2020 updates The Impact of Molecular Oxygen on Anion Composition in a Hazy Archean Earth Atmosphere https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2019.2145 Nightside condensation of iron in an ultrahot giant exoplanet https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2107-1 Resonance in the K2-19 system is at odds with its high reported eccentricities https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.04931 Dynamical instabilities in systems of multiple short-period planets are likely driven by secular chaos: a case study of Kepler-102 https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.05040 The reliability of the Titius-Bode relation and its implications for the search for exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.05121 Atmospheric compositions and observability of nitrogen dominated ultra-short period super-Earths https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.05354 Normalized Angular Momentum Deficit: a tool for comparing the violence of the dynamical histories of planetary systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.05366 A weak spectral signature of water vapour in the atmosphere of HD 179949 b at high spectral resolution in the L-band https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.05397
March 11, 2020 updates Hermeneutics as the Methodology of Interpretation of Languages and Texts of Extraterrestrial Intelligence https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/hermeneutics-as-the-methodology-of-interpretation-of-languages-and-texts-of-extraterrestrial-intelligence Photonic crystal lightsail with nonlinear reflectivity for increased stability https://www.osapublishing.org/oe/fulltext.cfm?uri=oe-28-6-8223&id=428802 Comparing focal plane wavefront control techniques:\Numerical simulations and laboratory experiments https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.04336 Architectures of Exoplanetary Systems. II: An Intrinsic Relation between Planetary System Occurrence and Spectral Type for Kepler’s FGK Dwarfs https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.04348 Searching the Entirety of Kepler Data. I. 17 New Planet Candidates Including 1 Habitable Zone World https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.04397 Probability of simultaneous parallax detection for free-floating planet microlensing events near Galactic Centre https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.04504 LHS 1815b: The First Thick-Disk Planet Detected By TESS https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.04525 Detection of Fe I and Fe II in the atmosphere of MASCARA-2b using a cross-correlation method https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.04650 Searching for Thermal Inversion Agents in the Transmission Spectrum of MASCARA-2b/KELT-20b: Detection of Neutral Iron and Ionised Calcium H&K Lines https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.04856 Modelling the He I triplet absorption at 10830 Angstroms in the atmosphere of HD 209458 b https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.04872 Re-inflation of warm and hot Jupiters https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.04877 Dynamical evolution of close-in binary systems formed by a super-earth and its host star https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.10575
March 10, 2020 updates A Multilayer Perceptron for Obtaining Quick Parameter Estimations of Cool Exoplanets from Geometric Albedo Spectra https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ab740d Sub-Neptune Formation: The View from Resonant Planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.03388 The Atmospheres of Rocky Exoplanets I. Outgassing of Common Rock and the Stability of Liquid Water https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.03628
March 9, 2020 updates Solar One – A Proposal for The First Manned Interstellar Spaceship https://engrxiv.org/qcrxa/ Prospectives in Deep Space Infrastructures, Development, and Colonization https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20200001142.pdf TOI-677b: A Warm Jupiter (P = 11.2 days) on an Eccentric Orbit Transiting a Late F-type Star https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab6f67 Ogle-2018-blg-0677lb: A super earth near the galactic bulge https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.02983 Atmospheric Escape Processes and Planetary Atmospheric Evolution https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.03231 A statistical search for Star-Planet Interaction in the UltraViolet using GALEX https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.03349
March 6, 2020 updates PANOSETI: A Panoramic All-sky All-time Near InfraRed and Optical Technosignature Finder https://oirlab.ucsd.edu/PANOSETI.html Can planetary rings explain the extremely low density of HIP 41378 𝑓? https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/03/aa37618-20/aa37618-20.html Peas in a Pod? Radius correlations in Kepler multi-planet systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.02290 KMT-2019-BLG-1339L: an M Dwarf with a Giant Planet or a Companion Near the Planet/Brown Dwarf Boundary https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.02375 Orbital Refinement and Stellar Properties for the HD 9446, HD 43691, and HD 179079 Planetary Systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.02385 Accurate Machine Learning Atmospheric Retrieval via a Neural Network Surrogate Model for Radiative Transfer https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.02430 Doppler Tomographic Measurement of the Nodal Precession of WASP-33b https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.02724
March 5, 2020 updates Capability considerations for enhancing safety on long duration crewed missions: Insights from a technical interchange meeting on autonomous crew operations https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468896720300082 Pattern recognition in time series for space missions: A rosetta magnetic field case study https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576519314328 Joint Radial Velocity and Direct Imaging Planet Yield Calculations: I. Self-consistent Planet Populations https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.01739 Assessment of astronomical images using combined machine learning models https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.01785 ExoReLR: A Bayesian Inverse Retrieval Framework For Exoplanetary Reflected Light Spectra https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.01814 Breaking Resonant Chains: Destabilization of Resonant Planets due to Long-term Mass Evolution https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.01965 Proxima Centauri b: A Strong Case for including Cosmic-Ray-induced Chemistry in Atmospheric Biosignature Studies https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.02036
March 4, 2020 updates The effect of high nitrogen pressures on the habitable zone and an appraisal of greenhouse states https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa603/5780240 Cloud Atlas: High-precision HST/WFC3/IR Time-resolved Observations of Directly Imaged Exoplanet HD 106906b https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab6f65 A free-floating or wide-orbit planet in the microlensing event OGLE-2019-BLG-0551 https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.01126 A pair of TESS planets spanning the radius valley around the nearby mid-M dwarf LTT 3780 https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.01136 The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Two planets on the opposite sides of the radius gap transiting the nearby M dwarf LP 729-54 https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.01140 Follow-up imaging observations of comet 2I/Borisov https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.01457 Disentangling Atmospheric Compositions of K2-18 b with Next Generation Facilities https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.01486
March 3, 2020 updates NASA Approves Development of Universe-Studying, Planet-Finding Mission https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-approves-development-of-universe-studying-planet-finding-mission Why do warm Neptunes present nonzero eccentricity? https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/03/aa36967-19/aa36967-19.html Exoplanet Occurrence Rates of Mid M-dwarfs Based on Kepler DR25 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab7afd Laser-driven high-velocity microparticle launcher in atmosphere and under vacuum https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0734743X19306402 General Relativity Theory for Navigation https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339389635_PREPRINT_GENERAL_RELATIVITY_THEORY_FOR_NAVIGATION High-resolution spectroscopy and spectropolarimetry of the total lunar eclipse January 2019 https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08690 The white dwarf planet WD J0914+1914 b: barricading potential rocky pollutants? https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.00020 Birth environment of circumbinary planets: are there CBPs on the inclined orbits? https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.00375 Into the UV: A precise transmission spectrum of HAT-P-41b using Hubble’s WFC3/UVIS G280 grism https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.00536
March 2, 2020 updates Modeling and simulating a regenerative life support system to understand the effects of system interaction on survivability during deep space missions https://repository.tudelft.nl/islandora/object/uuid:dc29a485-a014-454f-9dde-aff5bb133c1d TYCHO — Realistically Simulating Exoplanets within Stellar Clusters I: Improving the Monte Carlo Approach https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.12375 Indexing Exoplanets with Physical Conditions Potentially Suitable for Rock-Dependent Extremophiles https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.12650 Achieving the required mobility in the solar system through Direct Fusion Drive https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.12686
February 28, 2020 updates The reliability of the Titius–Bode relation and its implications for the search for exoplanets https://academic.oup.com/pasj/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/pasj/psz146/5763006 Birth environment of circumbinary planets: are there circumbinary planets on inclined orbits? https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/493/2/1907/5764173 The UV surface habitability of Proxima b : first experiments revealing probable life survival to stellar flares https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnrasl/slaa037/5762693 Frequency of Planets in Binaries https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.11734 Direct Multipixel Imaging and Spectroscopy of an Exoplanet with a Solar Gravity Lens Mission https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.11871 Planets in Binaries: Formation and Dynamical Evolution https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.12006
February 27, 2020 updates A probabilistic analysis of the Fermi paradox in terms of the Drake formula: the role of the L factor https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa512/5741733 Grand challenges for nanophotonics: Steering and riding light https://authors.library.caltech.edu/101355/ Energy-sensitive Detectors for Astronomy: Past, Present and Future https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1387647320300038 High-Energy and High-Quality Ion beams in Light Sail Acceleration https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.11563 The interior and atmosphere of the habitable-zone exoplanet K2-18b https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.11115 Fingerprints of giant planets in the composition of solar twins https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.11135 Can planetary rings explain the extremely low density of HIP 41378f? https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.11422
February 26, 2020 updates Searching the Entirety of Kepler Data. I. 17 New Planet Candidates Including One Habitable Zone World https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab6cf8 Cloud Atlas: Weak Color Modulations Due to Rotation in the Planetary-mass Companion GU Psc b and 11 Other Brown Dwarfs https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab5f59 Circumbinary Planets — The Next Steps https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.10492 The GAPS Programme at TNG XXI — A GIARPS case-study of known young planetary candidates: confirmation of HD 285507 b and refutation of AD Leo b https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.10562 Is there NaI in the atmosphere of HD 209458b? Effect of the centre-to-limb variation and Rossiter-McLaughlin effect in transmission spectroscopy studies https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.10595 Energy Optimization in Extrasolar Planetary Systems: The Transition from Peas-in-a-Pod to Runaway Growth https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.10661 Fourth-order Coronagraph for High-Contrast Imaging of Exoplanets with Off-axis Segmented Telescopes https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.10762 Spatial distribution of exoplanet candidates based on Kepler and Gaia data https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.10823 TRAPPIST-1 Habitable Atmosphere Intercomparison (THAI). Motivations and protocol version 1.0 https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.10950
February 25, 2020 updates EDEN: Sensitivity Analysis and Transiting Planet Detection Limits for Nearby Late Red Dwarfs https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.10017 Distinguishing multicellular life on exoplanets by testing Earth as an exoplanet https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.10368 Extrasolar enigmas: from disintegrating exoplanets to exoasteroids https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.10370
February 24, 2020 updates The winter-over syndrome and the potential lessons for space travel https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/handle/10092/18567 Third Displacement: Cosmobiology, Cosmolocality, Cosmosocioecology https://www.amazon.com/Third-Displacement-Cosmobiology-Cosmolocality-Cosmosocioecology-ebook/dp/B084T5QSDM/ Chemical Diversity of Super-Earths As a Consequence of Formation https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.09042 Fly-by encounters between two planetary systems II: Exploring the interactions of diverse planetary system architectures https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.09271
February 21, 2020 updates Giant planet swaps during close stellar encounters https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08366 Linking the formation and fate of exo-Kuiper belts within solar system analogues https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08372 Detection of Na, K, and Hα absorption in the atmosphere of WASP-52b using ESPRESSO https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08379 The Dark Planets of the WASP-47 Planetary System https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08381 Stabilization of dayside surface liquid water via tropopause cold trapping on arid slowly rotating tidally locked planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08600 Coherent radio emission from a quiescent red dwarf indicative of star-planet interaction https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08727 Observational Constraints on the Great Filter https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08776 A crucial test for astronomical spectrograph calibration with frequency combs https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08868
February 20, 2020 updates Architecture of three-planet systems predicted from the observed protoplanetary disk of HL Tau https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08036 The Stellar Variability Noise Floor for Transiting Exoplanet Photometry with PLATO https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08072 The role of disc torques in forming resonant planetary systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08077 On the Likelihood of Observing Extragalactic Civilizations: Predictions from the Self-Indication Assumption https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08194
February 19, 2020 updates Partial Ownership for Outer Space Economy https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42423-019-00042-0 Observational Signatures of Sub-Relativistic Meteors https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.01476 3D magneto-hydrodynamical simulations of stellar convective noise for improved exoplanet detection. I. Case of regularly sampled radial velocity observations https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.07457 Anoxic weathering of mafic oceanic crust promotes atmospheric oxygenation https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.07667
February 18, 2020 updates Hardware-In-The-Loop Testing of Formation Flying Control and Sensing Algorithms for Starshade Missions https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576520300734 Coupled Thermal and Compositional Evolution of Photo Evaporating Planet Envelopes https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.06466 Bringing high spatial resolution to the Far-infrared — A giant leap for astrophysics https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.06693 Stellar masks and bisector’s shape for M-type stars observed in the GAPS Programme with HARPS-N at TNG https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.06844 Empirical Line Lists in the ExoMol Database https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.06939
February 17, 2020 updates Breakthrough Listen’s Search for Intelligent Life (SETI) Releases Unprecedented Data Survey of Milky Way’s Galactic Center, Earth Transit Zone and Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov https://breakthroughinitiatives.org/news/28 Coherent radio emission from a quiescent red dwarf indicative of star–planet interaction https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1011-9 Advances in Mach Effect Gravitational Assist (MEGA) Drive Experimentation http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2019.72.376 NRAO, SETI Institute Agree on New Research Programs https://public.nrao.edu/news/nrao-seti-institute-new-research/ Extrasolar Terrestrial Planet Characterization and the Search for Life https://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2020/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/25450 Hunting for Technosignatures https://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2020/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/25448 When is the Evidence Sufficient to Claim the Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life? https://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2020/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/25451 New aluminium hydroxide at multimegabar pressures: Implications for water reservoirs in deep planetary interiors https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103518306274 COol Companions ON Ultrawide orbiTS (COCONUTS). I. A High-Gravity T4 Benchmark around an Old White Dwarf and A Re-Examination of the Surface-Gravity Dependence of the L/T Transition https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.05723 Planetary Architectures in Interacting Stellar Environments https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.05727 HATS-47b, HATS-48Ab, HATS-49b and HATS-72b: Four Warm Giant Planets Transiting K Dwarfs https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.05776 Evidence for Spin-orbit Alignment in the TRAPPIST-1 System https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.05892 The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: A 3.95-8.00 GHz Search for Radio Technosignatures in the Restricted Earth Transit Zone https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.06162 Evaluating the Effect of Four Immeasurable Parameters Included in a Latitudinal Energy Balance Model on the Habitability of Exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.06907
February 14, 2020 updates The Transit and Light Curve Modeller https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa349/5731867 Outer Planet Single-transit Detections with LSST https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.05453 Precision and consistency of astrocombs https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.05182 Irradiated ocean planets bridge super-Earth and sub-Neptune populations https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.05243 One Planet or Two Planets? The Ultra-sensitive Extreme-magnification Microlensing Event KMT-2019-BLG-1953 https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.05310
February 13, 2020 updates Effects of Mirror Seeing on High-Contrast Adaptive Optics Instruments https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.04649 The TRAPPIST-1 JWST Community Initiative https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.04798
February 12, 2020 updates Prospects for Interstellar Propulsion https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20200000759&hterms=Prospects+Interstellar+Propulsion A Sub-Neptune-sized Planet Transiting the M2.5 Dwarf G 9-40: Validation with the Habitable-zone Planet Finder https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab5f15 Advances in Deep Space Exploration via Simulators & Deep Learning https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.04051
February 11, 2020 updates What is Paradoxical About ‘Fermi’s Paradox’? https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10441-020-09376-x Improving transit characterisation with Gaussian process modelling of stellar variability https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/02/aa36086-19/aa36086-19.html Atmospheric Erosion by Giant Impacts onto Terrestrial Planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02977 Propulsion of Spacecrafts to Relativistic Speeds Using Natural Astrophysical Sources https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.03247 Implications of Abiotic Oxygen Buildup for Earth-like Complex Life https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.03248 ExoSim: the Exoplanet Observation Simulator https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.03739 Radio eclipses of exoplanets by the winds of their host stars https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.03901 HD 191939: Three Sub-Neptunes Transiting a Sun-like Star Only 54 pc Away https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.03958
February 10, 2020 updates Case Study of an Interstellar Mission to Luhman 16: Unmanned Interstellar Probe Powered by Gas Core Nuclear Reactors https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337000501_Case_Study_of_an_Interstellar_Mission_to_Luhman_16_Unmanned_Interstellar_Probe_Powered_by_Gas_Core_Nuclear_Reactors On A Hypothetical Mechanism of Interstellar Life Transfer Trough Nomadic Objects https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11084-020-09591-z A crucial test for astronomical spectrograph calibration with frequency combs https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1010-x Kepler-1661 b: A Neptune-sized Kepler Transiting Circumbinary Planet around a Grazing Eclipsing Binar https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab665b GJ 1252 b: A 1.2 R ⊕ Planet Transiting an M3 Dwarf at 20.4 pc https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab7020 Planetary evolution with atmospheric photoevaporation I. Analytical derivation and numerical study of the evaporation valley and transition from super-Earths to sub-Neptunes https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02455 The Impact of Planetary Rotation Rate on the Reflectance and Thermal Emission Spectrum of Terrestrial Exoplanets Around Sun-like Stars https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02549 Occurrence Rates of Planets Orbiting M Stars: Applying ABC to Kepler DR25, Gaia DR2, and 2MASS Data https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02573 The continuing search for evidence of tidal orbital decay of hot Jupiters https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02606 Non-detection of TiO and VO in the atmosphere of WASP-121b using high-resolution spectroscopy https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02795 Occurrence and Architecture of Kepler Planetary Systems as Functions of Stellar Mass and Effective Temperature https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02840 Unveiling cloudy exoplanets: the influence of cloud model choices on retrieval solutions https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02945
February 7, 2020 updates Deep Space (Treaty) Exploration: Reviving Today’s Obsolete Space Treaties https://digitalcommons.law.msu.edu/ilr/vol28/iss1/1/ How the Privatization of Space Exploration Will Positively Effect Humanity https://jenacrangnow.wordpress.com/2019/01/06/the-privatization-of-space-exploration/ Artificial versus Biological Intelligence in the Cosmos: Clues from a Stochastic Analysis of the Drake Equation https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.11644 Can polarity-inverted membranes self-assemble on Titan? https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/4/eaax0272 Orbit classification in exoplanetary systems https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/02/aa37224-19/aa37224-19.html Precision and consistency of astrocombs https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa356/5729051 Doppler shifts and spectral line profile changes in the starlight scattered from an exoplanet https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa268/5729057 On the impact of tides on the transit-timing fits to the TRAPPIST-1 system https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02015 First SETI Observations with China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02130 The Bimodal Distribution in Exoplanet Radii: Considering Varying Core Compositions and H2 Envelop Sizes https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02166
February 6, 2020 updates Surfing a Supernova https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/surfing-a-supernova/ The origin of life as a planetary phenomenon https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/6/eaax3419 Effects of an intrinsic magnetic field on ion loss from ancient Mars based on multispecies MHD simulations https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2019JA026945 A Framework for Optimizing Exoplanet Target Selection for the James Webb Space Telescope https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.01495 Three planets transiting the evolved star EPIC 249893012: a hot 8.8-M⊕ super-Earth and two warm 14.7 and 10.2-M⊕ sub-Neptunes https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.01755 The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Characterization of the nearby ultra-compact multiplanetary system YZ Ceti https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.01772 Exo-MerCat: a merged exoplanet catalog with Virtual Observatory connection https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.01834
February 5, 2020 updates Immune recognition of putative alien microbial structures: Host–pathogen interactions in the age of space travel https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1008153 Light Sailing into the Great Beyond https://www.osapublishing.org/opn/abstract.cfm?uri=opn-31-2-30 Traversable wormholes in R+αRn gravity https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7587-5 The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: Observations of 1327 Nearby Stars Over 1.10–3.45 GHz https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab65f1 The Design of a Space-based Observation and Tracking System for Interstellar Objects https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.00984 A comparison of exoplanet spectroscopic retrieval tools https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.01063 Three-dimensional modelling of absorption by various species for hot Jupiter HD 209458b https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.01198 Effects of Radiation Pressure on the Evaporative Wind of HD 209458b https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.00075
February 4, 2020 updates Revisited mass-radius relations for exoplanets below 120 M⊕ https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/02/aa36482-19/aa36482-19.html Lens Flare: Magnified X-Ray Binaries as Passive Beacons in SETI https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.00128 triceratops: A Tool for Rapid Validation of TESS Objects of Interest and Application to 424 Planet Candidates https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.00691 Understanding and Mitigating Biases when Studying Inhomogeneous Emission Spectra with JWST https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.00773 The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Dynamical characterization of the multiple planet system GJ 1148 and prospects of habitable exomoons around GJ 1148 b https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.00906
February 3, 2020 updates A Machian wave effect in conformal, scalar–tensor gravitational theory https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10714-019-2547-9 Inertia and propulsion in general relativity: a reply to rodal https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10714-019-2654-7 Scaling K2. I. Revised Parameters for 222,088 K2 Stars and a K2 Planet Radius Valley at 1.9 R⊕ https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.11511 Scaling K2. II. Assembly of a Fully Automated C5 Planet Candidate Catalog Using EDI-Vetter https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.11515 Interstellar comet 2I/Borisov as seen by MUSE: C2, NH2 and red CN detections https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.11605
January 31, 2020 updates MOVES III. Simultaneous X-ray and ultraviolet observations unveiling the variable environment of the hot Jupiter HD 189733b https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.11048 TraMoS V. Updated ephemeris and multi-epoch monitoring of the hot Jupiters WASP-18Ab, WASP-19b, and WASP-77Ab https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.11112 Implications of three-dimensional chemical transport in hot Jupiter atmospheres: results from a consistently coupled chemistry-radiation-hydrodynamics model https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.11444
January 30, 2020 updates Cheops opens its eye to the sky https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Cheops/Cheops_opens_its_eye_to_the_sky KIDSpec: An MKID-Based Medium-Resolution, Integral Field Spectrograph https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10909-020-02347-z Starshade formation flying I: optical sensing https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.10575 Detection of the phase curve and occultation of WASP-100b with TESS https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.10580 Dangerous stellar encounters with an Earth-like planet in the Milky Way galaxy https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.10595 Radial velocity constraints on the long-period transiting planet Kepler-1625 b with CARMENES https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.10867 Habitable zones around almost extremely spinning black holes (black sun revisited) https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.10991
January 29, 2020 updates GAO warns of more JWST delays https://spacenews.com/gao-warns-of-more-jwst-delays/ NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe Mission Enters Design Phase https://www.swri.org/press-release/imap-codice-solar-wind-particle-acceleration Does artificial intelligence dream of non-terrestrial techno-signatures? https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S009457651931392X Red Dots: A temperate 1.5 Earth-mass planet candidate in a compact multi-terrestrial planet system around GJ 1061 https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa248/5717319 MOVES III. Simultaneous X-ray and ultraviolet observations unveiling the variable environment of the hot Jupiter HD 189733b https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa256/5717312 Seismicity on tidally active solid-surface worlds https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103518307243 Technological Challenges in Low-mass Interstellar Probe Communication https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.09987
January 28, 2020 updates Quantifying the Bayesian Evidence for a Planet in Radial Velocity Data https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab5190 The Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey: Dynamical Mass of the Exoplanet β Pictoris b from Combined Direct Imaging and Astrometry https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab5b92 Ondřejov Echelle Spectrograph, Ground Based Support Facility for Exoplanet Missions https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ab6752 A hot terrestrial planet orbiting the bright M dwarf L 168-9 unveiled by TESS https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.09175 Atmosphere Origins for Exoplanet Sub-Neptunes https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.09269 On the aspect ratio of Oumuamua: less elongated shape for irregular surface properties https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.09283 Reviewing METI: A Critical Analysis of the Arguments https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.05663 Virtual European Solar & Planetary Access (VESPA): a Planetary Science Virtual Observatory cornerstone https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.06521
TVIW announces Scholarship Program for rising college undergraduates, graduate students The non-profit Tennessee Valley Interstellar Workshop is proud to present its 2020 Scholarship Program, to provide two undergraduate scholarships and one graduate-student scholarship for qualifying students. The $2,500 scholarships (including the Tim Bolgeo Memorial Scholarship), sponsored by TVIW supporters Baen Books and Rob and Ruann Hampson, are merit-based, and require applicants to complete an essay with their application forms. The deadline for all applications is May 15, 2020. “The Tennessee Valley Interstellar Workshop was created to foster and assist the study, research and experimentation necessary to make human interstellar travel a reality, with untold benefits to life on Earth,” said TVIW President Emeritus John Preston. “We can imagine no better way to demonstrate that goal than the creation of these scholarships, helping new generations of thinkers, builders and explorers to set their sights on the stars.” Applicants for the undergraduate scholarships must be high school seniors in the southeast United States (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, or Virginia) who plan to pursue their first undergraduate degree in a STEM related field at any accredited, four-year American college or university. Applicants for the graduate scholarship must be full-time college or university students majoring in a STEM related field, and seeking a graduate degree in science from an accredited college or university in the United States. For more information about the new scholarships, including application guidelines, visit: https://irg.space/2020-scholarships/ To learn more about TVIW scholarship sponsors, visit: http://www.baen.com Connect with TVIW organizers and participants via social media: Web: https://irg.space Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InterstellarResearchGroup Twitter: https://twitter.com/tviwus YouTube: http://youtube.com/tviw
January 27, 2020 updates Asteroseismic Characterization of Exoplanet-host stars in preparation for NASA’s TESS and ESA’s PLATO space missions https://hdl.handle.net/10216/125557 How Earth Climate Models Help Scientists Picture Life on Unimaginable Worlds https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/how-earth-climate-models-help-scientists-picture-life-on-unimaginable-worlds Astrophysics of Planet Formation https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/astrophysics-of-planet-formation/B8930D0AAA52F707BDA8A33F67DEA40E Detection of Diatomic Carbon in 2I/Borisov https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab6bd9 Mass determinations of the three mini-Neptunes transiting TOI-125 https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.08834 Effect of vegetation on the temperatures of Trappist-1 planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.08946 Post-Detection SETI Protocols & METI: The Time Has Come To Regulate Them Both https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.08422 Challenges in Scientific Data Communication from Low-Mass Interstellar Probe https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.07778
January 24, 2020 updates Collisional formation of massive exomoons of super-terrestrial exoplanets https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa211/5715471 On the Habitable Lifetime of Terrestrial Worlds with High Radionuclide Abundances https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab68e5 A multiplicity study of transiting exoplanet host stars. I. High-contrast imaging with VLT/SPHERE https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.08224 A multiplicity study of transiting exoplanet host stars. II. Revised properties of transiting planetary systems with companions https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.08225 Cloud Atlas: High-precision HST/WFC3/IR Time-Resolved Observations of Directly-Imaged Exoplanet HD106906b https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.08304 A Search for Transiting Planets in the Globular Cluster M4 with K2: Candidates and Occurrence Limits https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.08362
January 23, 2020 updates Mass determinations of the three mini-Neptunes transiting TOI-125 https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa197/5714765 Eating Planets for Lunch and Dinner: Signatures of Planet Consumption by Evolving Stars https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab5b00
January 22, 2020 updates Spacecraft Guidance Sensing at Relativistic Velocities https://www.intechopen.com/books/advances-in-spacecraft-attitude-control/spacecraft-guidance-sensing-at-relativistic-velocities On the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-journal-of-international-law/article/on-the-search-for-extraterrestrial-intelligence-seti/F6EB673C1E3F670D1DE68588824636B1 The Habitable Exoplanet Observatory (HabEx) Mission Concept Study Final Report https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.06683 Hot Exoplanet Atmospheres Resolved with Transit Spectroscopy (HEARTS) III. Atmospheric structure of the misaligned ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-121b https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.06836 Detection of neutral atomic species in the ultra-hot jupiter WASP-121b https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.07196 TOI-257b (HD 19916b): A Warm sub-Saturn on a Moderately Eccentric Orbit Around an Evolved F-type Star https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.07345 Confirmation of WASP-107b’s extended Helium atmosphere with Keck II/NIRSPEC https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.07667
January 21, 2020 updates A Deep Dive into Tidal Lock https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2020/01/20/a-deep-dive-into-tidal-lock/
January 20, 2020 updates Atmospheric circulation of tidally locked gas giants with increasing rotation and implications for white-dwarf-brown-dwarf systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.06269 Detection of Fe I in the atmosphere of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-121b, and a new likelihood-based approach for Doppler-resolved spectroscopy https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.06430
January 17, 2020 updates Aspects of Pulsar Navigation for Deep Space Mission Applications https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40295-019-00209-9 Regime-switching model detection map for direct exoplanet detection in ADI sequences https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/01/aa36421-19/aa36421-19.html Expected performances of the Characterising Exoplanet Satellite (CHEOPS) II. The CHEOPS simulator https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.05587 A public HARPS radial velocity database corrected for systematic errors https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.05942
January 16, 2020 updates Controversy over giant telescope roils astronomy conference in Hawaii https://www.space.com/thirty-meter-telescope-controversy-roils-astronomy-conference.html A low-mass planet candidate orbiting Proxima Centauri at a distance of 1.5 AU https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/3/eaax7467 Tidal disruption of planetary bodies by white dwarfs II: Debris disc structure and ejected interstellar asteroids https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa143/5707428 Visions of a Martian Future https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0016328720300045 Wind erosion on Mars and other small terrestrial planets https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103519302726 A toolbox for identifying the expression of dome-forming volcanism on exoplanets https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0032063319302648
January 15, 2020 updates Fundamental limits from chaos on instability time predictions in compact planetary systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.04606 Global Chemistry and Thermal Structure Models for the Hot Jupiter WASP-43b and Predictions for JWST https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.04759 Water production rates and activity of interstellar comet 2I/Borisov https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.04865 The high-energy environment and atmospheric escape of the mini-Neptune K2-18 b https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.04532
January 14, 2020 updates In-Space Manufacturing: The Gateway to the High Frontier and an Enabling Technology for Human Space Exploration https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20200000035.pdf Natural intelligence and anthropic reasoning https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.01109 Understanding the atmospheric properties and chemical composition of the ultra-hot Jupiter HAT-P-7b II. Mapping the effects of gas kinetics https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.03668 Simulated mass measurements of the young planet K2-33b https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.04304
January 13, 2020 updates Detrending Exoplanetary Transit Light Curves with Long Short-Term Memory Networks https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.03370
January 10, 2020 updates Extremophilic models for astrobiology: haloarchaeal survival strategies and pigments for remote sensing https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00792-019-01126-3 Detecting Interstellar Objects Through Stellar Occultations https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.02681 Kepler-1661 b: A Neptune-sized Kepler Transiting Circumbinary Planet around a Grazing Eclipsing Binary https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.02840 Near-ultraviolet Transmission Spectroscopy of HD 209458b: Evidence of Ionized Iron Beyond the Planetary Roche Lobe https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.03126 Magnitude and direction of the local interstellar magnetic field inferred from Voyager 1 and 2 interstellar data and global heliospheric model https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.03061
January 9, 2020 updates A new tool for ‘weighing’ unseen planets https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/a-new-tool-for-weighing-unseen-planets NEID Exoplanet Instrument Sees First Light https://www.nationalastro.org/news/neid-exoplanet-instrument-sees-first-light/ Goldilocks Stars Are Best Places to Look for Life https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2020/news-2020-06 Concept Design of Occulter Using Modular Self-Deployable Membrane Truss https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2020-1182 Circumstellar environment of 55 Cancri – The super-Earth 55 Cnc e as a primary target for star–planet interactions https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/01/aa37186-19/aa37186-19.html Transfer of Life by Earth-Grazing Objects to Exoplanetary Systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.02235
January 8, 2020 updates On the Maximization of the Science Output of Space Missions https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-019-0628-4 Sensitive probing of exoplanetary oxygen via mid-infrared collisional absorption https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-019-0977-7 Discovery of TESS Mission’s First Circumbinary Planet https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2020/01/07/discovery-of-tess-missions-first-circumbinary-planet/ Atmospheric Characterization and Further Orbital Modeling of κ Andromeda b https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab5afa Search for Nearby Earth Analogs. II. Detection of Five New Planets, Eight Planet Candidates, and Confirmation of Three Planets around Nine Nearby M Dwarfs https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/ab5e7c Dead Zones of Classical Habitability in Stellar Binary Systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.01754 An ultra-short period rocky super-Earth orbiting the G2-star HD 80653 https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.02217 Habitability and Water Loss Limits on Eccentric Planets Orbiting Main Sequence Stars https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.02228
January 7, 2020 Updates The First Habitable Zone Earth-sized Planet from TESS. I: Validation of the TOI-700 System https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.00952 The First Habitable Zone Earth-Sized Planet From TESS II: Spitzer Confirms TOI-700 d https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.00954 The First Habitable Zone Earth-sized Planet from TESS. III: Climate States and Characterization Prospects for TOI-700 d https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.00955 Ondr}ejov echelle spectrograph, ground based support facility for exoplanet missions https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.01001 Testing the solar activity paradigm in the context of exoplanet transits https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.01093 Analysis of some Semi-Detached systems observed by TESS https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.01292 The evolutionary track of H/He envelope in the observed population of sub-Neptunes and Super-Earths planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.01299 Earth-Like: An education & outreach tool for exploring the diversity of planets like our own https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.01438
January 6, 2020 updates Demonstration of Deployment Accuracy of the Starshade Inner Disk Subsystem https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2020-1670 Thin-Ply Thermoplastic Composites for Foldable Structures https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2020-0206 Stowage and Recovery of Thin-ply Composite Deployable Structures https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2020-0205 Detecting and Characterizing Water Vapor in the Atmospheres of Earth Analogs through Observation of the 0.94 μm Feature in Reflected Light https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab5a8a There’s No Place Like Home (in Our Own Solar System): Searching for ET Near White Dwarfs https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.00673
January 3, 2020 updates MuSCAT2 multicolour validation of TESS candidates: an ultra-short-period substellar object around an M dwarf https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/01/aa35958-19/aa35958-19.html A robust, template-free approach to precise radial velocity extraction https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz3599/5695753 High-resolution Spectra and Biosignatures of Earth-like Planets Transiting White Dwarfs https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.00049 High resolution Spectra of Earth-Like Planets Orbiting Red Giant Host Stars https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.00050 Deflating Super-Puffs: Impact of Photochemical Hazes on the Observed Mass-Radius Relationship of Low Mass Planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.00055 How planetary surfaces can shape the climate of habitable exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.00085 Creation and Evolution of Impact-generated Reduced Atmospheres of Early Earth https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.00095 Using Data Imputation for Signal Separation in High Contrast Imaging https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.00563
