Author: Doug Loss

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…

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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:…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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:…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 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).…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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/…

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…

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…

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…

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Monitoring of transiting exoplanets and their host stars with small aperture telescopes https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.08379

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…

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…

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 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…

Constraining Prebiotic Chemistry Through a Better Understanding of Earth’s Earliest Environments https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.04803

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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:…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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:…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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:…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

Mass distribution of exoplanets considering some observation selection effects in the transit detection technique https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103520301603

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…

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

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’…

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…

Warped Space-time to Help WFIRST Find Exoplanetshttps://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/warped-space-time-to-help-wfirst-find-exoplanets

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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

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…

A Deep Dive into Tidal Lock https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2020/01/20/a-deep-dive-into-tidal-lock/

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…

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)…

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…

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…

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…

Detrending Exoplanetary Transit Light Curves with Long Short-Term Memory Networks https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.03370

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Evolution of the Global Carbon Cycle and Climate Regulation on Earth https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2018GB006061 Current Population Statistics Do Not Favor Photoevaporation over Core-Powered Mass Loss as the Dominant Cause of the Exoplanet…

Optical Transmission Spectra of Hot-Jupiters: Effects of Scattering https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.12495 MCMCI: a code to fully characterize an exoplanetary system https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.12632 Is Interstellar Object 2I/Borisov a Stardust Comet? Predictions for the Post…

Mass constraints for 15 protoplanetary disks from HD 1-0 https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.11883 Setting Sail for the Sun: The NEA Scout & Solar Cruiser Missions https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20190033998.pdf

Mass constraints for 15 protoplanetary disks from HD 1-0 https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.11883 Setting Sail for the Sun: The NEA Scout & Solar Cruiser Missions https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20190033998.pdf The TVIW Staff

Superflares on solar-type stars from the first year observation of TESS https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.11572 Long-lived Dust Rings around HD 169142 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab5c87 Exoplanet Imitators: A Test of Stellar Activity Behavior in Radial Velocity…

Evaluation of different parameterizations of temperature dependences of the line-shape parameters based on ab initio calculations: Case study for the HITRAN database https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022407319304480

High-Resolution Transmission Spectra of Earth through Geological Time https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.11149 Simulations of Water Vapor and Clouds on Rapidly Rotating and Tidally Locked Planets: a 3D Model Intercomparison https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.11329 Transition from eyeball…

Dispersed Matter Planet Project discoveries of ablating planets orbiting nearby bright stars https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-019-0973-y An ablating 2.6 M⊕ planet in an eccentric binary from the Dispersed Matter Planet Project https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-019-0972-z A…

Probable cold and alkaline surface environment of the Hadean Earth caused by impact ejecta weathering https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2019GC008734 OGLE-2013-BLG-0911Lb: A Secondary on the Brown-Dwarf Planet Boundary around an M-dwarf https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.09613 SVEEEETIES: Singular…

A real-life deluminator for spotting exoplanets by reflected starlight https://phys.org/news/2019-12-real-life-deluminator-exoplanets-starlight.html Static traversable wormholes in f(R, T) = R + 2α ln T gravity https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0577907319309141 Survival of Primordial Planetary Atmospheres: Photodissociation…

The Exo.MAST Table for JWST Exoplanet Atmosphere Observability https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab62a1 Dim Prospects for Transmission Spectra of Ocean Earths Around M Stars https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.08235 Chemical abundances of 1111 FGK stars from the HARPS-GTO…

Power Systems for Miniature Interstellar Flyby Probe https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20190033432.pdf NameExoWorlds http://www.nameexoworlds.iau.org/ JWST Guaranteed Time Observations http://www.stsci.edu/jwst/observing-programs/approved-gto-programs Holistic approach for studying planetary hydrospheres: Gibbs representation of ices thermodynamics, elasticity and the water…

A comparison of inner Solar System volcanism https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-019-0944-3 K2 Looks Toward WASP-28 and WASP-151 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ab5598 TESS Phase Curve of the Hot Jupiter WASP-19b https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.06773 Could star-planet magnetic interactions lead to…

Experimental Verification of a Bigrating Beam Rider https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.244302 Farside Array for Radio Science Investigations of the Dark ages and Exoplanets https://smd-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/science-red/s3fs-public/atoms/files/FARSIDE_FinalRpt-2019-Nov8.pdf The Mass Distribution of Transiting Exoplanets Corrected for Observational…

Approach to exploring interstellar objects and long-period comets https://authors.library.caltech.edu/100202/ The K2-18b Planetary System: Estimates of the Age and X-UV Irradiances of a Habitable Zone “Wet” Sub-Neptune Planet https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab6086 SWIMMERs: A…

Circumbinary exoplanets and brown dwarfs with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2019/12/aa36729-19/aa36729-19.html Searching for Planets Orbiting α Cen A with the James Webb Space Telescope https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ab5066 Design and Experimental Test…

Searching for a standard Drake equation https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.01783 Planetary Astrobiology https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/planetary-astrobiology The Helical Engine http://people.uncw.edu/ganl/phy335/project/group-A/Calton-Landon.pdf The Young Suns Exoplanet Survey: Detection of a wide orbit planetary mass companion to a solar-type…

The Exoplanets Channel https://exoplanetschannel.wixsite.com/home Water Vapor and Clouds on the Habitable-zone Sub-Neptune Exoplanet K2-18b https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab59dc FLAMINGOS-2 Infrared Photometry of 2I/Borisov https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab5f69 Future stellar flybys of the Voyager and Pioneer spacecraft…

How to Find an Interstellar Comet: A Q&A with Discoverer Gennady Borisov https://www.space.com/interstellar-comet-borisov-discoverer-interview-gennady-borisov.html The Trans-Neptunian Solar System (Chapters 15 and 16) https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780128164907/the-trans-neptunian-solar-system Stellar engines: Design considerations for maximizing acceleration https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576519312457…

Atmospheric dynamics in high obliquity planets https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103518305906 The dynamical history of the evaporating or disrupted ice giant planet around white dwarf WD J0914+1914 https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.02199 Signatures of Clouds in Hot Jupiter…

Testing exoplanet evaporation with multi-transiting systems https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.01609 Impact of Binary Stars on Planet Statistics — I. Planet Occurrence Rates, Trends with Stellar Mass, and Wide Companions to Hot Jupiter Hosts…

KELT-25b and KELT-26b: A Hot Jupiter and a Substellar Companion Transiting Young A-stars Observed by TESS https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.01017 PlanetEvidence: Planet or Noise? https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.01232 Fourier series for eclipses on exoplanet binaries https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.01298…

Multidimensional Habitability: Exploring the Possibility of Life Beyond Earth https://www.academia.edu/33461406/Multidimensional_Habitability_Exploring_the_Possibility_of_Life_Beyond_Earth No Snowball Cycles at the Outer Edge of the Habitable Zone for Habitable Tidally Locked Planets https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab5957 The Structure and…

Detection of Na, K and H2O in the hazy atmosphere of WASP-6b https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.12628 Modeling the Thermal Bulge of A Hot Jupiter with the Two-Stream Approximation https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.12687 Machine learning inference of…

Astrovirology, Astrobiology, Artificial Intelligence: Extra-Solar System Investigations https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-29022-1_20 NGTS and WASP photometric recovery of a single-transit candidate from TESS https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/491/2/1548/5632121

Mission Analysis and Optimal Control for Cislunar Mission with Spinning Tether System in Hyperbolic Orbits https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576519314316 OGLE-2016-BLG-1227L: A Wide-separation Planet from a Very Short-timescale Microlensing Event https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.11953 The Pan-Pacific Planet…

The Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey: Dynamical Mass of the Exoplanet beta Pictoris b from Combined Direct Imaging and Astrometry https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.11273 The clockwork is moving on — a combined analysis…

Survivability of Anhydrobiotic Cyanobacteria in Salty Ice: Implications for the Habitability of Icy Worlds https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/9/4/86 Formation of compact systems of super-Earths via dynamical instabilities and giant impacts https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.10277 Prospects for…

Hyper-SETI–A New Way of Searching for Extraterrestrial Iintelligence https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/fileadmin/ifex/2019/IAC-19_A4_1_13_x48686_full_paper.pdf The Dipole Drive: A New Concept in Propellantless Propulsion http://www.pioneerastro.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/The-Dipole-Drive-A-New-Concept-in-Propellantless-Propulsion.pdf Exoplanet atmospheres as indicators of life: From hot gas giants to…

Systematic simulations of FFP scattering by a star–planet pair https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10569-019-9931-3 A Search for Multiplanet Systems with TESS Using a Bayesian N-body Retrieval and Machine Learning https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab4e1c Simulated Direct Imaging Detection…

TARdYS: Design and prototype of an exoplanet hunter for TAO using a R6 Echelle grating https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10686-019-09642-y Cosmic biology in perspective https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10509-019-3698-6 Impact of Clouds and Hazes on the Simulated JWST…

NASA Takes a Cue From Silicon Valley to Hatch Artificial Intelligence Technologies https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/nasa-takes-a-cue-from-silicon-valley-to-hatch-artificial-intelligence-technologies Spain has permits to build giant telescope blocked in Hawaii https://phys.org/news/2019-11-spain-giant-telescope-blocked-hawaii.html The Search for Planet and Planetesimal…

Free-floating planets in the Milky Way https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40065-019-0267-3 3D Modeling of absorption by various species for hot jupiter HD209458b https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz3211/5628332 High-resolution reflection spectra for Proxima b and Trappist-1e models for ELT…

Telescope Technology Needs for HabEx and LUVOIR https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20190032599.pdf Extremophiles: a special or general case in the search for extra-terrestrial life? https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00792-019-01144-1 Circumbinary Planetary Systems in the Solar Neighborhood: Stability and…

Zodiacal Exoplanets in Time (ZEIT) IX: a flat transmission spectrum and a highly eccentric orbit for the young Neptune K2-25b as revealed by Spitzer https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.05744 Investigating the Planet-Metallicity Correlation for…

Search for stellar companions of exoplanet host stars by exploring the second ESA-Gaia data release https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/490/4/5088/5622591 Dusty phenomena in the vicinity of giant exoplanets https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2019/11/aa36521-19/aa36521-19.html TESS Reveals HD 118203 b…

The Dynamics of Interstellar Asteroids and Comets within the Galaxy: an Assessment of Local Candidate Source Regions for 1I/Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.02473 Advanced curation of astromaterials for planetary science https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-019-0615-9…

Incorporating Lessons from Geoarchaeology and Geoforensics into the Search for Non-Terrestrial Agnostic Biosignatures https://agu.confex.com/agu/abscicon19/mediafile/ExtendedAbstract/Paper482099/2019_AGU_AbSciCon_Submission_McGeeBW.pdf Engineered Exogenesis: Nature’s Model for Interstellar Colonization https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2019/11/01/engineered-exogenesis-natures-model-for-interstellar-colonization/ Host Star Dependence of Small Planet Mass-Radius Distributions…

ODEA: Orbital Dynamics in a complex Evolving Architecture – Application to the planetary system HD 106906 https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201935728 Magnetic Field Evolution in Terrestrial Bodies from Planetesimals to Exoplanets https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108290135.018 Habitable Zone…

New constraints on the HR 8799 planetary system from mid-infrared direct imaging https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz3117/5614511 Habitable Zone Boundaries for Circumbinary Planets https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ab50cb TOI-132 b: A short-period planet in the Neptune desert transiting…

Electric Sail Propulsion for Deep Space Missions https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20190032324.pdf Life on Venus and the interplanetary transfer of biota from Earth https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10509-019-3678-x 2I/Borisov: A C2-depleted interstellar comet https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2019/11/aa36959-19/aa36959-19.html Identifiable Acetylene Features Predicted…

A Full Implementation of Spectro-perfectionism for Precise Radial Velocity Exoplanet Detection: A Test Case With the MINERVA Reduction Pipeline https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ab4103 Multi-planet disc interactions in binary systems https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.00520 Collapse of the…

A Bundle of Sticks in Zero G: Non-State Actor Mining Rights for Celestial Bodies https://www.swlaw.edu/sites/default/files/2019-09/6.%20Lewis_393-412_JIL_v25n2.pdf The SpaceDrive Project -Overview of Revolutionary Propulsion Efforts at TU Dresden https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336824506_The_SpaceDrive_Project_-Overview_of_Revolutionary_Propulsion_Efforts_at_TU_Dresden Characterization of a…

Giant Magellan Telescope signs contract for telescope structure https://spacenewsfeed.com/index.php/news/3939-giant-magellan-telescope-signs-contract-for-telescope-structure Optimal Steering Law of Refractive Sail https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0273117719307835 Molecular kinetic simulations of transient perturbations in a planet’s upper atmosphere https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103519301964 Photon-Sail Trajectory…

Diverse outcomes of planet formation and composition around low-mass stars and brown dwarfs https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz3007/5610229 Collapse of the General Circulation in Shortwave-absorbing Atmospheres: An Idealized Model Study https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab4c43 Layered Uncertainty in…

JWST schedule margin shrinks https://spacenews.com/jwst-schedule-margin-shrinks/ TESS Asteroseismology of the known red-giant host stars HD 212771 and HD 203949 https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.05961 Planet and star synergy at high-spectral resolution. A rationale for the…

Discarding orbital decay in WASP-19b after one decade of transit observations https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.11930 Exomoons in the habitable zones of M dwarfs https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.12054 Fast and Precise Light Curve Model for Transiting Exoplanets…

Earth as an exoplanet mission concept for a lunar orbiting cubesat https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/Journal-of-Astronomical-Telescopes-Instruments-and-Systems/volume-5/issue-4/044004/Earth-as-an-exoplanet-mission-concept-for-a-lunar-orbiting/10.1117/1.JATIS.5.4.044004.short Life in the Universe: Expectations and Constraints https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783540768166 Host Stars and their Effects on Exoplanet Atmospheres: An Introductory…

The Shadow Biosphere Hypothesis: Non-knowledge in Emerging Disciplines https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0162243919881207 Europe dreams big for future space missions https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6464/410 Susceptibility of planetary atmospheres to mass loss and growth by planetesimal impacts: the…

Breakthrough Listen to Collaborate with Scientists from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) Team to Look for Signs of Advanced Extraterrestrial Life https://breakthroughinitiatives.org/news/27 Telescope seeks clues to exoplanet interiors https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6462/169…

Simulation of an Antimatter Beam Core Engine for Space Travel https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation.aspx?paperid=95763 ESA Voyage 2050 white paper — Faint objects in motion: the new frontier of high precision astrometry https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.08028 How…

Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds https://exoplanets.psu.edu/ No further evidence for a transiting inner companion to the hot Jupiter HATS‐50b https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.201913649 Revised Astrometric Calibration of the Gemini Planet Imager https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.08659…

Percolation clusters of organics in interstellar ice grains as the incubators of life https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0079610718301664 Are 2I/Borisov and Oort Cloud Comets Alike? https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.08208 A super-Earth and a mini-Neptune around Kepler-59 https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.08522…

Oxygen fugacities of extrasolar rocks: Evidence for an Earth-like geochemistry of exoplanets https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6463/356 Constraints on the Occurrence and Distribution of 1–20 M Jup Companions to Stars at Separations of 5–5000…

Didier Queloz, Physics Nobel Prize Winner 2019, Is Developing an Advanced Terrestrial Planet Hunter for the Isaac Newton Telescope http://www.ing.iac.es/PR/press/Nobel_Prize_2019.html Planet2 / RESCEU Symposium 2019: From Protoplanetary Disks through Planetary…

On‐the‐fly calculation of absorbed and equivalent atmospheric radiation dose in a water phantom with the AtRIS https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2019JA026622 Capture of interstellar objects: a source of long-period comets https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.06338 Exporting Terrestrial Life…

Exoclimes V 2019: The Diversity of Planetary Atmospheres, Oxford University https://www.spacetv.net/exoclimes-v-conference-2019-oxford-university/ Nearly polar orbit of the sub-Neptune HD 3167 c – Constraints on the dynamical history of a multi-planet system…

Helical Engine https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20190029657 Characterization of a Non-Stationary Spherical Inflated Light Sail for Ultra-Fast Interstellar Travel by Using Commercial 3D Codes https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328028194_Characterization_of_a_Non-Stationary_Spherical_Inflated_Light_Sail_for_Ultra-Fast_Interstellar_Travel_by_Using_Commercial_3D_Codes The Problem of Identifying Possible Signals of Extra-Terrestrial Civilizations…

Electron cross-field transport mechanism observed under the azimuthally inhomogeneous neutral supply in a Hall thruster https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336231329 PEXO: a global modeling framework for nanosecond timing, microsecond astrometry, and μm/s radial velocities…

A PSF-based Approach to TESS High quality data Of Stellar clusters (PATHOS) — I. Search for exoplanets and variable stars in the field of 47 Tuc https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.03592 In the Presence…

The space-soup theory of life: Tiny primordial soups on interstellar dust https://figshare.com/articles/The_space_soup_theory_of_life_Tiny_primordial_soups_on_interstellar_dust/1340126 NASA Gets a Rare Look at a Rocky Exoplanet’s Surface http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/news/2192-ssc2019-14-NASA-Gets-a-Rare-Look-at-a-Rocky-Exoplanet-s-Surface The Possible Astrometric Signature of a Planetary-mass…

A Ghost in the Toast: TESS Background Light Produces a False “Transit” Across τ Ceti https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab49ff Analyzing Eight Years of Transiting Exoplanet Observations Using WFC3’s Spatial Scan Monito https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.02073 Climate…

Biosignatures Search in Habitable Planets https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4434/7/4/82 The Search for Planets Around Other Stars: An Introductory Resource Guide for College Instructors https://www.academia.edu/24164361/The_Search_for_Planets_Around_Other_Stars_An_Introductory_Resource_Guide_for_College_Instructors Detection of He I 10830 Å~ absorption during the…

Characterization of a Rotational Thrust Balance for Propellantless Propulsion Concepts Utilizing Magnetic Levitation with Superconductors https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335995569_Characterization_of_a_Rotational_Thrust_Balance_for_Propellantless_Propulsion_Concepts_Utilizing_Magnetic_Levitation_with_Superconductors The influence of inclinations on the dynamical stability of multi-planet systems https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/490/1/359/5580891/ The Escape…

Helios-r.2 — A new Bayesian, open-source retrieval model for brown dwarfs and exoplanet atmospheres https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.01070 Life on Miller’s Planet: The Habitable Zone Around Supermassive Black Holes https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.00940

The Precision of Mass Measurements Required for Robust Atmospheric Characterization of Transiting Exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.00076 Rapid escape of ultra-hot exoplanet atmospheres driven by Hydrogen Balmer absorption https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.00267 Toward the Analysis of…

The polarimetric imaging mode of VLT/SPHERE/IRDIS I: Description, data reduction and observing strategy https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.13107 The polarimetric imaging mode of VLT/SPHERE/IRDIS II: Characterization and correction of instrumental polarization effects https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.13108 Exoplanet…

The Lost Planets: Peter van de Kamp and the Vanishing Exoplanets around Barnard’s Star https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/lost-planets The Habitability of GJ 357D: Possible Climate and Observability https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab3d40 What is Transiting HD 139139?…

A giant exoplanet orbiting a very-low-mass star challenges planet formation models https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.12174 Nucleobase synthesis in interstellar ices https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12404-1 Kojima-1Lb is a Mildly Cold Neptune around the Brightest Microlensing Host Star…

Exoplanet Habitability: Potential O2/O3 Biosignatures in the Ultraviolet https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S003809461905006X Spin-orbit coupling for close-in planets https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2019/10/aa36336-19/aa36336-19.html Clues to Understanding the Microphysics of Dust in the Interstellar Comet C/2019 Q4 (Borisov) https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab46a6…

Looking for Lurkers: Co-orbiters as SETI Observables https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab3e35 Naming of New Interstellar Visitor: 2I/Borisov https://www.iau.org/news/pressreleases/detail/iau1910/ WFIRST Space Telescope Fitted for ‘Starglasses’ https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/wfirst-space-telescope-fitted-for-starglasses Performance and Early Science with the Subaru Coronagraphic…

A possibly inflated planet around the bright young star DS Tucanae A https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2019/10/aa35598-19/aa35598-19.html Ouamuamua (A/2017U1), Panspermia, and Intelligent Life in the Universe http://www.isaacpub.org/4/1883/4/3/08/2019/AdAp.html Three Red Suns in the Sky: A…

Principles of Space Anthropology https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-030-25021-8 Prevalence of Fibonacci numbers in orbital period ratios in solar planetary and satellite systems and in exoplanetary systems https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10509-019-3649-2 Transition from eyeball to snowball driven…

Interstellar Visitors: A Physical Characterization of Comet C/2019 Q4 (Borisov) with OSIRIS at the 10.4 m GTC https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab449c Static Traversable Wormholes in f(R,T) = R + 2α lnT Gravity https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0577907319309141 The…

Solar Sail Propulsion Status https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20190030798.pdf Expected performances of the Characterising Exoplanet Satellite (CHEOPS) III. Data reduction pipeline: architecture and simulated performances https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.08363 DESTINY: Database for the Effects of STellar encounters…

Beyond the exoplanet mass-radius relation https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.07392 Energy Budgets for Terrestrial Extrasolar Planets https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.07418 An Automated Method to Detect Transiting Circumbinary Planets https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.07443 Predicting the Yield of Potential Venus Analogs from…

Red Dwarfs https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-25550-3 On the interstellar Von Neumann micro self-reproducing probes https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.05078 ARIEL exoplanet mission celebrates machine learning challenge and citizen science launch https://www.europlanet-society.org/ariel-exoplanet-mission-celebrates-machine-learning-challenge-and-citizen-science-launch/ ARIEL Space Mission https://arielmission.space/ ExoClock https://ariel-gbfu.azurewebsites.net/…

Beam propagation simulation of large phased laser arrays https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/11107/111070O/Beam-propagation-simulation-of-large-phased-laser-arrays/10.1117/12.2528931.short SEEJ: SmallSat Exosphere Explorer of Hot Jupiters https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/11118/111180E/SEEJ-SmallSat-Exosphere-Explorer-of-Hot-Jupiters/10.1117/12.2529380.short Enabling a Near-Term Interstellar Probe with the NASA’s Space Launch System https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20190030464.pdf Hill…

Newly Discovered Comet Is Likely Interstellar Visitor https://www.space.com/possible-interstellar-comet-identified.html MPEC 2019-R106 : Comet C/2019 Q4 (Borisov) https://minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K19/K19RA6.html Interstellar comet 2I/Borisov https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.05851 Fast and precise light curve model for transiting exoplanets with…

Water vapour in the atmosphere of the habitable-zone eight-Earth-mass planet K2-18 b https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.05218 He I λ 10 830 Å in the transmission spectrum of HD209458 b https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2019/09/aa35979-19/aa35979-19.html Wōtan: Comprehensive Time-series Detrending in…

The Climates of Other Worlds: A Review of the Emerging Field of Exoplanet Climatology https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.04046 Dynamical Interactions in the Planetary System GJ4276 https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.04059 Model of the Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence…

Angles-Only EKF Navigation for Hyperbolic Flybys https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/7608/ Is Interstellar Travel Really Possible? https://www.space.com/is-interstellar-travel-possible.html Parameterizing the Search Space of Starshade Fuel Costs for Optimal Observation Schedules https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.G003747 2.5-D retrieval of atmospheric…

Measuring the Orbital Parameters of Radial Velocity Systems in Mean-motion Resonance: A Case Study of HD 200964 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab3b02 Searching for Wide Companions and Identifying Circum(sub)stellar Disks through PSF Fitting of…