January 22, 2021 updates Autonomous Navigation of Relativistic Spacecraft in Interstellar Space https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.G005340 Tidal Dissipation in Dual-body, Highly Eccentric, and Nonsynchronously Rotating Systems: Applications to Pluto–Charon and the Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1e https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/abc0f3 H2SO4 and Organosulfur Compounds in Laboratory Analogue Aerosols of Warm High-metallicity Exoplanet Atmospheres https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/abc558 A search for a 5th planet around HR 8799 using the star-hopping RDI technique at VLT/SPHERE https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.08268 Sulfur Chemistry in the Atmospheres of Warm and Hot Jupiters https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.08327 The NASA High-Resolution Speckle Interferometric Imaging Program: Validation and Characterization of Exoplanets and Their Stellar Hosts https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.08378 A High-Contrast Search for Variability in HR 8799bc with VLT-SPHERE https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.08514 Speckle Observations of TESS Exoplanet Host Stars: Understanding the Binary Exoplanet Host Star Orbital Period Distribution https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.08671
January 21, 2021 updates Habitability: a process versus a state variable framework with observational tests and theoretical implications https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/abs/habitability-a-process-versus-a-state-variable-framework-with-observational-tests-and-theoretical-implications/25D9570A562B5AA20D54E6DD7524796E Around which stars can TESS detect Earth-like planets? The Revised TESS Habitable Zone Catalog https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.07898 Following up TESS Single Transits With Archival Photometry and Radial Velocities https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.07964 Observational constraints on the formation and evolution of Neptune-class exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.08025 Lucky planets: how circum-binary planets survive the supernova in one of the inner-binary components https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.08033 Characterisation of the hydrospheres of TRAPPIST-1 planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.08172
January 20, 2021 updates Terraforming the dwarf planet: Interconnected and growable Ceres megasatellite world https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.07487 Introduction to the Interstellar Medium https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/introduction-to-the-interstellar-medium/9811D1292C8FDC4E2D9C6F5ADE2FA306 Probing the capability of future direct imaging missions to spectrally constrain the frequency of Earth-like planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.07378 Polarization of hot Jupiter systems: a likely detection of stellar activity and a possible detection of planetary polarization https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.07411 Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE): I. Improved exoplanet detection yield estimates for a large mid-infrared space-interferometer mission https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.07500 Kepler-411 Differential Rotation from Three Transiting Planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.07692
January 19, 2021 updates LIStEN: L′ band Imaging Survey for Exoplanets in the North https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2021/01/aa39541-20/aa39541-20.html A multi-wavelength look at the GJ 9827 system — No evidence of extended atmospheres in GJ 9827 b and d from HST and CARMENES data https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.06277 Planet Occurrence Rate Correlated to Stellar Dynamical History: Evidence from Kepler Stars https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.06621 A Theoretical Framework for the Mass Distribution of Gas Giant Planets forming through the Core Accretion Paradigm https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.06714 A photospheric and chromospheric activity analysis of the quiescent retrograde-planet host ν Octantis A https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.06844 Physical Constraints on Motility with Applications to Possible Life on Mars and Enceladus https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.06876 The ExoGRAVITY project: using single mode interferometry to characterize exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.07098 Spectral signature of atmospheric winds in high resolution transit observations https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.07143
January 18, 2021 updates Feasibility assessment of deceleration technologies for interstellar probes https://www.researchgate.net/project/Feasibility-assessment-of-deceleration-technologies-for-interstellar-probes The curse of clouds https://academic.oup.com/astrogeo/article-abstract/62/1/1.36/6102751 Enhanced ion acceleration in the relativistic transparent regime due to the laser rising edge https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6587/abd4c2 Vertically resolved magma ocean–protoatmosphere evolution: H2, H2O, CO2, CH4, CO, O2, and N2 as primary absorbers https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020JE006711
January 14, 2021 updates Search for wormhole candidates in active galactic nuclei: radiation from colliding accreting flows https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.09411 Retraction Notice: Revised instellation patterns for close-in exoplanets https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/501/3/3846/6096437 A Search for Technosignatures around 31 Sun-like Stars with the Green Bank Telescope at 1.15–1.73 GHz https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abcc77 OGLE-2019-BLG-0960Lb: The Smallest Microlensing Planet https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.04696 A hot mini-Neptune in the radius valley orbiting solar analogue HD 110113 https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.04745 Exoplanet Imaging Data Challenge: benchmarking the various image processing methods for exoplanet detection https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.05080
January 13, 2021 updates Auto-correlation functions of astrophysical processes, and their relation to Gaussian processes – Application to radial velocities of different starspot configurations https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2021/01/aa39594-20/aa39594-20.html Atmospheric circulation of brown dwarfs and directly imaged exoplanets driven by cloud radiative feedback: global and equatorial dynamics https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.04417 Super-Earths, M Dwarfs, and Photosynthetic Organisms: Habitability in the Lab https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.04448 The complex interplay between tidal inertial waves and zonal flows in differentially rotating stellar and planetary convective regions I. Free waves https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.04656 The Copernican Principle Rules Out BLC1 as a Technological Radio Signal from the Alpha Centauri System https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.04118 The role of atmospheric outflows in the migration of hot Jupiters https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.04112 A Bayesian neural network predicts the dissolution of compact planetary systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.04117 Characterizing Atmospheres of Transiting Earth-like Exoplanets Orbiting M Dwarfs with James Webb Space Telescope https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.04139 NGTS-13b: A hot 4.8 Jupiter-mass planet transiting a subgiant star https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.04245
January 12, 2021 updates Heterogeneous Physical Chemistry in the Atmospheres of Earth, Mars, and Venus: Perspectives for Rocky Exoplanets https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsearthspacechem.0c00126 The Future Fusion of Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Big Histories https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14746700.2020.1869674 A Tale of Planetary Resurrection https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/a-tale-of-planetary-resurrection A survey of the linear polarization of directly imaged exoplanets and brown dwarf companions with SPHERE-IRDIS. First polarimetric detections revealing disks around DH Tau B and GSC 6214-210 B https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.04033 The atmosphere of HD 209458b seen with ESPRESSO. No detectable planetary absorptions at high resolution https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.04094 Searching for Small Circumbinary Planets I. The STANLEY Automated Algorithm and No New Planets in Existing Systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.03186 The Stars Kepler Missed: Investigating the Kepler Target Selection Function Using Gaia DR2 https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.03190 Impact of a moon on the evolution of a planet’s obliquity: a non-resonant case https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.03429
January 11, 2021 updates Intelligent messages in bacterial DNA – a sequel to SETI? http://physics.ruh.ac.lk/ab/pub/446.pdf Global Optimization Based Reference Star Differential Imaging for High-contrast Exoplanet Imaging Survey https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab022/6070633 TOI-1259Ab — a gas giant planet with 2.7% deep transits and a bound white dwarf companion https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.02707 Activity of the first interstellar comet 2I/Borisov around perihelion: Results from Indian observatories https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.02752 Atmosphere escape inferred from modelling the Hα transmission spectrum of WASP-121b https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.02905 The polarization-encoded self-coherent camera https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.02954 Inner and Outer Orbits in 13 Resolved Hierarchical Stellar Systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.02976
January 8, 2021 updates On the observed clustering of major bodies in solar and extrasolar subsystems https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.02241 Analyzing the Stability of Non-coplanar Circumbinary Planets using Machine Learning https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.02316
January 7, 2021 updates TESS Delivers Five New Hot Giant Planets Orbiting Bright Stars from the Full Frame Images https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.01726 HELIOS-K 2.0 Opacity Calculator and Open-source Opacity Database for Exoplanetary Atmospheres https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.02005 Pollux: A weak dynamo-driven dipolar magnetic field and implications for its probable planet https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.02016 BEAST begins: Sample characteristics and survey performance of the B-star Exoplanet Abundance Study https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.02043
January 6, 2021 updates Following up the Kepler field: Masses of Targets for transit timing and atmospheric characterization https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.01202 Starshade Rendezvous: Exoplanet Sensitivity and Observing Strategy https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.01272 Starshade Rendezvous: Exoplanet Orbit Constraints from Multi-Epoch Direct Imaging https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.01276 Possible Atmospheric Diversity of Low Mass Exoplanets, some Central Aspects https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.01277 NGTS-14Ab: a Neptune-sized transiting planet in the desert https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.01470 Masses and compositions of three small planets orbiting the nearby M dwarf L231-32 (TOI-270) and the M dwarf radius valley https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.01593
January 5, 2021 updates The Biological Study of Lifeless Worlds and Environments https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2020.2337 Challenges & Strategies for Supporting a Very Long Duration Mission https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2021-0483 Interstellar Probe – Goals and Challenges https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2021-0485 Needed Evolution in Part Reliability Approaches: from Voyager to Interstellar Probe https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2021-0486 An Optimal Navigation Filter for Relativistic Spacecraft https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2021-1868 Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth https://www.amazon.com/Extraterrestrial-First-Intelligent-Beyond-Earth/dp/0358278147/ Metastable Helium Absorptions with 3D Hydrodynamics and Self-Consistent Photochemistry I: WASP-69b, Dimensionality, XUV Flux Level, Spectral Types, and Flares https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.00042 Metastable Helium Absorptions with 3D Hydrodynamics and Self-Consistent Photochemistry II: WASP-107b, Stellar Wind, Radiation Pressure, and Shear Instability https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.00045 The Hubble WFC3 Emission Spectrum of the Extremely-Hot Jupiter, KELT-9b https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.00469 Polarized radiation and the Emergence of Biological Homochirality on Earth and Beyond https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.00530 CHEOPS observations of the HD\,108236 planetary system: A fifth planet, improved ephemerides, and planetary radii https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.00663
January 1, 2021 updates A Titan mission using the Direct Fusion Drive https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576520307475 Climate Diversity in the Solar-Like Habitable Zone due to Varying Background Gas Pressure https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.02355
December 31, 2020 updates Guide star catalog generation of star sensors for interstellar navigation https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/Journal-of-Astronomical-Telescopes-Instruments-and-Systems/volume-6/issue-4/044006/Guide-star-catalog-generation-of-star-sensors-for-interstellar-navigation/10.1117/1.JATIS.6.4.044006.short The Self Indication Assumption for the Assessment of the Earliest Window and the Nearest Extraterrestrial Civilization and Overall landscape Analysis for All Possible Detection Scenarios https://www.researchgate.net/publication/346959872_The_Self_Indication_Assumption_for_the_Assessment_of_the_Earliest_Window_and_the_Nearest_Extraterrestrial_Civilization_and_Overall_landscape_Analysis_for_All_Possible_Detection_Scenarios Physical Parameters of the Multiplanet Systems HD 106315 and GJ 9827 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abca39
December 30, 2020 updates Migration of Hot Jupiters Induced by Atmosphere Outflow https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063772920120069 Origin of Life https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9780470015902.a0029235
December 29, 2020 updates TOI-257b (HD 19916b): A Warm sub-Saturn Orbiting an Evolved F-type Star https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa3960/6054535 Host star metallicity of directly imaged wide-orbit planets: implications for planet formation https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.13694 Contrast and Temperature Dependence of Multi-Epoch High-Resolution Cross-Correlation Exoplanet Spectroscopy https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.14068 Model Optimization for Deep Space Exploration via Simulators and Deep Learning https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.14092 Are extrasolar Einstein’s spinning tops habitable? https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.14245
December 25, 2020 updates High burial efficiency is required to explain mass balance in Earth’s early carbon cycle https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020GB006707 Finding exoplanets in the habitable zone with light echoes https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/11448/2559345/Finding-exoplanets-in-the-habitable-zone-with-light-echoes/10.1117/12.2559345.short Close stellar encounters kicking planets out of habitable zone in various stellar environments https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.10595 Rendezvous Mission for Interstellar Objects Using a Solar Sail-based Statite Concept https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.12935 Three-dimensional continuum radiative transfer of polarized radiation in exoplanetary atmospheres https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.12992
December 24, 2020 updates Photonic Laser Thruster: 100 Times Scaling-Up and Propulsion Demonstration https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/1.B38144 Exotic Fluids Matching the Stress-Energy Tensor of Alcubierre Warp Drive Spacetimes https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.09941 Semi-analytical model for planetary resonances: application to planets around single and binary stars https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.12296 The Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer: Phase I fiber injection unit early performance and commissioning https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.12318
December 23, 2020 updates Hot Jupiter and Ultra-cold Saturn Formation in Dense Star Clusters https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abc619 Exoplanet imaging data challenge: benchmarking the various image processing methods for exoplanet detection https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/11448/2574803/Exoplanet-imaging-data-challenge–benchmarking-the-various-image-processing/10.1117/12.2574803.short Performance study of interferometric small-sats to detect exoplanets: updated exoplanet yield and application to nearby exoplanets https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/11446/2562119/Performance-study-of-interferometric-small-sats-to-detect-exoplanets/10.1117/12.2562119.short The Fundamental Connections Between the Solar System and Exoplanetary Science https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.11628 Magnetospheres of Terrestrial Exoplanets and Exomoons: Implications for Habitability and Detection https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.11694 Semi-Empirical Modeling of the Atmospheres of the M Dwarf Exoplanet Hosts GJ 832 and GJ 581 https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.11738 MOVES IV. Modelling the influence of stellar XUV-flux, cosmic rays, and stellar energetic particles on the atmospheric composition of the hot Jupiter HD 189733b https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.12132
December 22, 2020 updates Models of Disability as Models of First Contact https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/11/12/676 Navigation Using Pulsars and Other Variable Celestial Sources https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781119458555.ch52 Persistence of flare-driven atmospheric chemistry on rocky habitable zone worlds https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-01264-1 Determining the true mass of radial-velocity exoplanets with Gaia – Nine planet candidates in the brown dwarf or stellar regime and 27 confirmed planets https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2021/01/aa39168-20/aa39168-20.html Earth as a Proxy Exoplanet: Deconstructing and Reconstructing Spectrophotometric Light Curves https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.10556 Hydrodynamic Escape of Mineral Atmosphere from Hot Rocky Exoplanet. I. Model Description https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.10605 TESS Asteroseismology of α Mensae: Benchmark Ages for a G7 Dwarf and its M-dwarf Companion https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.10797 ogle-2017-blg-1049: another giant planet microlensing event https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.11080 Detectability of biosignatures on LHS 1140 b https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.11426
December 21, 2020 updates Planetary Diversity: Rocky planet processes and their observational signatures https://iopscience.iop.org/book/978-0-7503-2140-2 Warp Drive and the Kardashev Scale: Our Competence of Travelling Faster than Light https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344848513_Warp_Drive_and_the_Kardashev_Scale_Our_Competence_of_Travelling_Faster_than_Light When Is Life a Viable Hypothesis? The Case of Venusian Phosphine https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2020.2390 Breakthrough Propulsion Study — Assessing Interstellar Challenges and Prospects https://jbis.org.uk/paper/2020.73.427 Technological Challenges in Low-Mass Interstellar Probe Communication https://jbis.org.uk/paper/2020.73.438 Survivability of Metallic Shields for Relativistic Spacecraft https://jbis.org.uk/paper/2020.73.446 Interstellar Material within the Solar System https://jbis.org.uk/paper/2020.73.457 Ephemeris Refinement of the Exoplanet Candidate around the White Dwarf WD1856+534 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/abd480 Keys of a Mission to Uranus or Neptune, the Closest Ice Giants https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.09863 The GAPS Programme at TNG. XXX. No detection of reflected light from 51~Peg~b using optical high-resolution spectroscopy https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.10435
December 18, 2020 updates Understanding the Impacts of Stellar Companions on Planet Formation and Evolution: A Survey of Stellar and Planetary Companions within 25 pc https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.09190 The Influence of Age on the Relative Frequency of Super-Earths and Sub-Neptunes https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.09239 On the Scaling and Spacing of Extra-Solar Multi-Planet Systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.09431 The Tierras Observatory: An ultra-precise photometer to characterize nearby terrestrial exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.09744
December 17, 2020 updates JPL Work on a Gravitational Lensing Mission https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2020/12/16/jpl-work-on-a-gravitational-lensing-mission/ Solid tidal friction in multi-layer planets: Application to Earth, Venus, a Super Earth and the TRAPPIST-1 planets – Potential approximation of a multi-layer planet as a homogeneous body https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/12/aa38204-20/aa38204-20.html The Planet as Exoplanet Analog Spectrograph (PEAS): Design and First-Light https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.08675 Revisiting KELT-19Ab, WASP-156b and WASP-121b in the TESS Era https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.08744 Non-Sinusoidal Transit Timing Variations for the Exoplanet HAT-P-12b https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.08820 Update on the Preliminary Design of SCALES: the Santa Cruz Array of Lenslets for Exoplanet Spectroscopy https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.09098
December 16, 2020 updates K2 Targets Observed in TESS Cycles 1–3 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/abd39e A Statistical Estimation of the Occurrence of Extraterrestrial Intelligence in the Milky Way Galaxy https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.07902 The search for radio emission from the exoplanetary systems 55 Cancri, υ Andromedae, and τ Boötis using LOFAR beam-formed observations https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.07926 A Guide to Realistic Uncertainties on Fundamental Properties of Solar-Type Exoplanet Host Stars https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.07957 Effects of Spin-Orbit Resonances and Tidal Heating on the Inner Edge of the Habitable Zone https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.07996 RISTRETTO: a pathfinder instrument for exoplanet atmosphere characterization https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.08182 Are There Transit Timing Variations for the Exoplanet Qatar-1b ? https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.08184 Estimating low-order aberrations through a Lyot coronagraph with a Zernike wavefront sensor for exoplanet imaging https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.08423 The TESS-Keck Survey II: An Ultra-Short Period Rocky Planet and its Siblings Transiting the Galactic Thick-Disk Star TOI-561 https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.03071
December 15, 2020 updates Gravitational Lensing and Optical Geometry: A Centennial Perspective https://www.mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/3200 Bridge To The Stars: A Mission Concept And Policy To Enable An Inner Solar System Encounter With An Interstellar Object https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020EPSC…14..575L/abstract Radio observations of HD 80606 near planetary periastron – II. LOFAR low band antenna observations at 30–78 MHz https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/12/aa38746-20/aa38746-20.html Formation of Ultra-short-period Planets by Obliquity-driven Tidal Runaway https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abc4e5 Lava Worlds: From Early Earth to Exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.07337 Exoplanets through extreme optics: from PLATO to SHARK-NIR https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.06672 DiskFM: A Forward Modeling Tool for Disk Analysis with Coronagraphic Instruments https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.06790 Optimizing MARVEL for the radial velocity follow-up of TESS and PLATO transiting exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.07137 ExoClock Project: An open platform for monitoring the ephemerides of Ariel targets with contributions from the public https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.07478 Experimental analysis of the achromatic performance of a vector vortex coronagraph https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.07728 [attach 1]
December 14, 2020 updates Anomalous Sun Flyby of 1I/2017 U1 (`Oumuamua) https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4434/8/4/83 On the scaling and spacing of extra-solar multi-planet systems https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10509-020-03899-y Hibernating lemurs may be the key to cryogenic sleep for human space travel https://theconversation.com/hibernating-lemurs-may-be-the-key-to-cryogenic-sleep-for-human-space-travel-148408 Bridge to the stars: A mission concept to an interstellar object https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0032063320303500 Stellar Winds Drive Strong Variations in Exoplanet Evaporative Outflows and Transit Absorption Signatures https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.05922 Internal Water Storage Capacity of terrestrial Planets and the Effect of Hydration on the M-R Relation https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.06455
December 11, 2020 updates The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs – LP 714-47 b (TOI 442.01): populating the Neptune desert https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/12/aa38016-20/aa38016-20.html Detection of pre-industrial societies on exoplanets https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/abs/detection-of-preindustrial-societies-on-exoplanets/2F1C14870F756707F4808D2045AAA80C Speckle Imaging Characterization of Radial Velocity Exoplanet Systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.05253 Magnetic field and chromospheric activity evolution of HD75332: a rapid magnetic cycle in an F star without a hot Jupiter https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.05407 Combining Transit and RV: A Synthesized Population Model https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.05423 Image recovery with the solar gravitational lens https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.05477 Three-body capture, ejection, and the demographics of bound objects in binary systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.05875
December 10, 2020 updates Philosophical Thoughts on the Issue of a Potential Future Contact with an Extraterrestrial Civilization https://www.academia.edu/35988452/PHILOSOPHICAL_THOUGHTS_ON_THE_ISSUE_OF_A_POTENTIAL_FUTURE_CONTACT_WITH_AN_EXTRATERRESTRIAL_CIVILIZATION Giant Outer Transiting Exoplanet Mass (GOT ‘EM) Survey. I. Confirmation of an Eccentric, Cool Jupiter With an Interior Earth-sized Planet Orbiting Kepler-1514 https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.04676 Spectroscopic fourth-order coronagraph for the characterization of terrestrial planets at small angular separations from host stars https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.04779 Revisiting the HD 21749 Planetary System with Stellar Activity Modeling https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.04873 Improving the RSM map exoplanet detection algorithm: PSF forward modelling and optimal selection of PSF subtraction techniques https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.05094
December 9, 2020 updates Solar Gravitational Lens (SGL) for Biosignatures, SETI, and Interstellar Telecommunications https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/play/Dz8IKzYNKrRMnO_WztA6eXetafaiGUhcYQnjw95uI5Gebl3S8kdeNzvXD4NDh5vwXH-8_mWYfOQtdFcF.7lemH6kqbXMgtx0C A Flare-type IV Burst Event from Proxima Centauri and Implications for Space Weather https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abca90 ARES IV: Probing the Atmospheres of the Two Warm Small Planets HD 106315c and HD 3167c with the HST/WFC3 Camera https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abc3c8 Characterization of a multi-etalon array for ultra-high resolution spectroscopy https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.04007 Detecting and characterizing close-in exoplanets with Vortex Fiber Nulling https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.04239 Planet cartography with neural learned regularization https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.04460
December 8, 2020 updates Slow Biospheres: Habitability over the Longue Durée https://youtu.be/C2cyeGIJTnw Using Earth’s history to inform the search for life on exoplanets https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2020/12/08/using-earths-history-inform-search-life-exoplanets Architectures of Exoplanetary Systems. II. An Increase in Inner Planetary System Occurrence toward Later Spectral Types for Kepler’s FGK Dwarfs https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abc68b An Integrated Analysis with Predictions on the Architecture of the τ Ceti Planetary System, Including a Habitable Zone Planet https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abc560 A medium-resolution spectrum of the exoplanet HIP 65426 b https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.02798 Formation of multiple-planet systems in resonant chains around M dwarfs https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.03469 Parking planets in circumbinary discs https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.03651
December 7, 2020 updates Distinguishing Between Biological and Machine Civilization Techno-signatures https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2020/12/04/distinguishing-between-biological-and-machine-civilization-techno-signatures/ Space, the Final Frontier: In the Scientific Pursuit of Extraterrestrial Life Away from Earth https://www.academia.edu/42678316/Space_the_Final_Frontier_In_the_Scientific_Pursuit_of_Extraterrestrial_Life_Away_from_Earth Extremophiles as Astrobiological Models https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119593096 No escaping helium from 55 Cnc e https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.02198 Decaying Orbit of the Hot Jupiter WASP-12b: Confirmation with TESS Observations https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.02211 A Distinct Population of Small Planets: Sub-Earths https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.02273 A Newtonian model for the WASP-148 exoplanetary system enhanced with TESS and ground-based photometric observations https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.02602
December 4, 2020 updates Searching for Possible Exoplanet Transits from BRITE Data through a Machine Learning Technique https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/abbb24 A Word of Caution About Exoplanet Archival Data https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/abcf4d Refined System Ephemeris for Four Transiting Hot Jupiters using Ground-Based and TESS Observations https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.01486 Overview and Reassessment of Noise Budget of Starshade Exoplanet Imaging https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.01609 Monitoring the radio emission of Proxima Centauri https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.02116
December 3, 2020 updates Evidence for post-nebula volatilisation in an exo-planetary body https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0012821X20306385 The Chemistry of Extrasolar Planets https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B978008102908400151X The Exoplanet Transmission Spectroscopy Imager (ETSI) https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.00795 The Exomoon Corridor: Half of all exomoons exhibit TTV frequencies within a narrow window due to aliasing https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.00764 Hot Stars With Kepler Planets Have High Obliquities https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.00776 TARdYS: Design and Prototype of an Exoplanet Hunter for TAO using a R6 Echelle Grating https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.00809 Carbonate-Silicate Cycle Predictions of Earth-like Planetary Climates and Testing the Habitable Zone Concept https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.00819
December 2, 2020 updates High-Resolution Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy of GV Tau N: Surface Accretion and Detection of Ammonia in a Young Protoplanetary Disk https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.00016 Phase Modeling of the TRAPPIST-1 Planetary Atmospheres https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.00080 Prospects for Galactic and stellar astrophysics with asteroseismology of giant stars in the TESS Continuous Viewing Zones and beyond https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.00140 Ghosts of NEID’s Past https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.00182
December 1, 2020 updates Strategies for the Detection of ET Probes Within Our Own Solar System https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.12446 Broadband transmission spectroscopy of HD 209458b with ESPRESSO: evidence for Na, TiO, or both https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/12/aa39454-20/aa39454-20.html Exoplanet Detection using Machine Learning https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.14135 Characterization of M dwarfs Using Optical Mid-Resolution Spectra for Exploration of Small Exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.14521 Interstellar Objects Outnumber Solar System Objects in the Oort Cloud https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.14900 Phase Shift of Planetary Waves and Wave–Jet Resonance on Tidally Locked Planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.14553 Natural radioactive environments as sources of local disequilibrium for the emergence of life https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.14839 Exomoon Candidates from Transit Timing Variations: Eight Kepler systems with TTVs explainable by photometrically unseen exomoons https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.12997 Planet Hunters TESS II: Findings from the first two years of TESS https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.13944 3D simulations of photochemical hazes in the atmosphere of hot Jupiter HD 189733b https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.14022 Demography of galactic technosignatures https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.14147
November 30, 2020 updates Presumptuous Philosopher Proves Panspermia https://philarchive.org/archive/TURPPP-8 OWL-Moon in 2050 and beyond https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsta.2020.0187 Enshrouding & Star-planet Interactions in Close-orbiting Systems http://oro.open.ac.uk/73559/1/JDoherty_PhD-thesis_9-10-20.pdf Observational constraints on the likelihood of 26Al in planet-forming environments https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/12/aa39334-20/aa39334-20.html Project lyra: Catching 1I/‘Oumuamua–using Nuclear Thermal Rockets https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576520307141 On the Estimation of Circumbinary Orbital Properties https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.13376 WASP-107b’s density is even lower: a case study for the physics of planetary gas envelope accretion and orbital migration https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.13444 Non-tidal Coupling of the Orbital and Rotational Motions of Extended Bodies https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.13053
November 27, 2020 updates Observability of ultraviolet Ni lines in the atmosphere of transiting Earth‐like planets https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.202013842 HIRES, the high-resolution spectrograph for the ELT https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.12317
November 26, 2020 updates Ariel – a window to the origin of life on early earth? https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10686-020-09681-w A Search for Polarized Thermal Emission from Directly Imaged Exoplanets and Brown Dwarf Companions to Nearby Stars https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abc33d Critical review of chirality indicators of extraterrestrial life https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1387647320300725 TRAP: A temporal systematics model for improved direct detection of exoplanets at small angular separations https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.12311 XAO-assisted coronagraphy with SHARK NIR: from simulations to laboratory tests https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.12899 Unusual chemistry of the C-H-N-O system under pressure and implications for giant planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.12803
November 25, 2020 updates Geoforming Mars https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-58876-2 Bridging the Planet Radius Valley: Stellar Clustering as a Key Driver for Turning Sub-Neptunes into Super-Earths https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.11680 Ultra Short Period Planets in K2 III: Neighbors are Common with 12 New Multi-Planet Systems and 26 Newly Validated Planets in Campaigns 0-8, 10 https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.11698 The Origin of Chiral Life https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.12145 ESPRESSO high resolution transmission spectroscopy of WASP-76b https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.12197
November 24, 2020 updates Here’s Looking at You, MKID https://www.news.ucsb.edu/2020/020103/here-s-looking-you-mkid Precise radial velocities of giant stars – XIV. Evidence of planetary companions around HD 25723, 17 Sco, 3 Cnc, and 44 UMa https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/12/aa38285-20/aa38285-20.html Europium as a lodestar: diagnosis of radiogenic heat production in terrestrial exoplanets – Spectroscopic determination of Eu abundances in α Centauri AB https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/12/aa38386-20/aa38386-20.html Architectures of Exoplanetary Systems. III. Eccentricity and Mutual Inclination Distributions of AMD-stable Planetary Systems https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abba18 An Unusual Transmission Spectrum for the Sub-Saturn KELT-11b Suggestive of a Subsolar Water Abundance https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abc1e9 Is TiO emission present in the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-33b? A reassessment using the improved ExoMol Toto line list https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.10587 Refined Telluric Absorption Correction for Low-Resolution Ground-Based Spectroscopy: Resolution and Radial Velocity Effects in the O2 A-Band for Exoplanets and K I Emission Lines https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.10845 Application of the mixing length theory to assess the generation of melt in internally heated systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.11172 Peeking inside the Black Box: Interpreting Deep Learning Models for Exoplanet Atmospheric Retrievals https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.11284 TOI-519 b: a short-period substellar object around an M dwarf validated using multicolour photometry and phase curve analysis https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.11458 Formation and dynamics of water clouds on temperate sub-Neptunes: the example of K2-18b https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.11553 The Magellan-TESS Survey I: Survey Description and Mid-Survey Results https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.11560
November 23, 2020 updates The Timing of Evolutionary Transitions Suggests Intelligent Life Is Rare https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2019.2149 Spectropolarimetry of Primitive Phototrophs as Global Surface Biosignatures https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2020.2272 Gaia search for stellar companions of TESS Objects of Interest https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.202013825 Correcting the effect of stellar spots on ARIEL transmission spectra https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.10085 Methane as a dominant absorber in the habitable-zone sub-Neptune K2-18 b https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.10424 Orbital evolution of potentially habitable planets of tidally interacting binary stars https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.10430 1D atmospheric study of the temperate sub-Neptune K2-18b https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.10459 Evidence for chromium hydride in the atmosphere of Hot Jupiter WASP-31b https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.10558 Vetting of 384 TESS Objects of Interest with TRICERATOPS and Statistical Validation of 12 Planet Candidates https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.00691
November 20, 2020 updates Near-infrared Opacity of Late M Dwarfs and Hot Jupiters: The E 3Π–X 3Δ Transition of TiO https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abc24c JWST Transit Spectra. II. Constraining Aerosol Species, Particle-size Distributions, Temperature, and Metallicity for Cloudy Exoplanets https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abbc6c A Closer Look at Exoplanet Occurrence Rates: Considering the Multiplicity of Stars Without Detected Planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.09564
November 19, 2020 updates Kozai Migration Naturally Explains the White Dwarf Planet WD1856 b https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abc564 Survivor Bias: Divergent Fates of the Solar System’s Ejected versus Persisting Planetesimals https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abc55f A collage of small planets from the Lick Carnegie Exoplanet Survey : Exploring the super-Earth and sub-Neptune mass regime https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.08867 The Probability that a Rocky Planet’s Composition Reflects its Host Star https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.08893 Eccentricity Driven Climate Effects in the Kepler-1649 System https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.09074 Brightness modulations of our nearest terrestrial planet Venus reveal atmospheric super-rotation rather than surface features https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.09271
November 18, 2020 updates Oort cloud Ecology II: Extra-solar Oort clouds and the origin of asteroidal interlopers https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.08257 Influence of a Galactic Gamma-Ray Burst on Ocean Plankton https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.08433 Kepler-90: Giant transit-timing variations reveal a super-puff https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.08515 Hubble WFC3 Spectroscopy of the Habitable-zone Super-Earth LHS 1140 b https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.08815
November 17, 2020 updates Generation of Unbound Comets and Planets by Planetary Systems https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063772920110098 Finding Signs of Life on Transiting Earthlike Planets: High-resolution Transmission Spectra of Earth through Time around FGKM Host Stars https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abb9b2 Direct imaging of sub-Jupiter mass exoplanets with James Webb Space Telescope coronagraphy https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.07075 Multi-color photometry and parameters estimation of Jupiter-sized exoplanets; TRES-3b, WASP-2b and HATP-30b https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.07169 Detection of the hydrogen Balmer lines in the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-33b https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.07888
November 16, 2020 updates In search of radio emission from exoplanets: GMRT observations of the binary system HD~41004 https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.06843
November 13, 2020 updates Ariel moves from blueprint to reality https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Ariel_moves_from_blueprint_to_reality A data-driven approach to constraining the atmospheric temperature structure of the ultra-hot Jupiter KELT-9b https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/11/aa39061-20/aa39061-20.html A Mini-Neptune and a Radius Valley Planet Orbiting the Nearby M2 Dwarf TOI-1266 in Its Venus Zone: Validation with the Habitable-zone Planet Finder https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abbe19 An enhanced slope in the transmission spectrum of the hot Jupiter WASP-104b https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.06329 Evidence of a Clear Atmosphere for WASP-62b: the Only Known Transiting Gas Giant in the JWST Continuous Viewing Zone https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.06424 An approximation to determine the source of the WOW! Signal https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.06090
November 12, 2020 updates Observability of ultraviolet N I lines in the atmosphere of transiting Earth-like planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.05613 Resolving period aliases for TESS monotransits recovered during the extended mission https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.05832
November 11, 2020 updates Nondetection of Helium in the Upper Atmospheres of Three Sub-Neptune Exoplanets https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abbee6 The Demographics of Exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.04703 A Search for Technosignatures Around 31 Sun-like Stars with the Green Bank Telescope at 1.15-1.73 GHz https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.05265
November 10, 2020 updates First, Do Nothing: A Passive Protocol for First Contact https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S026596462030031X NASA Selects New Science Teams for Astrobiology Research https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-selects-new-science-teams-for-astrobiology-research Interdisciplinary Consortia for Astrobiology Research https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/research/astrobiology-at-nasa/icar/ Radiogenic Heating and Its Influence on Rocky Planet Dynamos and Habitability https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abc251 Life’s irreducible structure: Where are we, five decades later? https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bies.202000250 The Effect of Land Albedo on the Climate of Land-Dominated Planets in the TRAPPIST-1 System https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.03621 Broadband transmission spectroscopy of HD209458b with ESPRESSO: Evidence for Na, TiO, or both https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.03746 Identifying Bound Stellar Companions to Kepler Exoplanet Host Stars Using Speckle Imaging https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.03903 A Simplified Photodynamical Model for Planetary Mass Determination in Low-Eccentricity Multi-Transiting Systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.04404 Optical Verification Experiments of Sub-scale Starshades https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.04432
November 9, 2020 updates Predicting missing planets in multiplanet system populations via analytical assessments of dynamical packing https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.03053 ARES IV: Probing the atmospheres of the two warm small planets HD 106315 c and HD 3167 c with the HST/WFC3 camera https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.03221 Clouds in Exoplanetary Atmospheres https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.03302 Transmission spectroscopy for the warm sub-Neptune HD3167c: evidence for molecular absorption and a possible high metallicity atmosphere https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.03470
November 6, 2020 updates Earth as an Exoplanet. I. Time Variable Thermal Emission Using Spatially Resolved Moderate Imaging Spectroradiometer Data https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abbc15
November 5, 2020 updates PyLightcurve-torch: a transit modelling package for deep learning applications in PyTorch https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.02030 SPECULOOS — Ultracool Dwarf Transit Survey: Target List and Strategy https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.02069 Activity time series of old stars from late F to early K. V. Effect on exoplanet detectability with high-precision astrometry https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.02158 Generalized Stoichiometry and Biogeochemistry for Astrobiological Applications https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.02425
November 4, 2020 updates From Earth-Orbit Space Colonies to Deep-Space and Interstellar Habitats and Worldships: Solving the Economics https://jbis.org.uk/paper/2020.73.382 Effect of mantle oxidation state and escape upon the evolution of Earth’s magma ocean atmosphere https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/11/aa38779-20/aa38779-20.html A Fast, Two-dimensional Gaussian Process Method Based on Celerite: Applications to Transiting Exoplanet Discovery and Characterization https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abbc16 Atmospheric Rossiter-McLaughlin effect and transmission spectroscopy of WASP-121b with ESPRESSO https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.01245 The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs — LP 714-47b (TOI 442.01): Populating the Neptune desert https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.01716
November 3, 2020 updates The widest broadband transmission spectrum (0.38–1.71 μm) of HD 189733b from ground-based chromatic Rossiter–McLaughlin observations https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/11/aa39213-20/aa39213-20.html The eccentricity distribution of giant planets and their relation to super-Earths in the pebble accretion scenario https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/11/aa38856-20/aa38856-20.html Reflected Light Observations of the Galilean Satellites from Cassini: A Test Bed for Cold Terrestrial Exoplanets https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abb8df Dynamical Mass Estimates of the β Pictoris Planetary System through Gaussian Process Stellar Activity Modeling https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abba30 Identifying Exoplanets with Deep Learning. IV. Removing Stellar Activity Signals from Radial Velocity Measurements Using Neural Networks https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.00003 Separating planetary reflex Doppler shifts from stellar variability in the wavelength domain https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.00018 The Three Dimensional Flow Field Around Planets on Eccentric Orbits https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.00022 A new perspective on interiors of ice-rich planets: Ice-rock mixture rather than a layered structure https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.00602 Evaluating the Effect of Four Unknown Parameters Included in a Latitudinal Energy Balance Model on the Habitability of Exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.06907
November 2, 2020 updates Curvature Invariants for the Alcubierre and Natário Warp Drives https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.13693 Space travel by reduced effective mass after induced matter theory https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2020-4171 Design Reference Mission Development for Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Enabled Science Missions https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2020-4126 Laser Fusion Propulsion using Extreme CPA-Laser Pulses for Boron Fusion https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2020-4081 A Future for Leptonic Fuels https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2020-4204 The Pulsed Fission-Fusion (PuFF) Engine – Nacelle Concept and Development Roadmap https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2020-4082 In-Space Fabrication and Growth of Affordable Large Interior Rotating Habitats https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2020-4193 The Concept of Developmental Relativity: Thoughts on the Technological Synchrony of Interstellar Civilizations https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0265964620300333 Thresholds in origin of life scenarios https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004220309536 Evolutionary History of Bioessential Elements Can Guide the Search for Life in the Universe https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cbic.202000500 TOI 122b and TOI 237b, two small warm planets orbiting inactive M dwarfs, found by \textit{TESS} https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.15905 Lessons Learned from the 1st ARIEL Machine Learning Challenge: Correcting Transiting Exoplanet Light Curves for Stellar Spots https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.15996 HAT-P-68b: A Transiting Hot Jupiter Around a K5 Dwarf Star https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.16026
October 30, 2020 updates Atmospheric Nitrogen When Life Evolved on Earth https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2019.2212 WASP-127b: A misaligned planet with a partly cloudy atmosphere and tenuous sodium signature seen by ESPRESSO https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.15143 Temperature inversions on hot super-Earths: the case of CN in nitrogen-rich atmospheres https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.15152 Science Extraction from TESS Observations of Known Exoplanet Hosts https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.15164 Survivor bias: divergent fates of the Solar System’s ejected vs. persisting planetesimals https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.15147 WASP-186 and WASP-187: two hot Jupiters discovered by SuperWASP and SOPHIE with additional observations by TESS https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.15205 Effects of capturing a wide-orbit planet on planetary systems: system stability and Habitable Zone bombardment rates https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.15448
October 29, 2020 updates Hurricanes on tidally locked terrestrial planets: fixed surface temperature experiments https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/11/aa38203-20/aa38203-20.html An Integrated Analysis with Predictions on the Architecture of the tau Ceti Planetary System, Including a Habitable Zone Planet https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.14675 EXPRES. II. Searching for Planets Around Active Stars: A Case Study of HD 101501 https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.14717 The Occurrence of Rocky Habitable Zone Planets Around Solar-Like Stars from Kepler Data https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.14812 HADES RV Programme with HARPS-N at TNG XII. The abundance signature of M dwarf stars with planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.14867 Tidally induced stellar oscillations: converting modelled oscillations excited by hot Jupiters into observables https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.15053 Hydrogen dominated atmospheres on terrestrial mass planets: evidence, origin and evolution https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.15091 Effects of the stellar wind on the Ly-alpha transit of close-in planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.15094
October 28, 2020 updates Transmission spectroscopy and Rossiter-McLaughlin measurements of the young Neptune orbiting AU Mic https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/11/aa38583-20/aa38583-20.html Excalibur: A Non-Parametric, Hierarchical Wavelength-Calibration Method for a Precision Spectrograph https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.13786 Modelling the atmosphere of lava planet K2-141b: implications for low and high resolution spectroscopy https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.14101 The large-scale magnetic field of Proxima Centauri near activity maximum https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.14311 Atmosphere Models of Brown Dwarfs Irradiated by White Dwarfs: Analogues for Hot and Ultra-Hot Jupiters https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.14319 Revisiting migration in a disc cavity to explain the high eccentricities of warm Jupiters https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.14425 TOI-954 b and EPIC 246193072 b: Short-Period Saturn-Mass Planets that Test Whether Irradiation Leads to Inflation https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.14436 Breve historia de la astrobiología en Argentina https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.13883
October 27, 2020 updates Transit timing variation signature of planet migration: the case of K2-24 https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/11/aa39038-20/aa39038-20.html Rotational spectral modulation of cloudless atmospheres for L/T brown dwarfs and extrasolar giant planets https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/11/aa38771-20/aa38771-20.html The MKID Exoplanet Camera for Subaru SCExAO https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.12620 Insights into the planetary dynamics of HD 206893 with ALMA https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.12582 Light-Curve Evolution due to Secular Dynamics and the Vanishing Transits of KOI 120.01 https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.13051 Dynamical evolution of a young planetary system: stellar flybys in co-planar orbital configuration https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.13181 A Framework for Relative Biosignature Yields from Future Direct Imaging Missions https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.13762
October 26, 2020 updates Dynamical evolution of a young planetary system: stellar flybys in co-planar orbital configuration https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10509-020-03885-4 Spitzer Reveals Evidence of Molecular Absorption in the Atmosphere of the Hot Neptune LTT 9779b https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abbc70 Phase Curves of Hot Neptune LTT 9779b Suggest a High-metallicity Atmosphere https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abbc71 Search for planets in hot Jupiter systems with multi-sector TESS photometry. I. No companions in planetary systems KELT-18, KELT-23, KELT-24, Qatar-8, WASP-62, WASP-100, WASP-119, and WASP-126 https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.11977 Coexistence of CH4, CO2 and H2O in exoplanet atmospheres https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.12241 Evolution of a migrating giant planet in the presence of an inclined binary companion https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.12296
October 23, 2020 updates Connecting planet formation and astrochemistry – C/Os and N/Os of warm giant planets and Jupiter analogues https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/10/aa38767-20/aa38767-20.html Mapping the “long tail” of research funding: A topic analysis of NSF grant proposals in the division of astronomical sciences https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pra2.276 Do instabilities in high-multiplicity systems explain the existence of close-in white dwarf planets? https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.11403 Radial-velocity search and statistical studies for short-period planets in the Pleiades open cluster https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.11577 Tidal Dissipation in Dual-Body, Highly Eccentric, and Non-synchronously Rotating Systems: Applications to Pluto-Charon and the Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1e https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.11801 The nature and origins of sub-Neptune size planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.11867
October 22, 2020 updates Stellar clustering shapes the architecture of planetary systems https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2800-0 Giant Planets, Tiny Stars: Producing Short-Period Planets around White Dwarfs with the Eccentric Kozai-Lidov Mechanism https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.10534 Gemini Planet Imager Spectroscopy of the Dusty Substellar Companion HD 206893 B https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.10546 Did life originate from low-temperature areas of the Universe? https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.10905
October 21, 2020 updates Which stars can see Earth as a transiting exoplanet? https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/article/499/1/L111/5931805 The K2 and TESS Synergy. I. Updated Ephemerides and Parameters for K2-114, K2-167, K2-237, and K2-261 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aba964 Exoplanets and the Sun https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.09878 Revealing Short-period Exoplanets and Brown Dwarfs in the Galactic Bulge using the Microlensing Xallarap Effect with the \textit{Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope} https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.10315 Orbital Eccentricity — Multiplicity Correlation for Planetary Systems and Comparison to the Solar System https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.10371 WD 1856 b: a close giant planet around a white dwarf that could have survived a common-envelope phase https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.09747
October 20, 2020 updates An Exact, Generalized Laplace Resonance in the HR 8799 Planetary System https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abb881 Into the UV: The Atmosphere of the Hot Jupiter HAT-P-41b Revealed https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.08551 OGLE-2018-BLG-0799Lb: a Sub-Saturn-Mass Planet Orbiting a Very Low Mass Dwarf https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.08732 The Hubble PanCET Program: A Metal-rich Atmosphere for the Inflated Hot Jupiter HAT-P-41b https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.09659 Masses for Free-Floating Planets and Dwarf Planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.09671 Numerical Convergence of Hot-Jupiter Atmospheric Flow Solutions https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.09695
October 19, 2020 updates The need for laboratory work to aid in the understanding of exoplanetary atmospheres https://scholarworks.calstate.edu/concern/publications/jw827f98q Exploring Biogenic Dispersion Inside Star Clusters with System Dynamics Modeling https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202010.0232/v1 Traversable wormholes supported by non-exotic matter in general relativity https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1384107620302499 Hiding Planets behind a Big Friend: Resonant Planets with an Inclined External Companion https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.08046 Can Large-Scale Migration Explain the Giant Planet Occurrence Rate? https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.07949
October 16, 2020 updates Characterizing the possible interior structures of the nearby Exoplanets Proxima Centauri b and Ross-128 b https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa3110/5924464 As the Worlds Turn: Constraining Spin Evolution in the Planetary-Mass Regime https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.07315 Robust asteroseismic properties of the bright planet host HD 38529 https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.07323 KMT-2017-BLG-2820 and the Nature of the Free-Floating Planet Population https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.07527 A likely magnetic activity cycle for the exoplanet host M dwarf GJ 3512 https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.07715
October 15, 2020 updates Planetary system LHS 1140 revisited with ESPRESSO and TESS https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/10/aa38922-20/aa38922-20.html The cloudy shape of hot Jupiter thermal phase curves https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.06934 Clouds in Three-Dimensional Models of Hot Jupiters Over a Wide Range of Temperatures I: Thermal Structures and Broadband Phase Curve Predictions https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.06936 Statistics of the Chemical Composition of Solar Analog Stars and Links to Planet Formation https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.07241 Impossible moons — Transit timing effects that cannot be due to an exomoon https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.04230
October 14, 2020 updates Out of a Silent Planet https://geopolicraticus.tumblr.com/post/631920838097223680/out-of-a-silent-planet Abundance measurements of H2O and carbon-bearing species in the atmosphere of WASP-127b confirm its super-solar metallicity https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa3116/5922728 Search for radio emission from the exoplanets Qatar-1b and WASP-80b near 150 MHz using the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.06337 Exploring Super-Earth Surfaces: Albedo of Near-Airless Magma Ocean Planets and Topography https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.06433 Chemical Fingerprints of Formation in Rocky Super-Earths’ Data https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.06480
October 13, 2020 updates Coupled Day-Night Models of Exoplanetary Atmospheres https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa3143/5921219 Change in the brightness of interstellar comet 2I/Borisov https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0032063320303305 Statistical properties of habitable zones in stellar binary systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.05585 Kozai Migration Naturally Explains the White Dwarf Planet WD1856b https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.04724 Measuring Transit Signal Recovery in the Kepler Pipeline IV: Completeness of the DR25 Planet Candidate catalog https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.04796 The Color of Habitability https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.05046 Physically constrained causal noise models for high-contrast imaging of exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.05591
October 12, 2020 updates Exoplanet Hunting in Deep Space with Machine Learning https://www.journals.resaim.com/ijresm/article/view/323 Propulsion for Spacecrafts using on-board Laser Reflection and Absorption https://engrxiv.org/fh6ez/ Sun-as-a-star Spectral Irradiance Observations of Transiting Active Regions https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abadf9 Towards a more complex description of chemical profiles in exoplanets retrievals: A 2-layer parameterisation https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.11180 Direct confirmation of the radial-velocity planet β Pic c https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.04442 Solid tidal friction in multi-layer planets: Application to Earth, Venus, a Super Earth and the TRAPPIST-1 planets. Can a multi-layer planet be approximated as a homogeneous planet? https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.04587 Europium as a lodestar: diagnosis of radiogenic heat production in terrestrial exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.04632
October 9, 2020 updates Cardiovascular deconditioning during long-term spaceflight through multiscale modeling https://www.nature.com/articles/s41526-020-00117-5 Stable climates for temperate rocky circumbinary planets https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020JE006712 A Highly Eccentric Warm Jupiter Orbiting TIC 237913194 https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.03570 Microelectromechanical deformable mirror development for high-contrast imaging, part 2: the impact of quantization errors on coronagraph image contrast https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.03704 Mutual detectability: a targeted SETI strategy that avoids the SETI Paradox https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.04089 The TESS Phase Curve of KELT-1b Suggests a High Dayside Albedo https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.10292
October 8, 2020 updates Phase-curve Pollution of Exoplanet Transit Depths https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abac09 Mutual inclinations between giant planets and their debris discs in HD 113337 and HD 38529 https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.02961 Occurrence rates of small planets from HARPS: Focus on the Galactic context https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.03237 Matched filtering with non-Gaussian noise for planet transit detections https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.03470 Astrochemistry and compositions of planetary systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.03529 Interactive Visualization of Atmospheric Effects for Celestial Bodies https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.03534
October 7, 2020 updates The Isotopic Imprint of Life on an Evolving Planet https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-020-00730-6 Waterworlds May Have Better Climate Buffering Capacities than Their Continental Counterparts https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abb882 Observable Signatures of the Ejection Speed of Interstellar Objects from their Birth Systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.02214 Earth as an Exoplanet: I. Time variable thermal emission using spatially resolved MODIS data https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.02589
October 6, 2020 updates Lightweight metasurface mirror of silicon nanospheres https://www.osapublishing.org/ome/abstract.cfm?uri=ome-10-10-2706 Habitable worlds of merging stars https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/habitable-worlds-of-merging-stars/89F8F995D2C47BCEE4CD800E5A60D8F8 Expecting the unexpected in the search for extraterrestrial life https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/expecting-the-unexpected-in-the-search-for-extraterrestrial-life/6D49A34118730A6DBA09E41DF75A72B3 KELT-11 b: Abundances of water and constraints on carbon-bearing molecules from the Hubble transmission spectrum https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.01310 Finding Signs of Life on Earth-like Planets: High-resolution Transmission Spectra of Earth through time around FGKM stars https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.01734 K2-111: an old system with two planets in near-resonance https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.01993 Time-resolved rotational velocities in the upper atmosphere of WASP-33 b https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.02118 Spectropolarimetry of primitive phototrophs as global surface biosignatures https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.02133
October 5, 2020 updates Stability of P-type orbits around stellar binaries: an extension to counter-rotating orbits https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1384107620302475 EvryFlare III: Temperature Evolution and Habitability Impacts of Dozens of Superflares Observed Simultaneously by Evryscope and TESS https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.00604 A Comprehensive Reanalysis of Spitzer’s 4.5 μm Phase Curves, and the Phase Variations of the Ultra-hot Jupiters MASCARA-1b and KELT-16b https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.00687 A data-driven approach to constraining the atmospheric temperature structure of KELT-9b https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.00997 Refining the transit timing and photometric analysis of TRAPPIST-1: Masses, radii, densities, dynamics, and ephemerides https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.01074
October 2, 2020 updates CHESS: An innovative concept for high-resolution, far-UV spectroscopy https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10686-020-09670-z Direct confirmation of the radial-velocity planet β Pictoris c https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/10/aa39039-20/aa39039-20.html Unveiling the β Pictoris system, coupling high contrast imaging, interferometric, and radial velocity data https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/10/aa38823-20/aa38823-20.html Obliquity measurement and atmospheric characterisation of the WASP-74 planetary system https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/10/aa38703-20/aa38703-20.html A High-Cadence UV-Optical Telescope Suite On The Lunar South Pole https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.00007 Beyond Equilibrium Temperature: How the Atmosphere/Interior Connection Affects the Onset of Methane, Ammonia, and Clouds in Warm Transiting Giant Planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.00146 The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Three temperate to warm super-Earths https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.00474
October 1, 2020 updates Search for New Worlds at Home With NASA’s Planet Patrol Project https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/search-for-new-worlds-at-home-with-nasa-s-planet-patrol-project A precise architecture characterization of the π Mensae planetary system https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/10/aa38416-20/aa38416-20.html Search for Nearby Earth Analogs .III. Detection of 10 New Planets, 3 Planet Candidates, and Confirmation of 3 Planets around 11 Nearby M Dwarfs https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/abb139 The TESS-Keck Survey. III. A Stellar Obliquity Measurement of TOI-1726 c https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abb3bd How Does Background Air Pressure Influence the Inner Edge of the Habitable Zone for Tidally Locked Planets in a 3D View? https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abb87f VIBES: VIsual Binary Exoplanet survey with SPHERE Upper limits on wide S-planet and S-BD frequencies, triple system discovery, and astrometric confirmation of 20 stellar binaries and three triple systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.14528 Effect of mantle oxidation state and escape upon the evolution of Earth’s magma ocean atmosphere https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.14599 Application of Orbital Stability and Tidal Migration Constraints for Exomoon Candidates https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.14723
September 30, 2020 updates TOI 540 b: A Planet Smaller than Earth Orbiting a Nearby Rapidly Rotating Low-mass Star https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.13623 The Phase-curve Signature of Condensible Water-rich Atmospheres on Slowly Rotating Tidally Locked Exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.13638 Maintaining the Ephemeris of 20 CoRoT Planets: Transit Minimum Times and Potential Transit Timing Variations https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.14132 Determining the true mass of radial-velocity exoplanets with Gaia: 9 planet candidates in the brown-dwarf/stellar regime and 27 confirmed planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.14164 The Sun Diver: Combining solar sails with the Oberth effect https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.12659
September 29, 2020 updates Effects of Flux Variation on the Surface Temperatures of Earth-analog Circumbinary Planets https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa2980/5912456 A terrestrial-mass rogue planet candidate detected in the shortest-timescale microlensing event https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.12377 How Does Thermal Scattering Shape the Infrared Spectra of Cloudy Exoplanets? A Theoretical Framework and Consequences for Atmospheric Retrievals in the JWST era https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.12411 Detection of the Occultation of 55 Cancri e with TESS https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.12601 Lunar Opportunities for SETI https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.12689 An Ultra-Hot Neptune in the Neptune desert https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.12832 Hot Exoplanet Atmospheres Resolved with Transit Spectroscopy (HEARTS) VI. Non-detection of sodium with HARPS on the bloated super-Neptune WASP-127b https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.13386 The hot dayside and asymmetric transit of WASP-189b seen by CHEOPS https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.13403 A Titan mission using the Direct Fusion Drive https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.12621
September 28, 2020 updates The hot dayside and asymmetric transit of WASP-189 b seen by CHEOPS https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/forth/aa38677-20.pdf The path to instability in compact multi-planetary systems https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/09/aa38764-20/aa38764-20.html TESS Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets (THYME). III. A Two-planet System in the 400 Myr Ursa Major Group https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abae64 Constraints on the abundance of 0.01c stellar engines in the Milky Way https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.08874 The HD 217107 Planetary System: Twenty Years of Radial Velocity Measurements https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.12356
September 25, 2020 updates Revised instellation patterns for close-in exoplanets https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa2867/5909055 Integrating Light Curve and Atmospheric Modeling of Transiting Exoplanets https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abaabc Two Planets Straddling the Habitable Zone of The Nearby K dwarf Gl 414A https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344371776_Two_Planets_Straddling_the_Habitable_Zone_of_The_Nearby_K_dwarf_Gl_414A On the Temperature Profiles and Emission Spectra of Mini-Neptune Atmospheres https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.11290 The CHEOPS mission https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.11633 Stability Constrained Characterization of Multiplanet Systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.11831
September 24, 2020 updates Search for He I airglow emission from the hot Jupiter τ Boo b https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/09/aa38412-20/aa38412-20.html The Biological Universe: Life in the Milky Way and Beyond https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/biological-universe/4599E17C7FAAECE4A87038C62039C755 The Origin of Systems of Tightly Packed Inner Planets with Misaligned, Ultra-Short-Period Companions https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.10745 TESS Observations of the Hot Jupiter Exoplanet XO-6b: No Evidence of Transit Timing Variations https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.10781 Launching the VASCO citizen science project https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.10813
September 23, 2020 updates AQUA: A Collection of H2O Equations of State for Planetary Models https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.10098 HORuS transmission spectroscopy of 55 Cnc e https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.10122 Over 1300 new periodic signals detected in the first year of TESS with the weirddetector https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.10232 How many suns are in the sky? A SPHERE multiplicity survey of exoplanet host stars I — Four new close stellar companions including a white dwarf https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.10363 Discovery of a hot, transiting, Earth-sized planet and a second temperate, non-transiting planet around the M4 dwarf GJ 3473 (TOI-488) https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.10432 On The Compatibility of Ground-based and Space-based Data: WASP-96 b, An Example https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.10438 NGTS-12b: A sub-Saturn mass transiting exoplanet in a 7.53 day orbit https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.10620
September 22, 2020 updates In Search for a Planet Better than Earth: Top Contenders for a Superhabitable World https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2019.2161 An ultrahot Neptune in the Neptune desert https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1142-z M51-ULS-1b: The First Candidate for a Planet in an External Galaxy https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.08987 A Significant Increase in Detection of High-Resolution Emission Spectra Using a Three-Dimensional Atmospheric Model of a Hot Jupiter https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.09030 Dynamical Mass Estimates of the β Pictoris Planetary System Through Gaussian Process Stellar Activity Modelling https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.09276 TFAW survey. I. Wavelet-based denoising of K2 light curves. Discovery and validation of two new Earth-sized planets in K2 campaign 1 https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.09285 A numerical method for computing optimum radii of host stars and orbits of planets, with application to Kepler-11, Kepler-90, Kepler-215, HD 10180, HD 34445, and TRAPPIST-1 https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.09732 Theoretical vs. observational uncertainties: composition of giant exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.09746 On the interstellar origin of high-inclination Centaurs https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.09773 Going back to basics: accelerating exoplanet transit modelling using Taylor-series expansion of the orbital motion https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.09965
September 21, 2020 updates π Earth: A 3.14 day Earth-sized Planet from K2’s Kitchen Served Warm by the SPECULOOS Team https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aba95f Circular Binary Star and an Interstellar Interloper: The Analytical Solution https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1384107620303377 MOA-2009-BLG-319Lb: A Sub-Saturn Planet Inside the Predicted Mass Desert https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.08461 ACCESS: Confirmation of no potassium in the atmosphere of WASP-31b https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.08472 RoadRunner: a fast and flexible exoplanet transit model https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.08500 Multi-orbital-phase and multi-band characterization of exoplanetary atmospheres with reflected light spectra https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.08579 Oumuamuas passing through molecular clouds https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.08773 TOI-481 b & TOI-892 b: Two long period hot Jupiters from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.08881 WASP-117 b: an eccentric hot-Saturn as a future complex chemistry laboratory https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.08916 Novel Technosignatures https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.08873
September 17, 2020 updates A giant planet candidate transiting a white dwarf https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2713-y The White Dwarf Opportunity: Robust Detections of Molecules in Earth-like Exoplanet Atmospheres with the James Webb Space Telescope https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aba9d3 Exploration of trans-Neptunian objects using the Direct Fusion Drive https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576520305610 Abundant atmospheric methane from volcanism on terrestrial planets is unlikely and strengthens the case for methane as a biosignature https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.07761 On The Biomass Required To Produce Phosphine Detected In The Cloud Decks Of Venus https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.07835
September 16, 2020 updates GJ 357 b – A super-Earth orbiting an extremely inactive host star https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/09/aa38280-20/aa38280-20.html An Increase in Small-planet Occurrence with Metallicity for Late-type Dwarf Stars in the Kepler Field and Its Implications for Planet Formation https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.06638 Revisiting the Architecture of the KOI-89 System https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.06850 An exact, generalised Laplace resonance in the HR 8799 planetary system https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.07006 An Earth-like stellar wind environment for Proxima Centauri c https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.07266
September 15, 2020 updates Life in Extreme Environments: Insights in Biological Capability – Chapter 13: Analytical astrobiology: the search for life signatures and the remote detection of biomarkers through their Raman spectral interrogation https://www.amazon.com/Life-Extreme-Environments-Biological-Capability-ebook/dp/B08GG9S318/ Fine-Tuning in the Physical Universe – Chapter 12: On the Temporal Habitability of Our Universe https://www.amazon.com/Fine-Tuning-Physical-Universe-David-Sloan-ebook/dp/B08GG9RHHG/ Phosphine gas in the cloud decks of Venus https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1174-4 A search for He I airglow emission from the hot Jupiter tau Boo b https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.05821 Discriminating between hazy and clear hot-Jupiter atmospheres with CARMENES https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.06280 The Venusian Lower Atmosphere Haze as a Depot for Desiccated Microbial Life: A Proposed Life Cycle for Persistence of the Venusian Aerial Biosphere https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.06474 Phosphine on Venus Cannot be Explained by Conventional Processes https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.06499 Two Planets Straddling the Habitable Zone of The Nearby K dwarf Gl 414A https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.06503
September 14, 2020 updates Characterization of the K2-38 planetary system – Unraveling one of the densest planets known to date https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/09/aa38187-20/aa38187-20.html An ATA Search for a Repetition of the Wow Signal https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aba58f A Search for Rotation Periods in 1000 TESS Objects of Interest https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/aba73f What limits photosynthesis? Identifying the thermodynamic constraints of the terrestrial biosphere within the Earth system https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0005272820301535 The impact of life on climate stabilisation over different timescales https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020GC009105 Reflected Light Observations of the Galilean Satellites from Cassini: a testbed for cold terrestrial exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.05467
September 11, 2020 updates Can Self-Replicating Species Flourish in the Interior of a Star? https://osf.io/j6gux/ Precision radial velocity measurements by the forward-modeling technique in the near-infrared https://academic.oup.com/pasj/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/pasj/psaa085/5903842 A Search for FeH in Hot-Jupiter Atmospheres with High-Dispersion Spectroscopy https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.04474 Coupling thermal evolution of planets and hydrodynamic atmospheric escape in MESA https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.04948
Septermber 10, 2020 updates Peas in a Pod? Radius Correlations in Kepler Multiplanet Systems https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abab9e Measuring Transit Signal Recovery in the Kepler Pipeline. IV. Completeness of the DR25 Planet Candidate Catalog https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abab0b Eclipse timing variation of GK Vir: evidence of a possible Jupiter-like planet in a circumbinary orbit https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.03978 On the Possible Evolutionay History of the Water Ocean on Venus https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.04040 Evidence of Three Mechanisms Explaining the Radius Anomaly of Hot Jupiters https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.04291 Stellar Flares versus Luminosity: XUV-induced Atmospheric Escape and Planetary Habitability https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.04310 A super-Earth and a sub-Neptune orbiting the bright, quiet M3 dwarf TOI-1266 https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.04317
September 9, 2020 updates Dynamics of Colombo’s Top: Generating Exoplanet Obliquities from Planet-Disk Interactions https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.14380 Physical Parameters of the Multi-Planet Systems HD 106315 and GJ 9827 https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.03398
September 8, 2020 updates First Life in the Universe https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.01344 A SETI Survey of the Vela Region using the Murchison Widefield Array: Orders of Magnitude Expansion in Search Space https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.03267 An unusually low density ultra-short period super-Earth and three mini-Neptunes around the old star TOI-561 https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.02332 The quest for planets around subdwarfs and white dwarfs from Kepler space telescope fields: Part I. Techniques and tests of the methods https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.02749 The TESS-Keck Survey II: Masses of Three Sub-Neptunes Transiting the Galactic Thick-Disk Star TOI-561 https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.03071
September 7, 2020 updates SETI: the argument for artefact searches https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/seti-the-argument-for-artefact-searches/079216EEA0D45D396C9C139C559840AB Non-local thermodynamic equilibrium transmission spectrum modelling of HD 209458b https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/09/aa37672-20/aa37672-20.html Conformally symmetric traversable wormholes in f(R,T) gravity https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003491620302293 Direct characterization of young giant exoplanets at high spectral resolution by coupling SPHERE and CRIRES+ https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.01841 Interstellar communication network. II. Deep space nodes with gravitational lensing https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.01866 Astrophysical Simulations and Data Analyses on the Formation, Detection, and Habitability of Moons Around Extrasolar Planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.01881 The Galactic cosmic ray intensity at the evolving Earth and young exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.02173 On the origin of the eccentricity dichotomy displayed by compact super-Earths: dynamical heating by cold giants https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.02245
September 4, 2020 updates Quantum coherence to interstellar distances https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344037968_Quantum_coherence_to_interstellar_distances The High-Energy Radiation Environment Around a 10 Gyr M Dwarf: Habitable at Last? https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.01259 Utilizing a Database of Simulated Geometric Albedo Spectra for Photometric Characterization of Rocky Exoplanet Atmospheres https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.01330
September 3, 2020 updates Cosmology, astrobiology, and the RNA world: Just add quintessential water https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343858864_Cosmology_astrobiology_and_the_RNA_world_Just_add_quintessential_water The ExoMolOP Database: Cross-sections and k-tables for Molecules of Interest in High-Temperature Exoplanet Atmospheres https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.00687 The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs: Rubidium abundances in nearby cool stars https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.00876
September 2, 2020 updates Centro de Astrobiología: 20 Years Building Astrobiology https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2020.0804 The Influence of Stellar Phosphorus On Our Understanding of Exoplanets and Astrobiology https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.00009 Habitable Zones in Binary Star Systems: A Zoology https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.00144 On the evolution of global ocean tides https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.00204 The Equatorial Jet Speed on Tidally Locked Planets: I — Terrestrial Planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.00358
September 1 updates On the Detection and Characterization of Exomoons Through Survey and Targeted Observations https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/d8-fq1c-qd02 Dynamical Chaos in Planetary Systems https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-52144-8 Dust distribution around low-mass planets on converging orbits https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.13464 The ominous fate of exomoons around hot Jupiters in the high-eccentricity migration scenario https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.13778
August 31, 2020 updates Photometry of exoplanetary transits at Osservatorio Polifunzionale del Chianti https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10686-020-09669-6 Possible New Envelope Types of Hot Jupiters https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063772920080090 Seeing above the Clouds with High Resolution Spectroscopy https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa2424/5899070 Chemical Fingerprints of Formation in Rocky Super-Earths’ Data https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa2615/5899063 Retention of Long-period Gas Giant Planets: Type II Migration Revisited https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abaab6 TKS III: A Stellar Obliquity Measurement of TOI-1726 c https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.12397 The TOI-763 system: sub-Neptunes orbiting a Sun-like star https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.12535
August 28, 2020 updates TOI-824 b: A New Planet on the Lower Edge of the Hot Neptune Desert https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.11732 The effects of granulation and supergranulation on Earth-mass planet detectability in the habitable zone around F6-K4 stars https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.11952
August 27, 2020 updates Effects of Astrobiology Lectures on Knowledge and Attitudes about Science in Incarcerated Populations https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2019.2209 Humanly traversable wormholes https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.06618 The interstellar communication relay https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/interstellar-communication-relay/5539B6B1C914354FFB3E8F08399B03D8 Prospects for Characterizing the Haziest Sub-Neptune Exoplanets with High Resolution Spectroscopy https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.11299 Lithologic Controls on Silicate Weathering Regimes of Temperate Planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.11620 Fear the Shadows of the Giants: On Secular Perturbations in Circumstellar Habitable Zones of Double Stars https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.11651
August 26, 2020 updates Observational Constraints on the Formation and Evolution of Neptune-Class Exoplanets https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-020-00726-2 SPIRou: nIR velocimetry & spectropolarimetry at the CFHT https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa2569/5897365 2D Retrieval Frameworks for Hot Jupiter Phase Curves https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aba8f9 The Resilience of Habitable Climates Around Circumbinary Stars https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020JE006576 Stability of Planetary Motion in Binary Star Systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.11107 Improving Exoplanet Detection Power: Multivariate Gaussian Process Models for Stellar Activity https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.01318
August 25, 2020 updates Conceptual Interstellar Map and Status Panel Design https://scholarworks.rit.edu/theses/10559/ The Astrobiology of Alien Worlds: Known and Unknown Forms of Life https://www.mdpi.com/2218-1997/6/9/130/htm Exoplanet Validation with Machine Learning: 50 new validated Kepler planets https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa2498/5894933 Influence of C/O Ratio on Hot Jupiter Atmospheric Chemistry https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aba828 Haze Formation in Warm H2-rich Exoplanet Atmospheres https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.09700 A search for transiting planets around FGKM dwarfs and sub-giants in the TESS Full Frame Images of the Southern ecliptic hemisphere https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.09832 The Impact of Tidal Disruption Events on Galactic Habitability https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.09988 On the Orbital Spacing Pattern of Kepler Multiple Planet Systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.10051 More planetary candidates from K2 Campaign 5 by tran_k2 https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.10075 ‘Oumuamua as a Cometary Fractal Aggregate: the “Dust Bunny” Model https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.10083
August 24, 2020 updates Dust content solutions for the Alcubierre warp drive spacetime https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.06560 The Venusian Lower Atmosphere Haze as a Depot for Desiccated Microbial Life: A Proposed Life Cycle for Persistence of the Venusian Aerial Biosphere https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2020.2244 Convective Differential Rotation in Stars and Planets I: Theory https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.09125 Convective Differential Rotation in Stars and Planets II: Observational and Numerical Tests https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.09126 Surface and oceanic habitability of Trappist-1 planets under the impact of flares https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.09147 Four Microlensing Planets with Faint-source Stars Identified in the 2016 and 2017 Season Data https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.09258 The GAPS Programme at TNG XXVII. Reassessment of a young planetary system with HARPS-N: is the hot Jupiter V830 Tau b really there? https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.09445 Magma ocean evolution of the TRAPPIST-1 planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.09599
August 21, 2020 updates Design and analysis of a growable artificial gravity space habitat https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1270963820308294 A disk-driven resonance as the origin of high inclinations of close-in planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.08587 Stable Partial Ice Cover Possible for Any Obliquity: Effects of Obliquity, Albedo, and Heat Transport on Ice Cover Dynamics https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.08671 Isotopically distinct terrestrial planets via local accretion https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.08850
August 20, 2020 updates Monitoring of transiting exoplanets and their host stars with small aperture telescopes https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.08379
August 19, 2020 updates Evaluating Biosignatures for Life Detection https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2019.2151 TFAW survey. I. Wavelet-based denoising of K2 light curves. Discovery and validation of two new Earth-sized planets in K2 campaign 1 https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa2509/5894404 Stability of planetary, single M dwarf, and binary star companions to Kepler detached eclipsing binaries and a possible five body system https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.07731 Constraining the Bulk Composition of Disintegrating Exoplanets Using Combined Transmission Spectra from JWST and SPICA https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.07781 Search for Nearby Earth Analogs. III. Detection of ten new planets, three planet candidates, and confirmation of three planets around eleven nearby M dwarfs https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.07998
August 17, 2020 updates Curvature Invariants for the Accelerating Natario Warp Drive https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.03366 Passive shielding of space radiation for human exploration missions – Simulations and Radiation Tests https://iris.polito.it/handle/11583/2711122?mode=full.8023 The Multiplanet System TOI-421 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aba124 From the LIPS of a serial killer: Endogenic retardation of biological evolution on unstable stagnant-lid planets https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0032063320302816 Interstellar Now! Missions to and Sample Returns from Nearby Interstellar Objects https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343678500_Interstellar_Now_Missions_to_and_Sample_Returns_from_Nearby_Interstellar_Objects
August 14, 2020 updates A Featureless Infrared Transmission Spectrum for the Super-Puff Planet Kepler-79d https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.05480 The Nature of the Radius Valley: Hints from Formation and Evolution Models https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.05513 Paving the Way to Future Missions: the Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Technology Demonstration https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.05624 Strong Scatterings of Cold Jupiters and their Influence on Inner Low-mass Planet Systems: Theory and Simulations https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.05698 Detection Limits of Low-mass, Long-period Exoplanets Using Gaussian Processes Applied to HARPS-N Solar RVs https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.05970 Where are the Extrasolar Mercuries? https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.05992
August 13, 2020 updates The Gaia–Kepler Stellar Properties Catalog. II. Planet Radius Demographics as a Function of Stellar Mass and Age https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aba18a ARES. II. Characterizing the Hot Jupiters WASP-127 b, WASP-79 b, and WASP-62b with the Hubble Space Telescope https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab94a3 Could the Migration of Jupiter have Accelerated the Atmospheric Evolution of Venus? https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.04927 Effects of Flux Variation on the Surface Temperatures of Earth-like Circumbinary Planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.04992 The GALAH Survey: Using Galactic Archaeology to Refine our Knowledge of TESS Target Stars https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.05372 Early science with SPIRou: near-infrared radial velocity and spectropolarimetry of the planet-hosting star HD 189733 https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.05411 Project Lyra: Catching 1I/’Oumuamua Using Nuclear Thermal Rockets https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.05435 Optical Transmission Spectroscopy of the Terrestrial Exoplanet LHS 3844b from 13 Ground-Based Transit Observations https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.05444
August 12, 2020 updates Constraining Prebiotic Chemistry Through a Better Understanding of Earth’s Earliest Environments https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.04803
August 11, 2020 updates Human Enhancements for Space Missions https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-42036-9 MCNP Design of Radiation Shielding for Pulsed Fusion Propulsion https://search.proquest.com/openview/017c5c64b6e4486f3a1ef8c4bbbf2aa2/ Orbital and Flight Stability Models for Breakthrough Starshot’s AO System https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/642118 A naked gas giant https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1184-2 Monte Carlo estimation of the probability of causal contacts between communicating civilizations https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/monte-carlo-estimation-of-the-probability-of-causal-contacts-between-communicating-civilizations/E5CDEC05285A00DBA41E0A80C0F5FA03 Agent-based modelling of interstellar contacts using rumour spread models https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/agentbased-modelling-of-interstellar-contacts-using-rumour-spread-models/F223CB0F8C8CAA46C612155255B6CD05 The Importance of Local Interstellar Conditions on the Galactic Cosmic-Ray Spectrum at Exoplanets https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aba7c8 Astraea: Predicting Long Rotation Periods with 27-Day Light Curves https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.03351 Water worlds in N-body simulations with fragmentation in systems without gaseous giants https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.03594 An Independent Analysis of the Six Recently Claimed Exomoon Candidates https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.03613 Non-detection of O2/O3 informs frequency of Earth-like planets with LUVOIR but not HabEx https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.03952 Probing the atmosphere of HD189733b with the Na I and K I lines https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.04044
August 10, 2020 updates Observing The Growth Of Breathable O2 Producer In High And Low Pressure And Light Conditions https://spacegrant.oregonstate.edu/sites/spacegrant.oregonstate.edu/files/roodzack-5bf8q_presentation.pdf Power Beaming Leakage Radiation as a Technosignature Observable https://www.essoar.org/doi/abs/10.1002/essoar.10503872.1 Heat and charge transport in H2O at ice-giant conditions from ab initio molecular dynamics simulations https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17275-5 Ground-Based Transmission Spectroscopy with FORS2: A featureless optical transmission spectrum and detection of H2O for the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-103b https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa2307/5885344 Thermal Variations of Extremely Close-in Exoplanets https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/abacb9 The challenge of identifying interstellar meteors https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0032063320302737 Monitoring of transiting exoplanets and their host stars with small aperture telescopes https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1384107620301457 Multiple Explanations for the Single Transit of KIC 5951458 based on Radial Velocity Measurements Extracted with a Novel Matched-template Technique https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.02811 Tidal dissipation in evolving low-mass and solar-type stars with predictions for planetary orbital decay https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.03262
August 7, 2020 updates Pixel Level Decorrelation in Service of the Spitzer Microlens Parallax Survey https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa2245/5881942 The effect of galactic chemical evolution on terrestrial exoplanet composition and tectonics https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103520303869 A Large Repository of 3D Climate Model Outputs for Community Analysis and Postprocessing https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.02339 A white dwarf bound to the transiting planetary system WASP-98 https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.02533 Multiple Transits during a Single Conjunction: Identifying Transiting Circumbinary Planetary Candidates from TESS https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.02756 Inverse design of surfaces by deployable origami https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.02349
August 6, 2020 updates The Hubble Space Telescope’s Near-UV and Optical Transmission Spectrum of Earth as an Exoplanet https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aba0b4 Characterization of the Atmosphere of Super-Earth 55 Cancri e Using High-resolution Ground-based Spectroscopy https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aba1eb Planck Frequencies as Schelling Points in SETI https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.01817 A Library of Self-Consistent Simulated Exoplanet Atmospheres https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.01856 Venus as a Nearby Exoplanetary Laboratory https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.01888
August 5, 2020 updates An Astrometric Planetary Companion Candidate to the M9 Dwarf TVLM 513–46546 https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.01595 Primordial Radius Gap and Potentially Broad Core Mass Distributions of Super-Earths and Sub-Neptunes https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.01105 The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs — A deep learning approach to determine fundamental parameters of target stars https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.01186 A dayside thermal inversion in the atmosphere of WASP-19b https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.01288 The Habitability of the Galactic Bulge https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.01419
August 4, 2020 updates Inverse design of lightweight broadband reflector for relativistic lightsail propulsion https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsphotonics.0c00768 Low-albedo Surfaces of Lava Worlds https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab9cba Detection of Fe i Emission in the Dayside Spectrum of WASP-33b https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aba4b6 LRG-BEASTS: Ground-based Detection of Sodium and a Steep Optical Slope in the Atmosphere of the Highly Inflated Hot-Saturn WASP-21b https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.00971 Colour-magnitude diagrams of transiting Exoplanets — III. A public code, nine strange planets, and the role of Phosphine https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.00995 The dynamical evolution of close-in binary systems formed by a super-Earth and its host star. Case of the Kepler-21 system https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.10575
August 3, 2020 updates SETI and Democracy https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.13515 Planetary System from the Outer Edge of the Inner Void — Classes and Populations of Variety https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.15979 LOUPE: Observing Earth from the Moon to prepare for detecting life on Earth-like exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.16078
July 31, 2020 updates Search for TiO and Optical Nightside Emission from the Exoplanet WASP-33b https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab9e77 Physical Characterization of Interstellar Comet 2I/2019 Q4 (Borisov) https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab9df8 Integrating Machine Learning for Planetary Science: Perspectives for the Next Decade https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.15129 A transition between the hot and the ultra-hot Jupiter atmospheres https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.15287 Atmospheric Dynamics of Hot Giant Planets and Brown Dwarfs https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.15363 LBT transmission spectroscopy of HAT-P-12b: confirmation of a cloudy atmosphere with no significant alkali features https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.15485 Exoplanets Sciences with Nulling Interferometers and a Single-Mode Fiber-Fed Spectrograph https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.15529 Colors of an Earth-like exoplanet — Temporal flux and polarization signals of the Earth https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.15624
July 30, 2020 updates PTFO 8-8695: Two Stars, Two Signals, No Planet https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab9e73 Analytic Stability Maps of Unknown Exoplanet Companions for Imaging Prioritization https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab9b21 Exploring the Atmospheric Dynamics of the Extreme Ultrahot Jupiter KELT-9b Using TESS Photometry https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aba2cb Hurricane Genesis is Favorable on Terrestrial Exoplanets Orbiting Late-type M Dwarf Stars https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aba0b9 Laboratory Demonstration of Spatial Linear Dark Field Control For Imaging Extrasolar Planets in Reflected Light https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.14413 Architectures of Exoplanetary Systems: Eccentricity and Mutual Inclination Distributions of AMD-Stable Planetary Systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.14473 A Volatile-Poor Formation of LHS 3844b based on its Lack of Significant Atmosphere https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.14493
July 29, 2020 updates When “Boring” Stars Flare: The Ultraviolet Activity of GJ 887, a Bright M Star Hosting Newly Discovered Planets https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/aba94a Novel instellation calculations for close-in exoplanets https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343201369_Novel_instellation_calculations_for_close-in_exoplanets The Importance of Prioritizing Exoplanet Experimental Facilities https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.13924 TESS Reveals a Short-period Sub-Neptune Sibling (HD 86226c) to a Known Long-period Giant Planet https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.13927 KELT-17: a chemically peculiar Am star and a hot-Jupiter planet https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.14210 Demarcating circulation regimes of synchronously rotating terrestrial planets within the habitable zone https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.00435
July 28, 2020 updates Low-cost precursor of an interstellar mission https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.12814 ZigZag: A Memory-Centric Rapid DNN Accelerator Design Space Exploration Framework https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.11360 The Evolutionary Track of H/He Envelopes of the Observed Population of Sub-Neptunes and Super-Earths https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab9a4d Non-detection of Helium in the Upper Atmospheres of Three Sub-Neptune Exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.12968 Dynamical evolution of two-planet systems and its connection with white dwarf atmospheric pollution https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.13009 Bayesian Dynamic Mapping of an Exo-Earth from Photometric Variability https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.13096 Observing transiting exoplanets with the MicroObservatory: 43 new transit light curves of the hot Jupiter HAT-P-32b https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.13381 Efficiency of tidal dissipation in slowly rotating fully convective stars or planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.13392 Detection of Na in WASP-21b’s lower and upper atmosphere https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.13429 Unified simulations of planetary formation and atmospheric evolution II: Rapid disk clearing by photoevaporation yields low-mass super-Earth atmospheres https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.13717 EUV irradiation of exoplanet atmospheres occurs on Gyr timescales https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.13731 Zodiacal Exoplanets in Time. XI. The Orbit and Radiation Environment of the Young M Dwarf-Hosted Planet K2-25b https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.12701 Planetary candidates transiting cool dwarf stars from Campaigns 12 to 15 of K2 https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.12744 The Habitable-zone Planet Finder Reveals A High Mass and a Low Obliquity for the Young Neptune K2-25b https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.12766
July 27, 2020 updates Identifying Exoplanets Using Deep Learning and Predicting Their Likelihood of Habitability https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-15-5243-4_34 Alfnoor: A Retrieval Simulation of the Ariel Target List https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab9a53 Limits on the orbits of possible exomoons around Kepler giant planets in the habitable zone https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0032063319300182 Thermal and orbital evolution of low-mass exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.12459 Exobodies in Our Back Yard: Science from Missions to Nearby Interstellar Objects https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.12480 Habitability of M dwarfs is a problem for the traditional SETI https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.12645
July 23, 2020 updates Comments on the contending hypotheses about the origin of life https://web.ist.utl.pt/orfeu.bertolami/Comments_Origin_Life_2020.pdf Possible Atmospheric Diversity of Low Mass Exoplanets – Some Central Aspects https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-020-00716-4 Transits of Known Planets Orbiting a Naked-Eye Star https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.10995 Effect of Sea-ice Drift on the Onset of Snowball Climate on Rapidly Rotating Aqua-planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.11179 Constraining the oblateness of transiting planets with photometry and spectroscopy https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.11221 Orbital period modulation in hot Jupiter systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.11264 A New Method For Studying Exoplanet Atmospheres Using Planetary Infrared Excess https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.11438 Relaying Swarms of Low-Mass Interstellar Probes https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.11554 Orbital misalignment of the super-Earth π Men c with the spin of its star https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.11564 Solar One: A Proposal for The First Crewed Interstellar Spacecraft https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.11474
July 22, 2020 updates Formation of Planetary Populations III: Core Composition & Atmospheric Evaporation https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa2087/5874897 Two Directly Imaged, Wide-orbit Giant Planets around the Young, Solar Analog TYC 8998-760-1 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aba27e Analysis of Near 2:1 Mean-motion Resonance for Kepler-9b and c https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0275106220300345 The Case for an Early Solar Binary Companion https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.10339 Enabling Effective Exoplanet / Planetary Collaborative Science https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.10549 The Interiors of Uranus and Neptune: Current Understanding and Open Questions https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.10783 Ultra-short-period Planets are Stable Against Tidal Inspiral https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.10944
July 21, 2020 updates Astrobiology and Cuatro Ciénegas Basin as an Analog of Early Earth https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-46087-7 Directed Panspermia: Synthetic DNA in bioforming planets https://researchoutreach.org/articles/directed-panspermia-synthetic-dna-bioforming-planets/ A torus-shaped solar sail accelerated via thermal desorption of coating https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0273117720304750 Exocomets from a Solar System Perspective https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.09155 Exoplanets in our Backyard: A report from an interdisciplinary community workshop and a call to combined action https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.09231 Detecting Exoplanets Using Eclipsing Binaries as Natural Starshades https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.09623 Estimating survival probability using the terrestrial extinction history for the search for extraterrestrial life https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.09904 The search for disks or planetary objects around directly imaged companions: A candidate around DH Tau B https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.10097 A Super-Earth Orbiting an Extremely Inactive Host Star https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.10262
July 20, 2020 updates Magnetic levitational bioassembly of 3D tissue construct in space https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/29/eaba4174 NGTS-11 b (TOI-1847 b): A Transiting Warm Saturn Recovered from a TESS Single-transit Event https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab9eb9 A significant mutual inclination between the planets within the π Mensae system https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.08549 Exogeoscience and Its Role in Characterizing Exoplanet Habitability and the Detectability of Life https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.08665 The influence of bulk composition on long-term interior-atmosphere evolution of terrestrial exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.09021
July 17, 2020 updates NASA delays JWST launch by seven months https://spacenews.com/nasa-delays-jwst-launch-by-seven-months/ Exoplanet Transients: Possible Variations in the Limb-Darkening Coefficients of Eclipsed Stars at Short Time Intervals https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063772920080016 New Photometric Analysis of Hot Jupiter: WASP-135b https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1384107620300506 K2-280b — a low density warm sub-Saturn around a mildly evolved star https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.07939
July 16, 2020 updates EXPRES. I. HD 3651 as an Ideal RV Benchmark https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab99c9 Global Analysis of the TRAPPIST Ultra-Cool Dwarf Transit Survey https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.07278 GJ 3470 c: A Saturn-like Exoplanet Candidate in the Habitable Zone of GJ 3470 https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.07373 The origins of nearly coplanar, non-resonant systems of close-in super-Earths https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.07385 Role of the impact parameter in exoplanet transmission spectroscopy https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.07716 ExoTiC-ISM: A Python package for marginalised exoplanet transit parameters across a grid of systematic instrument models https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.07828
July 15, 2020 updates A Rayleigh-Ritz-method-based approach to computing seismic normal modes in rotating terrestrial planets https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.11082 The SPHERE infrared survey for exoplanets (SHINE). III. The demographics of young giant exoplanets below 300 au with SPHERE https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.06573 Hidden Worlds: Dynamical Architecture Predictions of Undetected Planets in Multi-planet Systems and Applications to TESS Systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.06745 KMT-2019-BLG-2073: Fourth Free-Floating-Planet Candidate with θE<10μas https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.06870 Stellar Oblateness versus Distant Giants in Exciting Kepler Planet Mutual Inclinations https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.06991 Will Gravitational Waves Discover the First Extra-Galactic Planetary System? https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.07010 A warm Jupiter transiting an M dwarf: A TESS single transit event confirmed with the Habitable-zone Planet Finder https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.07098 HATS-37Ab and HATS-38b: Two Transiting Hot Neptunes in the Desert https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.07135
July 14, 2020 updates Interstellar Probe: The Next Step https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020EGUGA..22.6119M/abstract Interstellar Probe: Pushing the Frontier of Space Science https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020EGUGA..2219605B/abstract Optomechanics of a stable diffractive axicon light sail https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjp/s13360-020-00542-1 On the survival of resonant and non-resonant planetary systems in star clusters https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa2047/5870702 Detectability of Thermal Emission from Sub-Relativistic Objects https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.04892 Predicting the long-term stability of compact multiplanet systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.06521 HAT-P-58b — HAT-P-64b: Seven Planets Transiting Bright Stars https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.05528 The New Generation Planetary Population Synthesis (NGPPS). I. Bern global model of planet formation and evolution, model tests, and emerging planetary systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.05561 The New Generation Planetary Population Synthesis (NGPPS). II. Planetary population of solar-like stars and overview of statistical results https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.05562 The New Generation Planetary Population Synthesis (NGPPS). III. Warm super-Earths and cold Jupiters: a weak occurrence correlation, but a strong architecture-composition link https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.05563 A Fast, 2D Gaussian Process Method Based on Celerite: Applications to Transiting Exoplanet Discovery and Characterization https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.05799 Search for helium in the upper atmosphere of the hot Jupiter WASP-127 b using Gemini/Phoenix https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.06216 A precise architecture characterization of the π Men planetary system https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.06410 The role of clouds on the depletion of methane and water dominance in the transmission spectra of irradiated exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.06562
July 13, 2020 updates Three short-period Jupiters from TESS – HIP 65Ab, TOI-157b, and TOI-169b https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/07/aa37941-20/aa37941-20.html Original Research by Young Twinkle Students (Orbyts): Ephemeris Refinement of Transiting Exoplanets II https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/aba42b Evolution of the Earth’s polar outflow from mid‐Archean to present https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020JA027837 Monte Carlo estimation of the probability of causal contacts between communicating civilisations https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.03597 KMT-2018-BLG-0748Lb: Sub-Saturn Microlensing Planet Orbiting an Ultracool Host https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.05204 Water transport throughout the TRAPPIST-1 system: the role of planetesimals https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.05366 Habitability Models for Planetary Sciences https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.05491 Detection of Fe\,{\sc i} Emission in the Day-side Spectrum of WASP-33b https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.05508 The EBLM project. VII. Spin-orbit alignment for the circumbinary planet host EBLM J0608-59 A/TOI-1338 A https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.05514 The dichotomy of atmospheric escape in AU Mic b https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.13606
July 10, 2020 updates The Law of Extraterrestrial Resources http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2020.73.225 Avalon’s Semi-Closed Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS) Part I – Crops for Food and Soil Production http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2020.73.198 Avalon’s Semi-Closed Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS) Part 2 – Ventilation for Heat and Water Transport and Management http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2020.73.210 Avalon’s Semi-Closed Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS) Part 3 – Crops to Extend the Diet and Produce Wood Fiber and Chemicals http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2020.73.221 Atmospheric Erosion by Giant Impacts onto Terrestrial Planets: A Scaling Law for any Speed, Angle, Mass, and Density https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.04321 How Jupiters save or destroy inner Neptunes around evolved stars https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.04337 The Dynamic Proto-atmospheres around Low-Mass Planets with Eccentric Orbits https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.04398
July 9, 2020 updates Planetary mass–radius relations across the galaxy https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/07/aa36916-19/aa36916-19.html The corona of GJ 1151 in the context of star-planet interaction https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa1982/5869252 Persistent Starspot Signals on M Dwarfs: Multiwavelength Doppler Observations with the Habitable-zone Planet Finder and Keck/HIRES https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab989f Very wide companion fraction from Gaia DR2: a weak or no enhancement for hot jupiter hosts, and a strong enhancement for contact binaries https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.03688 Investigating Extra-solar Planetary System Qatar-1 through Transit Observations https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.03753 Sensitivity of the Atmospheric Water Cycle within the Habitable Zone of a Tidally-Locked, Earth-like Exoplanet https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.04172
July 8, 2020 updates A systematic study of CO2 planetary atmospheres and their link to the stellar environment https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa1929/5868818 Cometary panspermia and origin of life? https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0065266020300067 The efficient Lamarckian spread of life in the cosmos https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0065266020300079 Photonic Metasurfaces as Relativistic Light Sails for Doppler‐Broadened Stable Beam‐Riding and Radiative Cooling https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/lpor.201900311 Arid or Cloudy: Characterizing the Atmosphere of the super-Earth 55 Cancri e using High-Resolution Spectroscopy https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.03115 A review of possible planetary atmospheres in the TRAPPIST-1 system https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.03334 Habitability of the early Earth: Liquid water under a faint young Sun facilitated by strong tidal heating due to a nearby Moon https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.03423 Sailing Towards the Stars Close to the Speed of Light https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.03530 The Cathedral and the Starship: Learning from the Middle Ages for Future Long-Duration Projects https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.03654 Terrestrial Planets Comparative Climatology (TPCC) mission concept https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.03049 A search for rotation periods in 1000 TESS objects of interest https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.03079
July 7, 2020 updates The GAPS programme at TNG – XXII. The GIARPS view of the extended helium atmosphere of HD 189733 b accounting for stellar activity https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/07/aa37644-20/aa37644-20.html Evidence for a high mutual inclination between the cold Jupiter and transiting super Earth orbiting π Men https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.01871 High-resolution Spectra for a Wide Range of Habitable Zone Planets around Sun-like Stars https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.02420 Hurricanes on Tidally Locked Terrestrial Planets: Fixed SST Experiments https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.02560 The Exoplanet Perspective on Future Ice Giant Exploration https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.02651 A temperature inversion with atomic iron in the ultra-hot dayside atmosphere of WASP-189b https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.02716 The GTC exoplanet transit spectroscopy survey XI. Possible detection of Rayleigh scattering in the atmosphere of the Saturn-mass planet WASP-69b https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.02741 On the Chemical Abundance of HR 8799 and the Planet c https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.02810
July 6, 2020 updates Is the Faint Young Sun Problem for Earth Solved? https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-020-00711-9 Dust size and spatial distributions in debris discs: predictions for exozodiacal dust dragged in from an exo-Kuiper belt https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.01313 Losing Oceans: The Effects of Composition on the Thermal Component of Impact-driven Atmospheric Loss https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.01446 Impact of Tides on the Potential for Exoplanets to Host Exomoons https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.01487 Hot Exoplanet Atmospheres Resolved with Transit Spectroscopy (HEARTS) V. Detection of sodium on the bloated super-Neptune WASP-166b https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.01783
July 3, 2020 updates A transition between the hot and the ultra-hot Jupiter atmospheres https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/07/aa37394-19/aa37394-19.html The Hubble Space Telescope PanCET Program: An Optical to Infrared Transmission Spectrum of HAT-P-32Ab https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab96cb The Star Tug: An active stellar engine capable of accelerating a star to relativistic velocities https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576520304239 The K2 & TESS Synergy I: Updated Ephemerides and Parameters for K2-114, K2-167, K2-237, & K2-261 https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.00678 Tracing bulk elemental ratios in exoplanetary atmospheres with TiO chemistry https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.01066 Characterization of the K2-38 planetary system. Unraveling one of the densest planets known to date https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.01081
July 2, 2020 updates History of the Plurality of Worlds https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-41448-1 A remnant planetary core in the hot-Neptune desert https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2421-7 The Venus Life Equation https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.00105 JWST Transit Spectra II: Constraining Aerosol Species, Particle-size Distributions, Temperature, and Metallicity for Cloudy Exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.00109 Tess asteroseismology of the known planet host star λ2 Fornacis https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.00497
July 1, 2020 updates Superrotation in Planetary Atmospheres https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-020-00703-9 A multiple planet system of super-Earths orbiting the brightest red dwarf star GJ887 https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.16372 Analysis of Close Stellar Encounters with the Solar System https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.16555 The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs: Convective shift and starspot constraints from chromatic radial velocities https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.16608 Dyson Spheres https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.16734 Dust Populations in the Iconic Vega Planetary System Resolved by ALMA https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.16257 Scaling K2. III. Comparable Planet Occurrence in the FGK Samples of Campaign 5 and Kepler https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.16261
June 30, 2020 updates Variability of transit light curves of Kepler objects of interest https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/06/aa37303-19/aa37303-19.html OGLE-2018-BLG-1269Lb: A Jovian Planet With A Bright, I=16 Host https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.15774
June 29, 2020 updates Obliquity of an Earth-like planet from frequency modulation of its direct imaged lightcurve: mock analysis from general circulation model simulation https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.11437 Probing Transit Timing Variation and Its Possible Origin with 12 New Transits of TrES-3b https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab9818 Evryscope and K2 Constraints on TRAPPIST-1 Superflare Occurrence and Planetary Habitability https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.14712 The path to instability in multi-planetary systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.14903
June 26, 2020 updates A multiplanet system of super-Earths orbiting the brightest red dwarf star GJ 887 https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6498/1477 Dynamical Packing in the Habitable Zone: The Case of Beta CVn https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.13962 ARES III: Unveiling the Two Faces of KELT-7 b with HST WFC3 https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.14199 The GAPS Programme at TNG — XXIV. An eccentric Neptune-mass planet near the inner edge of the BD-11 4672 habitable zone https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.14393 Experimental validation of coronagraphic focal-plane wavefront sensing for future segmented space telescopes https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.14494 Near Mean Motion Resonance of Terrestrial Planet Pair Induced by Giant Planet: Application to Kepler-68 System https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.14506 TOI-1728b: The Habitable-zone Planet Finder confirms a warm super Neptune orbiting an M dwarf host https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.14546 In situ exo-planet transit lightcurve modelling with the Chroma+ suite https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.14586
June 25, 2020 updates NASA expects to cover JWST launch slip with budget reserves https://spacenews.com/nasa-expects-to-cover-jwst-launch-slip-with-budget-reserves/ Alien Civilization Calculator https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/alien-civilization Large H2O solubility in dense silica and its implications for the interiors of water-rich planets https://www.pnas.org/content/117/18/9747 Photochemistry of Anoxic Abiotic Habitable Planet Atmospheres: Impact of New H2O Cross Sections https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab9363 Analysis of HAT-P-23 b, Qatar-1 b, WASP-2 b, and WASP-33 b with an Optimized EXOplanet Transit Interpretation Code https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.13324 Atmospheric Regimes and Trends on Exoplanets and Brown Dwarfs https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.13384 EarthFinder Probe Mission Concept Study: Characterizing nearby stellar exoplanet systems with Earth-mass analogs for future direct imaging https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.13428 Breakthrough Listen Search for Technosignatures Towards the Kepler-160 System https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.13789 TRAPPIST-1: Global Results of the Spitzer Exploration Science Program {\it Red Worlds} https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.13826
June 24, 2020 updates Heavy-metal Jupiters by major mergers: metallicity vs. mass for giant planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.12500 Risks for Life on Proxima b from Sterilizing Asteroid Impacts https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.12503 Studies of Exoplanets with Candidate TOI 717.01 and Confirmed HAT-P-3b https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.12658 The ARCiS framework for Exoplanet Atmospheres: Modelling Philosophy and Retrieval https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.12821 Exploiting periodic orbits as dynamical clues for Kepler and K2 systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.12895 Exomoon Candidates from Transit Timing Variations: Six Kepler systems with TTVs explainable by photometrically unseen exomoons https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.12997
June 23, 2020 updates Updated Deterministic Radiation Transport for Future Deep Space Missions https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2214552420300456 Overview – The Breakthrough Listen Exotic Target Catalog http://seti.berkeley.edu/exotica/ Searching for the near-infrared counterpart of Proxima c using multi-epoch high-contrast SPHERE data at VLT https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/06/aa37594-20/aa37594-20.html Hot Exoplanet Atmospheres Resolved with Transit Spectroscopy (HEARTS) IV. A spectral inventory of atoms and molecules in the high-resolution transmission spectrum of WASP-121 b https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.11308 Distinguishing between wet and dry atmospheres of TRAPPIST-1 e and f https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.11349 Beyond a pale blue dot : how to search for possible bio-signatures on earth-like planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.11451 The impact of exoplanets’ measured parameters on the inferred internal structure https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.12353
June 22, 2020 updates Atmospheric Escape From TOI-700 d: Venus versus Earth Analogs https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab982f/meta CfA Scientists Collaborate on New Study to Search the Universe for Signs of Technological Civilizations https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2020-12 When more is less: The P‐type binary habitability paradox https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.202013758 Predictions of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Galactic Exoplanet Survey II: Free-Floating Planet Detection Rates https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.10760 Simulations Predicting the Ability of Multi-Color Simultaneous Photometry to Distinguish TESS Candidate Exoplanets from False Positives https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.10765 Spin-orbit alignment of the β Pictoris planetary system https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.10784 A Mini-Neptune and a Venus-Zone Planet in the Radius Valley Orbiting the Nearby M2-dwarf TOI-1266: Validation with the Habitable-zone Planet Finder https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.11180
June 19, 2020 updates Does intelligent life exist on other planets? Technosignatures may hold new clues https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/technosignatures-hold-clues-to-advanced-extraterrestrial-life-441472/ Testing Earthlike Atmospheric Evolution on Exo-Earths through Oxygen Absorption: Required Sample Sizes and the Advantage of Age-based Target Selection https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab8fad Giant Planet Scatterings and Collisions: Hydrodynamics, Merger-Ejection Branching Ratio, and Properties of the Remnants https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.10067 Influence of the Sun-like magnetic cycle on exoplanetary atmospheric escape https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.10634 Search for TiO and Optical Night-side Emission from the Exoplanet WASP-33b https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.10743
June 18, 2020 updates Forecasting Rates of Volcanic Activity on Terrestrial Exoplanets and Implications for Cryovolcanic Activity on Extrasolar Ocean Worlds https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ab9504 The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: A 3.95–8.00 GHz Search for Radio Technosignatures in the Restricted Earth Transit Zone https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab9361 An Update on the Student Exoplanet Programme https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.09552 The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Variability of the He I line at 10830 Å https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.09372 Retrieving scattering clouds and disequilibrium chemistry in the atmosphere of HR 8799e https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.09394 GJ 273: On the formation, dynamical evolution and habitability of a planetary system hosted by an M dwarf at 3.75 parsec https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.09403 Small Sensitivity of the Simulated Climate of Tidally Locked Aquaplanets to Model Resolution https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.09579 TESS unveils the optical phase curve of KELT-1b. Thermal emission and ellipsoidal variation from the brown dwarf companion, and activity from the star https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.09750 Extending the Breakthrough Listen nearby star survey to other stellar objects in the field https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.09756
June 17, 2020 updates Principles of Pulsar Space Navigation https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063772920070057 Searching for thermal inversion agents in the transmission spectrum of KELT-20b/MASCARA-2b: detection of neutral iron and ionised calcium H&K lines https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/496/1/504/5856007 Simultaneous Optical Transmission Spectroscopy of a Terrestrial, Habitable-zone Exoplanet with Two Ground-based Multiobject Spectrographs https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab935f Directly imaged exoplanets in reflected starlight. The importance of knowing the planet radius https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.08784 Formation of aqua planets with water of nebular origin: Effects of water enrichment on the structure and mass of captured atmospheres of terrestrial planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.09068
June 16, 2020 updates A Moving Target—Revising the Mass of Proxima Centauri c https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab9ca9 A Geologically Robust Procedure For Observing Rocky Exoplanets to Ensure that Detection of Atmospheric Oxygen is an Earth-Like Biosignature https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.07403 Tentative Evidence for Water Vapor in the Atmosphere of the Neptune-Size Exoplanet HD 106315 c https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.07444 TATOO: a tidal-chronology standalone tool to estimate the age of massive close-in planetary systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.07880 Destruction of molecular hydrogen ice and Implications for 1I/2017 U1 (`Oumuamua) https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.08088 Keeping M-Earths Habitable in the Face of Atmospheric Loss by Sequestering Water in the Mantle https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.08514 A Quantitative Assessment of Communicating Extra-Terrestrial Intelligent Civilizations in the Galaxy and the Case of FRB-like Signals https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.08493
June 15, 2020 updates Resonance locking in giant planets indicated by the rapid orbital expansion of Titan https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.06854 JWST Transit Spectra I: Exploring Potential Biases and Opportunities in Retrievals of Tidally-locked Hot Jupiters with Clouds and Hazes https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.06899 Three-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations of the upper atmosphere of π Men c: comparison with Lyα transit observations https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.06959 π Earth: a 3.14 days Earth-sized Planet from \textit{K2}’s Kitchen served warm by the SPECULOOS Team https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.07308
June 12, 2020 updates Gravity Assist: Puffy Planets, Powerful Telescopes, with Knicole Colon https://www.nasa.gov/mediacast/gravity-assist-puffy-planets-powerful-telescopes-with-knicole-colon Neutral Cr and V in the atmosphere of ultra hot jupiter WASP-121 b https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.05995 Is the faint young Sun problem for Earth solved? https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.06265 Unresolved Binary Exoplanet Host Stars Fit as Single Stars: Effects on the Stellar Parameters https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.06528 Coevolution of primitive methane cycling ecosystems and early Earth atmosphere and climate https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.06433
June 11, 2020 updates NASA confirms JWST will miss March 2021 launch date https://spacenews.com/nasa-confirms-jwst-will-miss-march-2021-launch-date/ Information Content of JWST NIRSpec Transmission Spectra of Warm Neptunes https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab9176 Coupled Thermal and Compositional Evolution of Photoevaporating Planet Envelopes https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab873f Curvature Invariants for Wormholes and Warped Spacetimes https://search.proquest.com/openview/cb85487fa25cb3423e71120df0170053/1 Using the Interstellar Probe to Decipher Exoplanet Signatures of Our Planets from the Very Local Interstellar Medium https://surveygizmoresponseuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/fileuploads/15647/4139225/196-8e2d83e91e913e0e21828742ad517df7_ISP_Exoplanet_White_Paper_v2.pdf Assessing Spectra and Thermal Inversions due to TiO in Hot Jupiter Atmospheres https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.04807 Indications for very high metallicity and absence of methane for the eccentric exo-Saturn WASP-117b https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.05382 Planetary thermal evolution models with tectonic transitions https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.05654 Architectures of Exoplanetary Systems. II: An Increase in Inner Planetary System Occurrence Towards Later Spectral Types for Kepler’s FGK Dwarfs https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.04348
June 10, 2020 updates Mineral dust increases the habitability of terrestrial planets but confounds biomarker detection https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-16543-8 Sensitivity of the Atmospheric Water Cycle within the Habitable Zone of a Tidally Locked, Earth-like Exoplanet https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab9102 Inertial Modes of a Freely Rotating Ellipsoidal Planet and Their Relation to Nutations https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ab93c8 Comparing Approximate Bayesian Computation with the Poisson-Likelihood Method for Exoplanet Occurrence Rates https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab9a3c Radioprotective effects of induced astronaut torpor and advanced propulsion systems during deep space travel https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2214552420300407
June 9, 2020 updates Planetary mass-radius relations across the galaxy https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.03601 Project Lyra: Catching 1I/’Oumuamua — Using Laser Sailcraft in 2030 https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.03891 Effects of Thermal Emission on the Transmission Spectra of Hot Jupiters https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.04175 Narrow-Band Signal Localization for SETI on Noisy Synthetic Spectrogram Data https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.04362 No evidence for interstellar planetesimals trapped in the Solar System https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.04534
June 8, 2020 updates A Complex Life Habitable Zone Based On Lipid Solubility Theory https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-64436-z Transit least-squares survey – III. A 1.9 R⊕ transit candidate in the habitable zone of Kepler-160 and a nontransiting planet characterized by transit-timing variations https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/06/aa36929-19/aa36929-19.html An objective Bayesian analysis of life’s early start and our late arrival https://www.pnas.org/content/117/22/11995 Atmospheric Escape Processes and Planetary Atmospheric Evolution https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2019JA027639 Ignition and burn in a hybrid nuclear fuel for a pulsed rocket engine https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576520302083
June 5, 2020 updates Transiting Exoplanet Discovery Using Machine Learning Techniques: A Survey https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12145-020-00464-7 Exoplanet Detection and Its Dependence on Stochastic Sampling of the Stellar Initial Mass Function https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab8e39 WISEA J083011.95+283716.0: A Missing Link Planetary-mass Object https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab8d25 Transit Analysis of Exoplanets TrES-5 b and WASP-43 b with the EXOplanet Transit Interpretation Code https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab98f5 Exoplanet secondary atmosphere loss and revival https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.02589
June 4, 2020 updates Fear the Shadows of the Giants: On Secular Perturbations in Circumstellar Habitable Zones of Double Stars https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab9104 Hints of a Population of Solar System Analog Planets from ALMA https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab94a8 Atmosphere loss in planet-planet collisions https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01881 Giant impacts stochastically change the internal pressures of terrestrial planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01992 Transit least-squares survey — III. A 1.9R⊕ transit candidate in the habitable zone of Kepler-160 and a nontransiting planet characterized by transit-timing variations https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.02123
June 3, 2020 updates A PSF-based Approach to TESS High quality data Of Stellar clusters (PATHOS) – II. Search for exoplanets in open clusters of the southern ecliptic hemisphere and their frequency https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa1465/5850378 Maunder’s Work on Planetary Habitability in 1913: Early Use of the term “Habitable Zone” and a “Drake Equation” Calculation https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab9831 Outburst and Splitting of Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01242 Four Jovian planets around low-luminosity giant stars observed by the EXPRESS and PPPS https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01277 Estimation of the Total Mass of 10 Exoplanets and their Host Stars Based on the Primary Transit Method https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01583 Radius Study of Ten Transiting Hot Jupiter Exoplanets with Ground-Based Observations https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01591 Period Study by the Transit Method with Ground-Based Observations https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01587 The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Measuring precise radial velocities in the near infrared: the example of the super-Earth CD Cet b https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01684 Theoretical Studies of Comets in the 55 Cancri System https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01711 The Fate of Binary Stars Hosting Planets upon Interaction with Sgr A* Black hole https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01807 Reworking the SETI Paradox: METI’s Place on the Continuum of Astrobiological Signaling https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01167
June 2, 2020 updates Challenges in Scientific Data Communication from Low-Mass Interstellar Probes https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.07778 On the role of reduced wind mass-loss rate in enabling exoplanets to shape planetary nebulae https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.09077 Near-Infrared Transit Photometry of Extra-Solar Planet HAT-P-54b https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.00220 Probing Transit Timing Variation and its Possible Origin with Twelve New Transits of TrES-3b https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.00599 Masses for the seven planets in K2-32 and K2-233. Four diverse planets in resonant chain and the first young rocky worlds https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01102
June 1, 2020 updates Near-Term Self-replicating Probes–A Concept Design https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.12303 Z-pinch fusion https://aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/5.0004228 Coma Anisotropy and the Rotation Pole of Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab9228 Tides on other Earths: implications for exoplanet and palaeo‐tidal simulations https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2019GL085746 Aquatic Biospheres On Temperate Planets Around Sun-like Stars And M-dwarfs https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14387 Mineral cloud and hydrocarbon haze particles in the atmosphere of the hot Jupiter JWST target WASP-43b https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14595
May 29, 2020 updates Investigating the Development of Hot Jupiters and Rogue Planets through Universe Sandbox 2 https://www.pcs.cnu.edu/~dgore/Capstone/files/KerrT.pdf A linear formation-flying astronomical interferometer in low Earth orbit https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/publications-of-the-astronomical-society-of-australia/article/linear-formationflying-astronomical-interferometer-in-low-earth-orbit/51EB0695D4A4B2A0912000DB527B657F Constraints on Metastable Helium in the Atmospheres of WASP-69b and WASP-52b with Ultranarrowband Photometry https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab8e34 Demonstrating high-precision photometry with a CubeSat: ASTERIA observations of 55 Cancri e https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14155 Scheduling ESPRESSO follow-up of TESS Targets. I. Myopic versus non-myopic sampling https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14008 Enrichment of the HR 8799 planets by minor bodies and dust https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.13562 Following the TraCS of exoplanets with Pan-Planets: Wendelstein-1b and Wendelstein-2b https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.13560 Obliquity Constraints on an Extrasolar Planetary-Mass Companion https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.11131 The Effect of Substellar Continent Size on Ocean Dynamics of Proxima Centauri b https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14185
May 28, 2020 updates Qualitative classification of extraterrestrial civilizations https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.13221 Evidence that 1I/2017 U1 (`Oumuamua) was composed of molecular hydrogen ice https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.12932 Implications of different stellar spectra for the climate of tidally-locked Earth-like exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.13002 Detection of exomoons in simulated light curves with a regularized convolutional neural network https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.13035 Atmospheric Escape From TOI-700 d: Venus vs. Earth Analogs https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.13190
May 26, 2020 updates On the use of Dyson-Structures for Prevention of Asteroid Catastrophes https://osf.io/qtmdk/ Highlights of Exoplanetary Science from Spitzer https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.11331 The Space Environment and Atmospheric Joule Heating of the Habitable Zone Exoplanet TOI700-d https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.11587 Revisiting Proxima with ESPRESSO https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.12114 Atmospheric circulation of brown dwarfs and directly imaged exoplanets driven by cloud radiative feedback: effects of rotation https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.12152
May 25, 2020 updates Aerosol composition of hot giant exoplanets dominated by silicates and hydrocarbon hazes https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1114-3 CRaTER Observations and Permissible Mission Duration for Human Operations in Deep Space https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2214552420300341 Future interstellar rockets may use laser-induced annihilation reactions for relativistic drive https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576520303179 Possible Interstellar meteoroids detected by the Canadian Meteor Orbit Radar https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.10896 K2-HERMES II. Planet-candidate properties from K2 Campaigns 1-13 https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.10959 The HST PanCET Program: An Optical to Infrared Transmission Spectrum of HAT-P-32Ab https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.11293
May 22, 2020 updates The Planetary Luminosity Problem: “Missing Planets” and the Observational Consequences of Episodic Accretion https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab8388 Oceanographic Considerations for Exoplanet Life Detection https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab88c9 PTFO 8-8695: Two Stars, Two Signals, No Planet https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.10253 Tidal evolution of exoplanetary systems hosting Potentially Habitable Exoplanets. The cases of LHS-1140 b-c and K2-18 b-c https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.10318
May 21, 2020 updates NASA renames WFIRST space telescope after pioneering woman astronomer https://spacenews.com/nasa-renames-wfirst-space-telescope-after-pioneering-woman-astronomer/ Bayesian Approach for Determining Microlens System Properties with High-angular-resolution Follow-up Imaging https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab8adf Persistent starspot signals on M dwarfs: multi-wavelength Doppler observations with the Habitable-zone Planet Finder and Keck/HIRES https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.09657 Detailed chemical compositions of planet hosting stars: I. Exploration of possible planet signatures https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.09846 The correlation between photometric variability and radial velocity jitter, based on TESS and HARPS observations https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.10105 Exploring formation scenarios for the exomoon candidate Kepler 1625b I https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.10138 Retrograde orbits excess among observable interstellar objects https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.10236
May 20, 2020 updates Galactic Cosmic Ray Shielding Using Spherical Field-Reversed Array of Superconducting Coils https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.A34710 Ultra-thin sail could speed journey to other star systems https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Ultra-thin_sail_could_speed_journey_to_other_star_systems The Chiral Puzzle of Life https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab8dc6 A Starshot Communication Downlink https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.08940 The Effect of Seafloor Weathering on Planetary Habitability https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.09092 A trampoline effect occurring in the stages of planetary reseeding https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.09360 ARES II: Characterising the Hot Jupiters WASP-127 b, WASP-79 b and WASP-62 b with HST https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.09615 Confirmation of water emission in the dayside spectrum of the ultrahot Jupiter WASP-121b https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.09631
May 19, 2020 updates An objective Bayesian analysis of life’s early start and our late arrivalhttps://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/05/12/1921655117 Artificial Gravity in Interstellar Travelhttps://zenodo.org/record/3747351 Planetary Spin and Obliquity from Mergershttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.07718 Atmospheric Escape of Close-in Giants around Hot Stars: Far-Ultraviolet Radiation and Photoelectric Heating Effecthttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.08676 Super-Rayleigh Slopes in Transmission Spectra of Exoplanets Generated by Photochemical Hazehttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.08880
May 18, 2020 updates Space, Time, and Alienshttps://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-41614-0 Inverse design of lightweight broadband reflector for efficient lightsail propulsionhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.04840 A Gas Giant Planet in the OGLE-2006-BLG-284L Stellar Binary Systemhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.07199 PLATON II: New Capabilities And A Comprehensive Retrieval on HD 189733b Transit and Eclipse Datahttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.09513
May 15, 2020 updates A Numerical Method for Determining the Elements of Circumbinary Orbits and Its Application to Circumbinary Planets and the Satellites of Pluto-Charonhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.06498 Two examples of how to use observations of terrestrial planets orbiting in temperate orbits around low mass stars to test key concepts of planetary habitabilityhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.06512 A possible transit of a disintegrating exoplanet in the nearby multiplanet system DMPP-1https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.07086
May 14, 2020 updates Advances on studying optical forces: optical manipulation, optical cooling and light induced dynamicshttps://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6463/ab8512 Orbital Stability of Exomoons and Submoons with Applications to Kepler 1625b-Ihttps://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab89a7 The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. The He I infrared triplet lines in PHOENIX models of M2-3 V starshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.06246
May 13, 2020 updates Predictions of cognitive detriments from galactic cosmic ray exposures to astronauts on exploration missionshttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2214552419301221 The GAPS programme at TNG XXII. The GIARPS view of the extended helium atmosphere of HD189733 b accounting for stellar activityhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.05676 2I/Borisov and the Jets: Constraints on the Spin-Pole Orientation, Jet Morphology and Rotation of Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov with Deep HST Imaginghttps://arxiv.org/abs/1912.07386
May 12, 2020 updates Growth on Carbohydrates from Carbonaceous Meteorites Alters the Immunogenicity of Environment-Derived Bacterial Pathogenshttps://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2019.2173 A new set of atmosphere and evolution models for cool T–Y brown dwarfs and giant exoplanetshttps://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/05/aa37381-19/aa37381-19.html Earths in Other Solar Systems N-body simulations: the Role of Orbital Damping in Reproducing the Kepler Planetary Systemshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.04233 Inflation of Migrated Hot Jupitershttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.04927 An Unusual Transmission Spectrum for the Sub-Saturn KELT-11b Suggestive of a Sub-Solar Water Abundancehttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.05153
May 11, 2020 updates What is the Oxygen Isotope Composition of Venus? The Scientific Case for Sample Return from Earth’s “Sister” Planethttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-020-00669-8 What horticulture and space exploration can learn from each other: The Mission to mars initiative in the Netherlandshttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576520302988 World ships: Feasibility and Rationalehttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.04100
May 8, 2020 updates Dynamic Orbital Slingshot for Rendezvous with Interstellar Objectshttps://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2020_Phase_I_Phase_II/Dynamic_Orbital_Slingshot/ Deceleration of Interstellar Spacecraft Utilizing Antimatterhttps://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2020_Phase_I_Phase_II/Deceleration_of_Interstellar_Spacecraft_Utilizing_Antimatter/ Biosignature Surveys to Exoplanet Yields and Beyondhttps://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa1284/5834560 Design considerations for relativistic laser sailshttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576520302836 Simulating the Multi-Epoch Direct Detection Technique to Isolate the Thermal Emission of the Non-Transiting Hot Jupiter HD187123Bhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.03020 Modeling Radial Velocity Data of Resonant Planets to Infer Migration Historieshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.03034 The PHOENIX Exoplanet Retrieval Algorithm and Using H− Opacity as a Probe in Ultra-hot Jupitershttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.03056 Oxidation of the Interiors of Carbide Exoplanetshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.03175 The GAPS Programme at TNG — XXIII. HD 164922 d: a close-in super-Earth discovered with HARPS-N in a system with a long-period Saturn mass companionhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.03368
May 7, 2020 updates Cosmic Anarchy and Its Consequenceshttps://medium.com/@KevinKohlerFM/cosmic-anarchy-and-its-consequences-b1a557b1a2e3 Determining the nature of motion around Jupiter-like exoplanets using the elliptic restricted three-body problemhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0032063319304313 Photometry and Performance of SPECULOOS-Southhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.02423 UV Exoplanet Transmission Spectral Features as Probes of Metals and Rainouthttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.02528 Alkaline Exospheres of Exoplanet Systems: Evaporative Transmission Spectrahttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.02536 The Hubble PanCET program: Transit and Eclipse Spectroscopy of the Strongly Irradiated Giant Exoplanet WASP-76bhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.02568 Why do warm Neptunes present nonzero eccentricity?https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.02700
May 6, 2020 updates A Practical Guide for Selecting and Utilizing Pulsars for Galactic Navigationhttp://dses.science/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/19-A-Practical-Guide-for-Selecting-and-Utilizing-Pulsars-for-Galactic-Navigation.pdf The Italian National Project of Astrobiology—Life in Space—Origin, Presence, Persistence of Life in Space, from Molecules to Extremophileshttps://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2020.2247 A Coupled Analysis of Atmospheric Mass Loss and Tidal Evolution in XUV Irradiated Exoplanets: the TRAPPIST-1 Case Studyhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.01740 Consistently Simulating a Wide Range of Atmospheric Scenarios for K2-18b with a Flexible Radiative Transfer Modulehttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.02114 Increasing the raw contrast of VLT/SPHERE with the dark hole technique. I. Simulations and validation on the internal sourcehttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.02179 ARES I: WASP-76 b, A Tale of Two HST Spectrahttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.02374
May 5, 2020 updates Spaceship Earthhttps://www.sundance.org/projects/spaceship-earth Laboratory studies on the viability of life in H2-dominated exoplanet atmosphereshttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1069-4 Visible and near-infrared observations of interstellar comet 2I/Borisov with the 10.4-m GTC and the 3.6-m TNG telescopeshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.00786 The occurrence rate of exoplanets orbiting ultracool dwarfs as probed by K2https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.01440 Stellar impact on disequilibrium chemistry and on observed spectra of hot Jupiter atmosphereshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.01470 Microlensed Radio Emission from Exoplanetshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.01542 Testing Earth-like atmospheric evolution on exo-Earths through oxygen absorption: required sample sizes and the advantage of age-based target selectionhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.01587 Original Research By Young Twinkle Students (ORBYTS): Ephemeris Refinement of Transiting Exoplanetshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.01684 HAZMAT VI: The Evolution of Extreme Ultraviolet Radiation Emitted from Early M Starhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.01687
May 4, 2020 updates NGTS-11 b / TIC-54002556 b: A transiting warm Saturn recovered from a TESS single-transit eventhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.00006 TESS Asteroseismic Analysis of the Known Exoplanet Host Star HD 222076https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.00272 Properties and characteristics of the WFIRST H4RG-10 detectorshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.00505
May 1, 2020 updates Toward Complete Characterization: Prospects for Directly Imaging Transiting Exoplanetshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.14396 Discovery and characterization of the exoplanets WASP-148b and c. A transiting system with two interacting giant planetshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.14645 Atmospheric dynamics on terrestrial planets with eccentric orbitshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.14673 KELT-9 b’s Asymmetric TESS Transit Caused by Rapid Stellar Rotation and Spin-Orbit Misalignmenthttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.14812 Bayesian Methods for Joint Exoplanet Transit Detection and Systematic Noise Characterizationhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.14893
April 30, 2020 updates What is the Exoplanet Technologies Lab?https://www.nasa.gov/ames/exoplanet-technologies-lab Blockchain Properties for Near-Planetary, Interplanetary, and Metaplanetary Space Domainshttps://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.I010833 Toward Extremely Precise Radial Velocities. I. Simulated Solar Spectra for Testing Exoplanet Detection Algorithmshttps://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab8d44 Performance Verification of the EXtreme PREcision Spectrographhttps://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab811d Constraints on Metastable Helium in the Atmospheres of WASP-69b and WASP-52b with Ultra-Narrowband Photometryhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.13728 High-Resolution Spectral Discriminants of Ocean Loss for M Dwarf Terrestrial Exoplanetshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.13731 Mass loss rate and local thermodynamic state of KELT-9 b thermosphere from the hydrogen Balmer serieshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.13733 Chemistry of Temperate Super-Earth and Mini-Neptune Atmospheric Hazes from Laboratory Experimentshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.13794 Thermodynamic and Energetic Limits on Continental Silicate Weathering Strongly Impact the Climate and Habitability of Wet, Rocky Worldshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.14058 Scattered light may reveal the existence of ringed exoplanetshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.14121
April 29, 2020 updates Solar System Physics for Exoplanet Researchhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.13209 Mineral snowflakes on exoplanets and brown dwarfs: Effects of micro-porosity, size distributions, and particle shapehttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.13502 Aluminium oxide in the atmosphere of hot Jupiter WASP-43bhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.13679
April 28, 2020 updates Electromagnetic induction heating as a driver of volcanic activity on massive rocky planetshttps://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/04/aa37924-20/aa37924-20.html SpecPhot: A Comparison of Spectroscopic and Photometric Exoplanet Follow-Up Methodshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.12136 Properties of Sub-Neptune Atmospheres: TOI-270 Systemhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.12475 Observational features of exoplanetary synchrotron radio burstshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.12663 A He I upper atmosphere around the warm Neptune GJ 3470bhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.12812 Ions in the Thermosphere of Exoplanets: Observable Constraints Revealed by Innovative Laboratory Experimentshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.12872 K-Stacker, an algorithm to hack the orbital parameters of planets hidden in high-contrast imaging. First applications to VLT SPHERE multi-epoch observationshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.12878 Photometric Limits on the High Resolution Imaging of Exoplanets Using the Solar Gravity Lenshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.12907
April 27, 2020 updates Radiation Effects on Astronautic Fertility in Space: Deep Space Policyhttps://www.sciencepolicyjournal.org/article_1038126_jspg_16_01_01.html Pulsar Positioning System: A quest for evidence of extraterrestrial engineeringhttps://www.academia.edu/31878996/Pulsar_Positioning_System_A_quest_for_evidence_of_extraterrestrial_engineering Are we going to Alpha Centauri?https://scivpro.com/manuscript/10_32386_scivpro_000019/ E|A|S (Evolving Asteroid Starships)https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-030-33471-0_67 Tidal evolution of exoplanetary systems hosting Potentially Habitable Exoplanets. The cases of LHS-1140 b-c and K2-18 b-chttps://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa1110/5825369 The Extended Kardashev Scalehttps://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab792b Astrophysical Insights into Radial Velocity Jitter from an Analysis of 600 Planet-search Starshttps://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab855a Light-induced propulsion of graphene-on-grid sails in microgravityhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576520301582 Radiation conditions in relativistic interstellar flighthttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.10079 The multi-planet system TOI-421 — A warm Neptune and a super puffy mini-Neptune transiting a G9 V star in a visual binaryhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.10095
April 24, 2020 updates ALMA 0.88 mm Survey of Disks around Planetary-mass Companionshttps://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab818c The Impact of Planetary Rotation Rate on the Reflectance and Thermal Emission Spectrum of Terrestrial Exoplanets around Sunlike Starshttps://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab83ec Assessment of Supervised Machine Learning for Atmospheric Retrieval of Exoplanetshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.10755 TESS unveils the phase curve of WASP-33b. Characterization of the planetary atmosphere and the pulsations from the starhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.10767 TESS discovery of a super-Earth and three sub-Neptunes hosted by the bright, Sun-like star HD 108236https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.11314 Neutral Iron Emission Lines From The Day-side Of KELT-9b — The GAPS Programme With HARPS-N At TNG XXhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.11335 What’s in a name: the etymology of astrobiologyhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.11312
April 23, 2020 updates An interstellar origin for high-inclination Centaurshttps://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/494/2/2191/5822028 Why Is it So Cold in Here? Explaining the Cold Temperatures Retrieved from Transmission Spectra of Exoplanet Atmosphereshttps://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab8238 Radial-velocity variations due to meridional flows in the Sun and solar-type stars: impact on exoplanet detectabilityhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.10611
April 21, 2020 updates New HST data and modeling reveal a massive planetesimal collision around Fomalhauthttps://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/04/15/1912506117 The carbon monoxide-rich interstellar comet 2I/Borisovhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1095-2 Unusually high CO abundance of the first active interstellar comethttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1087-2 Focal Plane Wavefront Sensing with the FAST TGV Coronagraphhttps://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ab84c9 Searching for the near infrared counterpart of Proxima c using multi-epoch high contrast SPHERE data at VLThttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.06685 High-resolution Transmission Spectroscopy of MASCARA-2 b with EXPREShttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.08415 OGLE-2017-BLG-0406: Spitzer Microlens Parallax Reveals Saturn-mass Planet orbiting M-dwarf Host in the Inner Galactic Diskhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.09067 WASP-4 transit timing variation from a comprehensive set of 129 transitshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.09109
April 20, 2020 updates Cheops observes its first exoplanets and is ready for sciencehttp://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Cheops/Cheops_observes_its_first_exoplanets_and_is_ready_for_science Mitigating flicker noise in high-precision photometry I. Characterization of the noise structure, impact on the inferred transit parameters, and predictions for CHEOPS observationshttps://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/04/aa37412-19/aa37412-19.html The atmospheres of rocky exoplanets I. Outgassing of common rock and the stability of liquid waterhttps://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/04/aa36614-19/aa36614-19.html Exoplanet System Kepler-2 with comparisons to Kepler-1 and 13https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.07971 Inertial modes of a freely rotating ellipsoidal planet and their relation to nutationshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.08218 Frequency Modulation of Directly Imaged Exoplanets: Geometric Effect as a Probe of Planetary Obliquityhttps://arxiv.org/abs/1603.02898 Detectability of Molecular Signatures on TRAPPIST-1e through Transmission Spectroscopy Simulated for Future Space-Based Observatorieshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2001.01338
April 17, 2020 updates Possible Transfer of Life by Earth-Grazing Objects to Exoplanetary Systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.02235 H- and Dissociation in Ultra-hot Jupiters: A Retrieval Case Study of WASP-18b https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.07252 Colour-colour and colour-magnitude diagrams for Hot Jupiters https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.07431 Simultaneous TESS and NGTS Transit Observations of WASP-166b https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.07589 TOI-1338: TESS’ First Transiting Circumbinary Planet https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.07783 The onset of instability in resonant chains https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.07789
April 16, 2020 updates Planet-star interactions with precise transit timing. II. The radial-velocity tides and a tighter constraint on the orbital decay rate in the WASP-18 system https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.06781 Concept for the GMT High-Contrast Exoplanet Instrument GMagAO-X and the GMT High-Contrast Phasing Testbed with MagAO-X https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.06808 No consistent atmospheric absorption detected for the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-189 b https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.06859 Atmospheric stability and collapse on tidally locked rocky planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.07134 Polar planets around highly eccentric binaries are the most stable https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.07230 Survival of Primordial Planetary Atmospheres: Mass Loss from Temperate Terrestrial Planets https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.08820
April 15, 2020 updates Space, the Final Frontier: In the Scientific Pursuit of Extraterrestrial Life Away from Earth https://www.academia.edu/42678316/Space_the_Final_Frontier_In_the_Scientific_Pursuit_of_Extraterrestrial_Life_Away_from_Earth Earth-Size, Habitable Zone Planet Found Hidden in Early NASA Kepler Data https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/earth-size-habitable-zone-planet-found-hidden-in-early-nasa-kepler-data A Habitable-zone Earth-sized Planet Rescued from False Positive Status https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab84e5 Precise mass and radius of a transiting super-Earth planet orbiting the M dwarf TOI-1235: a planet in the radius gap? https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.06218 Atmospheric Characterization via Broadband Color Filters on the PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) Mission https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.06396 Planetary transits at radio wavelengths: secondary eclipses of hot Jupiter extended atmospheres https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.06528 Two transiting hot Jupiters from the WASP survey: WASP-150b and WASP-176b https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.06622 TOI-1235 b: a keystone super-Earth for testing radius valley emergence models around early M dwarfs https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.06682 Habitability is a continuous property of nature https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.06470
April 14, 2020 updates Center for Astrobiology: Toward the RNA-World in the Interstellar Medium—Detection of Urea and Search of 2-Amino-oxazole and Simple Sugars https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2019.2125 Tidal fragmentation as the origin of 1I/2017 U1 (‘Oumuamua) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1065-8 Stability analysis of three exoplanet systems https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa847/5819459 Searching the Entirety of Kepler Data. II. Occurrence Rate Estimates for FGK Stars https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.05296
April 13, 2020 updates Life Beyond the Habitable Zone https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020nova.pres.6280K/abstract Transit Duration Variations in Multiplanet Systems https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab8067 Shallow transit follow‐up from Next‐Generation Transit Survey: Simultaneous observations of HD 106315 with 11 identical telescopes https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.202013768
April 10, 2020 updates Dust Environment Model of the Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab8455 Molecular Cross Sections for High Resolution Spectroscopy of Super Earths, Warm Neptunes and Hot Jupiters https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.04160 Photochemistry of Anoxic Abiotic Habitable Planet Atmospheres: Impact of New H2O Cross-Sections https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.04185 Impossible moons — Transit timing effects that cannot be due to an exomoon https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.04230
April 9, 2020 updates Revised mass-radius relationships for water-rich rocky planets more irradiated than the runaway greenhouse limit https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.08878 Updated Parameters and a New Transmission Spectrum of HD 97658b https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.03601 Detectability of Life Using Oxygen on Pelagic Planets and Water Worlds https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.03631 Global Mapping of the Surface Composition on an Exo-Earth using Color Variability https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.03931 Global Mapping of an Exo-Earth using Sparse Modeling https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.03941 The Astrobiological Copernican Weak and Strong Limits for Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.03968
April 8, 2020 updates Multidimensional Habitability: Exploring the Possibility of Life Beyond Earth https://www.academia.edu/33461406/Multidimensional_Habitability_Exploring_the_Possibility_of_Life_Beyond_Earth Antimatter Propulsion https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20200001904.pdf Atmospheric convection plays a key role in the climate of tidally-locked terrestrial exoplanets: insights from high-resolution simulations https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.03007 Tidal Oscillations of Rotating Hot Jupiters https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.03094 Optical to near-infrared transmission spectrum of the warm sub-Saturn HAT-P-12b https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.03551
April 7, 2020 updates Sulfur-driven haze formation in warm CO2-rich exoplanet atmospheres https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1072-9 Formation of secondary atmospheres on terrestrial planets by late disk accretion https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1050-2 Modelling the He I triplet absorption at 10 830 Å in the atmosphere of HD 209458 b https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/04/aa37175-19/aa37175-19.html Extremely long convergence times in a 3D GCM simulation of the sub-Neptune Gliese 1214b https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.01829 Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov exhibits a structure similar to native Solar System comets https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.02033 Exomoon indicators in high-precision transit light curves https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.02259
April 6, 2020 updates Mass distribution of exoplanets considering some observation selection effects in the transit detection technique https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103520301603
April 3, 2020 updates Interstellar Comet Borisov is no longer in one piece https://www.space.com/interstellar-comet-borisov-two-pieces.html Is there Na I in the atmosphere of HD 209458b? – Effect of the centre-to-limb variation and Rossiter-McLaughlin effect in transmission spectroscopy studies https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/03/aa37221-19/aa37221-19.html Earth’s Polar Night Boundary Layer as an Analog for Dark Side Inversions on Synchronously Rotating Terrestrial Exoplanets https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab7fb3 WASP-4 is Accelerating Toward the Earth https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.00637 Tidal friction in satellites and planets. The new version of the creep tide theory https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.01109
April 2, 2020 updates Is the Kuiper Belt Inhabited?http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2019.72.382 A Preliminary Mass for Proxima Centauri Chttps://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab84f3 Smaller than expected bright-spot offsets in Spitzer phase curves of the hot Jupiter Qatar-1bhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2004.00014
April 1, 2020 updates The Solar System: Favored for Space Travel https://bio-complexity.org/ojs/index.php/main/article/viewArticle/BIO-C.2020.1 Intermittent signals and planetary days in SETI https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/intermittent-signals-and-planetary-days-in-seti/C82E96F87F60F2833576357CEE32FDFB Super‐Earth internal structures and initial thermal states https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2019JE006124 Robustly detecting changes in warm Jupiters’ transit impact parameters https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.13796 Retrograde-rotating exoplanets experience obliquity excitations in an eccentricity-enabled resonance https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.13864 Resolving Exo-Continents with Einstein Ring Deconvolution https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.13918 Thermally Driven Angular Momentum Transport in Hot Jupiters https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.14044 Physical Characterisation of Interstellar Comet 2I/2019 Q4 (Borisov) https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.14064 Outstanding Challenges of Exoplanet Atmospheric Retrievals https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.14311 Allesfitter: Flexible Star and Exoplanet Inference From Photometry and Radial Velocity https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.14371 Kepler’s Dark Worlds: a Low Albedo for an Ensemble of Neptunian and Terran Exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.10213
March 31, 2020 updates Humanity’s Journey to Interstellar Space http://interstellarprobe.jhuapl.edu/ 3rd Annual Interstellar Probe Exploration Workshop https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/interstellarprobe2020/ MIRACLES: atmospheric characterization of directly imaged planets and substellar companions at 4–5 μm – I. Photometric analysis of β Pic b, HIP 65426 b, PZ Tel B, and HD 206893 B https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/03/aa37159-19/aa37159-19.html Characteristics of ion beams generated in the interaction of ultra-short laser pulses with ultra-thin foils https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6587/ab7d26 Zodiacal Exoplanets in Time. X. The Orbit and Atmosphere of the Young “Neptune Desert”-Dwelling Planet K2-100b https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.12940 The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. A super-Earth planet orbiting HD 79211 (GJ 338 B) https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.13052 Orbital inclination and mass of the exoplanet candidate Proxima c https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.13106 The Most Common Habitable Planets II — Salty Oceans in Low Mass Habitable Planets and Global Climate Evolution https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.13107 From Super-Earths to Mini-Neptunes: Implications of a Surface on Atmospheric Circulation https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.13348 Stellar Driven Evolution of Hydrogen-Dominated Atmospheres from Earth-Like to Super-Earth-Type Exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.13412 The Habitability of Large Elliptical Galaxies https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.13643 Evidence for He I 10830 Å~ absorption during the transit of a warm Neptune around the M-dwarf GJ 3470 with the Habitable-zone Planet Finder https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.02070
March 30, 2020 updates Warped Space-time to Help WFIRST Find Exoplanetshttps://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/warped-space-time-to-help-wfirst-find-exoplanets
March 27, 2020 updates Future space telescopes may probe Titan-like exoplanets https://www.space.com/titan-like-exoplanets-future-space-telescopes.html New mission would provide a road map in the search for alien atmospheres https://www.colorado.edu/today/2020/03/26/new-mission-would-provide-road-map-search-alien-atmospheres Exoplanets in the Antarctic Sky. IV. Dual-band Photometry of Variables Found by the CSTAR-II Commissioning Survey at the North Sky https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab7449 Why is it so Cold in Here?: Explaining the Cold Temperatures Retrieved from Transmission Spectra of Exoplanet Atmospheres https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.11548 Transit Duration Variations in Multi-Planet Systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.11590 Earth-size planet formation in the habitable zone of circumbinary stars https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.11682 Habitability of polar regions in tidally locked extrasolar planet near the M-Dwarf stars https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.11732 The SOPHIE search for northern extrasolar planets. XVI. HD 158259: A compact planetary system in a near-3:2 mean motion resonance chain https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.13296 Effects of the general relativistic spin precessions on the habitability of rogue planets orbiting supermassive black holes https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.01518
March 26, 2020 updates Exocomets: A spectroscopic survey https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.11084 An information theoretic framework for classifying exoplanetary system architectures https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.11098 Giants eating giants: Mass loss and giant planets modifying the luminosity of the Tip of the Giant Branch https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.11499
March 25, 2020 updates Scientists discovered inexpensive method to make E-sail tether https://en.ilmatieteenlaitos.fi/press-release/1264989483 The TESS-Keck Survey I: A Warm Sub-Saturn-Mass Planet and a Caution about Stray Light in TESS Cameras https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.10451 TESS spots a hot Jupiter with an inner transiting Neptune https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.10852
March 24, 2020 updates Extraterrestrials https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/extraterrestrials Extraterrestrial Languages https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/extraterrestrial-languages Stellar activity consequence on the retrieved transmission spectra through chromatic Rossiter-McLaughlin observations https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/03/aa37419-19/aa37419-19.html Opportunities to Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.09639 Stellar wind effects on the atmospheres of close-in giants: a possible reduction in escape instead of increased erosion https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.10272 A remnant planetary core in the hot Neptunian desert https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.10314 The Magellan/PFS Exoplanet Search: A 55-day period dense Neptune transiting the bright (V=8.6) star HD 95338 https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.10319
March 23, 2020 updates Utilizing Small Telescopes Operated by Citizen Scientists for Transiting Exoplanet Follow-up https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.09046 The subsurface habitability of small, icy exomoons https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.09231 Expectations for the confirmation of Proxima c from a long-term radial velocity follow-up https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.09305 Water and air consumption aboard interstellar arks https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.09286
March 18, 2020 updates The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Radial velocities and activity indicators from cross-correlation functions with weighted binary masks https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.07471 Tidal and general relativistic effects in rocky planet formation at the sub-stellar mass limit using N-body simulations https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.07509 CHEOPS observations of TESS primary mission monotransits https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.07620 Nodal Precession in Closely Spaced Planet Pairs https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.07835
March 17, 2020 updates HST/STIS transmission spectrum of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-76 b confirms the presence of sodium in its atmosphere https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.06424 Transformative Science from the Lunar Farside: Observations of the Dark Ages and Exoplanetary Systems at Low Radio Frequencies https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.06881
March 16, 2020 updates Emergence of life in an inflationary universe https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-58060-0 Mission to Planet Earth: The First Two Billion Years https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-020-00652-3 Astrometric study of Gaia DR2 stars for interstellar communication https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.03511 Strong biases in retrieved atmospheric composition caused by strong day-night chemical heterogeneities https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.05943 Earth′s polar night boundary layer as an analogue for dark side inversions on synchronously rotating terrestrial exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.06306 Systematic Phase Curve Study of Known Transiting Systems from Year 1 of the TESS Mission https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.06407
March 13, 2020 updates Social and Conceptual Issues in Astrobiology https://www.amazon.com/Social-Conceptual-Issues-Astrobiology-Kelly/dp/019091565X/ How Well Do We Understand the Belt/Zone Circulation of Giant Planet Atmospheres? https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-019-0631-9 Venusian Habitable Climate Scenarios: Modeling Venus through time and applications to slowly rotating Venus-Like Exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.05704 SPHERE+: Imaging young Jupiters down to the snowline https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.05714 Three Short Period Jupiters from TESS https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.05932 Unified simulations of planetary formation and atmospheric evolution: Effects of pebble accretion, giant impacts, and stellar irradiations on super-Earth formation https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.05934
March 12, 2020 updates The Impact of Molecular Oxygen on Anion Composition in a Hazy Archean Earth Atmosphere https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2019.2145 Nightside condensation of iron in an ultrahot giant exoplanet https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2107-1 Resonance in the K2-19 system is at odds with its high reported eccentricities https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.04931 Dynamical instabilities in systems of multiple short-period planets are likely driven by secular chaos: a case study of Kepler-102 https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.05040 The reliability of the Titius-Bode relation and its implications for the search for exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.05121 Atmospheric compositions and observability of nitrogen dominated ultra-short period super-Earths https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.05354 Normalized Angular Momentum Deficit: a tool for comparing the violence of the dynamical histories of planetary systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.05366 A weak spectral signature of water vapour in the atmosphere of HD 179949 b at high spectral resolution in the L-band https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.05397
March 11, 2020 updates Hermeneutics as the Methodology of Interpretation of Languages and Texts of Extraterrestrial Intelligence https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/hermeneutics-as-the-methodology-of-interpretation-of-languages-and-texts-of-extraterrestrial-intelligence Photonic crystal lightsail with nonlinear reflectivity for increased stability https://www.osapublishing.org/oe/fulltext.cfm?uri=oe-28-6-8223&id=428802 Comparing focal plane wavefront control techniques:\Numerical simulations and laboratory experiments https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.04336 Architectures of Exoplanetary Systems. II: An Intrinsic Relation between Planetary System Occurrence and Spectral Type for Kepler’s FGK Dwarfs https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.04348 Searching the Entirety of Kepler Data. I. 17 New Planet Candidates Including 1 Habitable Zone World https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.04397 Probability of simultaneous parallax detection for free-floating planet microlensing events near Galactic Centre https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.04504 LHS 1815b: The First Thick-Disk Planet Detected By TESS https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.04525 Detection of Fe I and Fe II in the atmosphere of MASCARA-2b using a cross-correlation method https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.04650 Searching for Thermal Inversion Agents in the Transmission Spectrum of MASCARA-2b/KELT-20b: Detection of Neutral Iron and Ionised Calcium H&K Lines https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.04856 Modelling the He I triplet absorption at 10830 Angstroms in the atmosphere of HD 209458 b https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.04872 Re-inflation of warm and hot Jupiters https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.04877 Dynamical evolution of close-in binary systems formed by a super-earth and its host star https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.10575
March 10, 2020 updates A Multilayer Perceptron for Obtaining Quick Parameter Estimations of Cool Exoplanets from Geometric Albedo Spectra https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ab740d Sub-Neptune Formation: The View from Resonant Planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.03388 The Atmospheres of Rocky Exoplanets I. Outgassing of Common Rock and the Stability of Liquid Water https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.03628
March 9, 2020 updates Solar One – A Proposal for The First Manned Interstellar Spaceship https://engrxiv.org/qcrxa/ Prospectives in Deep Space Infrastructures, Development, and Colonization https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20200001142.pdf TOI-677b: A Warm Jupiter (P = 11.2 days) on an Eccentric Orbit Transiting a Late F-type Star https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab6f67 Ogle-2018-blg-0677lb: A super earth near the galactic bulge https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.02983 Atmospheric Escape Processes and Planetary Atmospheric Evolution https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.03231 A statistical search for Star-Planet Interaction in the UltraViolet using GALEX https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.03349
March 6, 2020 updates PANOSETI: A Panoramic All-sky All-time Near InfraRed and Optical Technosignature Finder https://oirlab.ucsd.edu/PANOSETI.html Can planetary rings explain the extremely low density of HIP 41378 𝑓? https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/03/aa37618-20/aa37618-20.html Peas in a Pod? Radius correlations in Kepler multi-planet systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.02290 KMT-2019-BLG-1339L: an M Dwarf with a Giant Planet or a Companion Near the Planet/Brown Dwarf Boundary https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.02375 Orbital Refinement and Stellar Properties for the HD 9446, HD 43691, and HD 179079 Planetary Systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.02385 Accurate Machine Learning Atmospheric Retrieval via a Neural Network Surrogate Model for Radiative Transfer https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.02430 Doppler Tomographic Measurement of the Nodal Precession of WASP-33b https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.02724
March 5, 2020 updates Capability considerations for enhancing safety on long duration crewed missions: Insights from a technical interchange meeting on autonomous crew operations https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468896720300082 Pattern recognition in time series for space missions: A rosetta magnetic field case study https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576519314328 Joint Radial Velocity and Direct Imaging Planet Yield Calculations: I. Self-consistent Planet Populations https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.01739 Assessment of astronomical images using combined machine learning models https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.01785 ExoReLR: A Bayesian Inverse Retrieval Framework For Exoplanetary Reflected Light Spectra https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.01814 Breaking Resonant Chains: Destabilization of Resonant Planets due to Long-term Mass Evolution https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.01965 Proxima Centauri b: A Strong Case for including Cosmic-Ray-induced Chemistry in Atmospheric Biosignature Studies https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.02036
March 4, 2020 updates The effect of high nitrogen pressures on the habitable zone and an appraisal of greenhouse states https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa603/5780240 Cloud Atlas: High-precision HST/WFC3/IR Time-resolved Observations of Directly Imaged Exoplanet HD 106906b https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab6f65 A free-floating or wide-orbit planet in the microlensing event OGLE-2019-BLG-0551 https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.01126 A pair of TESS planets spanning the radius valley around the nearby mid-M dwarf LTT 3780 https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.01136 The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Two planets on the opposite sides of the radius gap transiting the nearby M dwarf LP 729-54 https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.01140 Follow-up imaging observations of comet 2I/Borisov https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.01457 Disentangling Atmospheric Compositions of K2-18 b with Next Generation Facilities https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.01486
March 3, 2020 updates NASA Approves Development of Universe-Studying, Planet-Finding Mission https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-approves-development-of-universe-studying-planet-finding-mission Why do warm Neptunes present nonzero eccentricity? https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/03/aa36967-19/aa36967-19.html Exoplanet Occurrence Rates of Mid M-dwarfs Based on Kepler DR25 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab7afd Laser-driven high-velocity microparticle launcher in atmosphere and under vacuum https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0734743X19306402 General Relativity Theory for Navigation https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339389635_PREPRINT_GENERAL_RELATIVITY_THEORY_FOR_NAVIGATION High-resolution spectroscopy and spectropolarimetry of the total lunar eclipse January 2019 https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08690 The white dwarf planet WD J0914+1914 b: barricading potential rocky pollutants? https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.00020 Birth environment of circumbinary planets: are there CBPs on the inclined orbits? https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.00375 Into the UV: A precise transmission spectrum of HAT-P-41b using Hubble’s WFC3/UVIS G280 grism https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.00536
March 2, 2020 updates Modeling and simulating a regenerative life support system to understand the effects of system interaction on survivability during deep space missions https://repository.tudelft.nl/islandora/object/uuid:dc29a485-a014-454f-9dde-aff5bb133c1d TYCHO — Realistically Simulating Exoplanets within Stellar Clusters I: Improving the Monte Carlo Approach https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.12375 Indexing Exoplanets with Physical Conditions Potentially Suitable for Rock-Dependent Extremophiles https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.12650 Achieving the required mobility in the solar system through Direct Fusion Drive https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.12686
February 28, 2020 updates The reliability of the Titius–Bode relation and its implications for the search for exoplanets https://academic.oup.com/pasj/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/pasj/psz146/5763006 Birth environment of circumbinary planets: are there circumbinary planets on inclined orbits? https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/493/2/1907/5764173 The UV surface habitability of Proxima b : first experiments revealing probable life survival to stellar flares https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnrasl/slaa037/5762693 Frequency of Planets in Binaries https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.11734 Direct Multipixel Imaging and Spectroscopy of an Exoplanet with a Solar Gravity Lens Mission https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.11871 Planets in Binaries: Formation and Dynamical Evolution https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.12006
February 27, 2020 updates A probabilistic analysis of the Fermi paradox in terms of the Drake formula: the role of the L factor https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa512/5741733 Grand challenges for nanophotonics: Steering and riding light https://authors.library.caltech.edu/101355/ Energy-sensitive Detectors for Astronomy: Past, Present and Future https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1387647320300038 High-Energy and High-Quality Ion beams in Light Sail Acceleration https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.11563 The interior and atmosphere of the habitable-zone exoplanet K2-18b https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.11115 Fingerprints of giant planets in the composition of solar twins https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.11135 Can planetary rings explain the extremely low density of HIP 41378f? https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.11422
February 26, 2020 updates Searching the Entirety of Kepler Data. I. 17 New Planet Candidates Including One Habitable Zone World https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab6cf8 Cloud Atlas: Weak Color Modulations Due to Rotation in the Planetary-mass Companion GU Psc b and 11 Other Brown Dwarfs https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab5f59 Circumbinary Planets — The Next Steps https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.10492 The GAPS Programme at TNG XXI — A GIARPS case-study of known young planetary candidates: confirmation of HD 285507 b and refutation of AD Leo b https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.10562 Is there NaI in the atmosphere of HD 209458b? Effect of the centre-to-limb variation and Rossiter-McLaughlin effect in transmission spectroscopy studies https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.10595 Energy Optimization in Extrasolar Planetary Systems: The Transition from Peas-in-a-Pod to Runaway Growth https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.10661 Fourth-order Coronagraph for High-Contrast Imaging of Exoplanets with Off-axis Segmented Telescopes https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.10762 Spatial distribution of exoplanet candidates based on Kepler and Gaia data https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.10823 TRAPPIST-1 Habitable Atmosphere Intercomparison (THAI). Motivations and protocol version 1.0 https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.10950
February 25, 2020 updates EDEN: Sensitivity Analysis and Transiting Planet Detection Limits for Nearby Late Red Dwarfs https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.10017 Distinguishing multicellular life on exoplanets by testing Earth as an exoplanet https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.10368 Extrasolar enigmas: from disintegrating exoplanets to exoasteroids https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.10370
February 24, 2020 updates The winter-over syndrome and the potential lessons for space travel https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/handle/10092/18567 Third Displacement: Cosmobiology, Cosmolocality, Cosmosocioecology https://www.amazon.com/Third-Displacement-Cosmobiology-Cosmolocality-Cosmosocioecology-ebook/dp/B084T5QSDM/ Chemical Diversity of Super-Earths As a Consequence of Formation https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.09042 Fly-by encounters between two planetary systems II: Exploring the interactions of diverse planetary system architectures https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.09271
February 21, 2020 updates Giant planet swaps during close stellar encounters https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08366 Linking the formation and fate of exo-Kuiper belts within solar system analogues https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08372 Detection of Na, K, and Hα absorption in the atmosphere of WASP-52b using ESPRESSO https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08379 The Dark Planets of the WASP-47 Planetary System https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08381 Stabilization of dayside surface liquid water via tropopause cold trapping on arid slowly rotating tidally locked planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08600 Coherent radio emission from a quiescent red dwarf indicative of star-planet interaction https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08727 Observational Constraints on the Great Filter https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08776 A crucial test for astronomical spectrograph calibration with frequency combs https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08868
February 20, 2020 updates Architecture of three-planet systems predicted from the observed protoplanetary disk of HL Tau https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08036 The Stellar Variability Noise Floor for Transiting Exoplanet Photometry with PLATO https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08072 The role of disc torques in forming resonant planetary systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08077 On the Likelihood of Observing Extragalactic Civilizations: Predictions from the Self-Indication Assumption https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08194
February 19, 2020 updates Partial Ownership for Outer Space Economy https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42423-019-00042-0 Observational Signatures of Sub-Relativistic Meteors https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.01476 3D magneto-hydrodynamical simulations of stellar convective noise for improved exoplanet detection. I. Case of regularly sampled radial velocity observations https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.07457 Anoxic weathering of mafic oceanic crust promotes atmospheric oxygenation https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.07667
February 18, 2020 updates Hardware-In-The-Loop Testing of Formation Flying Control and Sensing Algorithms for Starshade Missions https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576520300734 Coupled Thermal and Compositional Evolution of Photo Evaporating Planet Envelopes https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.06466 Bringing high spatial resolution to the Far-infrared — A giant leap for astrophysics https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.06693 Stellar masks and bisector’s shape for M-type stars observed in the GAPS Programme with HARPS-N at TNG https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.06844 Empirical Line Lists in the ExoMol Database https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.06939
February 17, 2020 updates Breakthrough Listen’s Search for Intelligent Life (SETI) Releases Unprecedented Data Survey of Milky Way’s Galactic Center, Earth Transit Zone and Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov https://breakthroughinitiatives.org/news/28 Coherent radio emission from a quiescent red dwarf indicative of star–planet interaction https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1011-9 Advances in Mach Effect Gravitational Assist (MEGA) Drive Experimentation http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2019.72.376 NRAO, SETI Institute Agree on New Research Programs https://public.nrao.edu/news/nrao-seti-institute-new-research/ Extrasolar Terrestrial Planet Characterization and the Search for Life https://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2020/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/25450 Hunting for Technosignatures https://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2020/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/25448 When is the Evidence Sufficient to Claim the Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life? https://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2020/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/25451 New aluminium hydroxide at multimegabar pressures: Implications for water reservoirs in deep planetary interiors https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103518306274 COol Companions ON Ultrawide orbiTS (COCONUTS). I. A High-Gravity T4 Benchmark around an Old White Dwarf and A Re-Examination of the Surface-Gravity Dependence of the L/T Transition https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.05723 Planetary Architectures in Interacting Stellar Environments https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.05727 HATS-47b, HATS-48Ab, HATS-49b and HATS-72b: Four Warm Giant Planets Transiting K Dwarfs https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.05776 Evidence for Spin-orbit Alignment in the TRAPPIST-1 System https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.05892 The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: A 3.95-8.00 GHz Search for Radio Technosignatures in the Restricted Earth Transit Zone https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.06162 Evaluating the Effect of Four Immeasurable Parameters Included in a Latitudinal Energy Balance Model on the Habitability of Exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.06907
February 14, 2020 updates The Transit and Light Curve Modeller https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa349/5731867 Outer Planet Single-transit Detections with LSST https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.05453 Precision and consistency of astrocombs https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.05182 Irradiated ocean planets bridge super-Earth and sub-Neptune populations https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.05243 One Planet or Two Planets? The Ultra-sensitive Extreme-magnification Microlensing Event KMT-2019-BLG-1953 https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.05310
February 13, 2020 updates Effects of Mirror Seeing on High-Contrast Adaptive Optics Instruments https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.04649 The TRAPPIST-1 JWST Community Initiative https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.04798
February 12, 2020 updates Prospects for Interstellar Propulsion https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20200000759&hterms=Prospects+Interstellar+Propulsion A Sub-Neptune-sized Planet Transiting the M2.5 Dwarf G 9-40: Validation with the Habitable-zone Planet Finder https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab5f15 Advances in Deep Space Exploration via Simulators & Deep Learning https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.04051
February 11, 2020 updates What is Paradoxical About ‘Fermi’s Paradox’? https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10441-020-09376-x Improving transit characterisation with Gaussian process modelling of stellar variability https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/02/aa36086-19/aa36086-19.html Atmospheric Erosion by Giant Impacts onto Terrestrial Planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02977 Propulsion of Spacecrafts to Relativistic Speeds Using Natural Astrophysical Sources https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.03247 Implications of Abiotic Oxygen Buildup for Earth-like Complex Life https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.03248 ExoSim: the Exoplanet Observation Simulator https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.03739 Radio eclipses of exoplanets by the winds of their host stars https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.03901 HD 191939: Three Sub-Neptunes Transiting a Sun-like Star Only 54 pc Away https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.03958
February 10, 2020 updates Case Study of an Interstellar Mission to Luhman 16: Unmanned Interstellar Probe Powered by Gas Core Nuclear Reactors https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337000501_Case_Study_of_an_Interstellar_Mission_to_Luhman_16_Unmanned_Interstellar_Probe_Powered_by_Gas_Core_Nuclear_Reactors On A Hypothetical Mechanism of Interstellar Life Transfer Trough Nomadic Objects https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11084-020-09591-z A crucial test for astronomical spectrograph calibration with frequency combs https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1010-x Kepler-1661 b: A Neptune-sized Kepler Transiting Circumbinary Planet around a Grazing Eclipsing Binar https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab665b GJ 1252 b: A 1.2 R ⊕ Planet Transiting an M3 Dwarf at 20.4 pc https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab7020 Planetary evolution with atmospheric photoevaporation I. Analytical derivation and numerical study of the evaporation valley and transition from super-Earths to sub-Neptunes https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02455 The Impact of Planetary Rotation Rate on the Reflectance and Thermal Emission Spectrum of Terrestrial Exoplanets Around Sun-like Stars https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02549 Occurrence Rates of Planets Orbiting M Stars: Applying ABC to Kepler DR25, Gaia DR2, and 2MASS Data https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02573 The continuing search for evidence of tidal orbital decay of hot Jupiters https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02606 Non-detection of TiO and VO in the atmosphere of WASP-121b using high-resolution spectroscopy https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02795 Occurrence and Architecture of Kepler Planetary Systems as Functions of Stellar Mass and Effective Temperature https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02840 Unveiling cloudy exoplanets: the influence of cloud model choices on retrieval solutions https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02945
February 7, 2020 updates Deep Space (Treaty) Exploration: Reviving Today’s Obsolete Space Treaties https://digitalcommons.law.msu.edu/ilr/vol28/iss1/1/ How the Privatization of Space Exploration Will Positively Effect Humanity https://jenacrangnow.wordpress.com/2019/01/06/the-privatization-of-space-exploration/ Artificial versus Biological Intelligence in the Cosmos: Clues from a Stochastic Analysis of the Drake Equation https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.11644 Can polarity-inverted membranes self-assemble on Titan? https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/4/eaax0272 Orbit classification in exoplanetary systems https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/02/aa37224-19/aa37224-19.html Precision and consistency of astrocombs https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa356/5729051 Doppler shifts and spectral line profile changes in the starlight scattered from an exoplanet https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa268/5729057 On the impact of tides on the transit-timing fits to the TRAPPIST-1 system https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02015 First SETI Observations with China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02130 The Bimodal Distribution in Exoplanet Radii: Considering Varying Core Compositions and H2 Envelop Sizes https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02166
February 6, 2020 updates Surfing a Supernova https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/surfing-a-supernova/ The origin of life as a planetary phenomenon https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/6/eaax3419 Effects of an intrinsic magnetic field on ion loss from ancient Mars based on multispecies MHD simulations https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2019JA026945 A Framework for Optimizing Exoplanet Target Selection for the James Webb Space Telescope https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.01495 Three planets transiting the evolved star EPIC 249893012: a hot 8.8-M⊕ super-Earth and two warm 14.7 and 10.2-M⊕ sub-Neptunes https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.01755 The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Characterization of the nearby ultra-compact multiplanetary system YZ Ceti https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.01772 Exo-MerCat: a merged exoplanet catalog with Virtual Observatory connection https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.01834
February 5, 2020 updates Immune recognition of putative alien microbial structures: Host–pathogen interactions in the age of space travel https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1008153 Light Sailing into the Great Beyond https://www.osapublishing.org/opn/abstract.cfm?uri=opn-31-2-30 Traversable wormholes in R+αRn gravity https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7587-5 The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: Observations of 1327 Nearby Stars Over 1.10–3.45 GHz https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab65f1 The Design of a Space-based Observation and Tracking System for Interstellar Objects https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.00984 A comparison of exoplanet spectroscopic retrieval tools https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.01063 Three-dimensional modelling of absorption by various species for hot Jupiter HD 209458b https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.01198 Effects of Radiation Pressure on the Evaporative Wind of HD 209458b https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.00075
February 4, 2020 updates Revisited mass-radius relations for exoplanets below 120 M⊕ https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/02/aa36482-19/aa36482-19.html Lens Flare: Magnified X-Ray Binaries as Passive Beacons in SETI https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.00128 triceratops: A Tool for Rapid Validation of TESS Objects of Interest and Application to 424 Planet Candidates https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.00691 Understanding and Mitigating Biases when Studying Inhomogeneous Emission Spectra with JWST https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.00773 The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Dynamical characterization of the multiple planet system GJ 1148 and prospects of habitable exomoons around GJ 1148 b https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.00906
February 3, 2020 updates A Machian wave effect in conformal, scalar–tensor gravitational theory https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10714-019-2547-9 Inertia and propulsion in general relativity: a reply to rodal https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10714-019-2654-7 Scaling K2. I. Revised Parameters for 222,088 K2 Stars and a K2 Planet Radius Valley at 1.9 R⊕ https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.11511 Scaling K2. II. Assembly of a Fully Automated C5 Planet Candidate Catalog Using EDI-Vetter https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.11515 Interstellar comet 2I/Borisov as seen by MUSE: C2, NH2 and red CN detections https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.11605
January 31, 2020 updates MOVES III. Simultaneous X-ray and ultraviolet observations unveiling the variable environment of the hot Jupiter HD 189733b https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.11048 TraMoS V. Updated ephemeris and multi-epoch monitoring of the hot Jupiters WASP-18Ab, WASP-19b, and WASP-77Ab https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.11112 Implications of three-dimensional chemical transport in hot Jupiter atmospheres: results from a consistently coupled chemistry-radiation-hydrodynamics model https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.11444
January 30, 2020 updates Cheops opens its eye to the sky https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Cheops/Cheops_opens_its_eye_to_the_sky KIDSpec: An MKID-Based Medium-Resolution, Integral Field Spectrograph https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10909-020-02347-z Starshade formation flying I: optical sensing https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.10575 Detection of the phase curve and occultation of WASP-100b with TESS https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.10580 Dangerous stellar encounters with an Earth-like planet in the Milky Way galaxy https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.10595 Radial velocity constraints on the long-period transiting planet Kepler-1625 b with CARMENES https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.10867 Habitable zones around almost extremely spinning black holes (black sun revisited) https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.10991
January 29, 2020 updates GAO warns of more JWST delays https://spacenews.com/gao-warns-of-more-jwst-delays/ NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe Mission Enters Design Phase https://www.swri.org/press-release/imap-codice-solar-wind-particle-acceleration Does artificial intelligence dream of non-terrestrial techno-signatures? https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S009457651931392X Red Dots: A temperate 1.5 Earth-mass planet candidate in a compact multi-terrestrial planet system around GJ 1061 https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa248/5717319 MOVES III. Simultaneous X-ray and ultraviolet observations unveiling the variable environment of the hot Jupiter HD 189733b https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa256/5717312 Seismicity on tidally active solid-surface worlds https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103518307243 Technological Challenges in Low-mass Interstellar Probe Communication https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.09987
January 28, 2020 updates Quantifying the Bayesian Evidence for a Planet in Radial Velocity Data https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab5190 The Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey: Dynamical Mass of the Exoplanet β Pictoris b from Combined Direct Imaging and Astrometry https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab5b92 Ondřejov Echelle Spectrograph, Ground Based Support Facility for Exoplanet Missions https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ab6752 A hot terrestrial planet orbiting the bright M dwarf L 168-9 unveiled by TESS https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.09175 Atmosphere Origins for Exoplanet Sub-Neptunes https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.09269 On the aspect ratio of Oumuamua: less elongated shape for irregular surface properties https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.09283 Reviewing METI: A Critical Analysis of the Arguments https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.05663 Virtual European Solar & Planetary Access (VESPA): a Planetary Science Virtual Observatory cornerstone https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.06521
January 27, 2020 updates Asteroseismic Characterization of Exoplanet-host stars in preparation for NASA’s TESS and ESA’s PLATO space missions https://hdl.handle.net/10216/125557 How Earth Climate Models Help Scientists Picture Life on Unimaginable Worlds https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/how-earth-climate-models-help-scientists-picture-life-on-unimaginable-worlds Astrophysics of Planet Formation https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/astrophysics-of-planet-formation/B8930D0AAA52F707BDA8A33F67DEA40E Detection of Diatomic Carbon in 2I/Borisov https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab6bd9 Mass determinations of the three mini-Neptunes transiting TOI-125 https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.08834 Effect of vegetation on the temperatures of Trappist-1 planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.08946 Post-Detection SETI Protocols & METI: The Time Has Come To Regulate Them Both https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.08422 Challenges in Scientific Data Communication from Low-Mass Interstellar Probe https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.07778
January 24, 2020 updates Collisional formation of massive exomoons of super-terrestrial exoplanets https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa211/5715471 On the Habitable Lifetime of Terrestrial Worlds with High Radionuclide Abundances https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab68e5 A multiplicity study of transiting exoplanet host stars. I. High-contrast imaging with VLT/SPHERE https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.08224 A multiplicity study of transiting exoplanet host stars. II. Revised properties of transiting planetary systems with companions https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.08225 Cloud Atlas: High-precision HST/WFC3/IR Time-Resolved Observations of Directly-Imaged Exoplanet HD106906b https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.08304 A Search for Transiting Planets in the Globular Cluster M4 with K2: Candidates and Occurrence Limits https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.08362
January 23, 2020 updates Mass determinations of the three mini-Neptunes transiting TOI-125 https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa197/5714765 Eating Planets for Lunch and Dinner: Signatures of Planet Consumption by Evolving Stars https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab5b00
January 22, 2020 updates Spacecraft Guidance Sensing at Relativistic Velocities https://www.intechopen.com/books/advances-in-spacecraft-attitude-control/spacecraft-guidance-sensing-at-relativistic-velocities On the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-journal-of-international-law/article/on-the-search-for-extraterrestrial-intelligence-seti/F6EB673C1E3F670D1DE68588824636B1 The Habitable Exoplanet Observatory (HabEx) Mission Concept Study Final Report https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.06683 Hot Exoplanet Atmospheres Resolved with Transit Spectroscopy (HEARTS) III. Atmospheric structure of the misaligned ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-121b https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.06836 Detection of neutral atomic species in the ultra-hot jupiter WASP-121b https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.07196 TOI-257b (HD 19916b): A Warm sub-Saturn on a Moderately Eccentric Orbit Around an Evolved F-type Star https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.07345 Confirmation of WASP-107b’s extended Helium atmosphere with Keck II/NIRSPEC https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.07667
January 21, 2020 updates A Deep Dive into Tidal Lock https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2020/01/20/a-deep-dive-into-tidal-lock/
January 20, 2020 updates Atmospheric circulation of tidally locked gas giants with increasing rotation and implications for white-dwarf-brown-dwarf systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.06269 Detection of Fe I in the atmosphere of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-121b, and a new likelihood-based approach for Doppler-resolved spectroscopy https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.06430
January 17, 2020 updates Aspects of Pulsar Navigation for Deep Space Mission Applications https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40295-019-00209-9 Regime-switching model detection map for direct exoplanet detection in ADI sequences https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/01/aa36421-19/aa36421-19.html Expected performances of the Characterising Exoplanet Satellite (CHEOPS) II. The CHEOPS simulator https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.05587 A public HARPS radial velocity database corrected for systematic errors https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.05942
January 16, 2020 updates Controversy over giant telescope roils astronomy conference in Hawaii https://www.space.com/thirty-meter-telescope-controversy-roils-astronomy-conference.html A low-mass planet candidate orbiting Proxima Centauri at a distance of 1.5 AU https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/3/eaax7467 Tidal disruption of planetary bodies by white dwarfs II: Debris disc structure and ejected interstellar asteroids https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa143/5707428 Visions of a Martian Future https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0016328720300045 Wind erosion on Mars and other small terrestrial planets https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103519302726 A toolbox for identifying the expression of dome-forming volcanism on exoplanets https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0032063319302648
January 15, 2020 updates Fundamental limits from chaos on instability time predictions in compact planetary systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.04606 Global Chemistry and Thermal Structure Models for the Hot Jupiter WASP-43b and Predictions for JWST https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.04759 Water production rates and activity of interstellar comet 2I/Borisov https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.04865 The high-energy environment and atmospheric escape of the mini-Neptune K2-18 b https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.04532
January 14, 2020 updates In-Space Manufacturing: The Gateway to the High Frontier and an Enabling Technology for Human Space Exploration https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20200000035.pdf Natural intelligence and anthropic reasoning https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.01109 Understanding the atmospheric properties and chemical composition of the ultra-hot Jupiter HAT-P-7b II. Mapping the effects of gas kinetics https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.03668 Simulated mass measurements of the young planet K2-33b https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.04304
January 13, 2020 updates Detrending Exoplanetary Transit Light Curves with Long Short-Term Memory Networks https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.03370
January 10, 2020 updates Extremophilic models for astrobiology: haloarchaeal survival strategies and pigments for remote sensing https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00792-019-01126-3 Detecting Interstellar Objects Through Stellar Occultations https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.02681 Kepler-1661 b: A Neptune-sized Kepler Transiting Circumbinary Planet around a Grazing Eclipsing Binary https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.02840 Near-ultraviolet Transmission Spectroscopy of HD 209458b: Evidence of Ionized Iron Beyond the Planetary Roche Lobe https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.03126 Magnitude and direction of the local interstellar magnetic field inferred from Voyager 1 and 2 interstellar data and global heliospheric model https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.03061
January 9, 2020 updates A new tool for ‘weighing’ unseen planets https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/a-new-tool-for-weighing-unseen-planets NEID Exoplanet Instrument Sees First Light https://www.nationalastro.org/news/neid-exoplanet-instrument-sees-first-light/ Goldilocks Stars Are Best Places to Look for Life https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2020/news-2020-06 Concept Design of Occulter Using Modular Self-Deployable Membrane Truss https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2020-1182 Circumstellar environment of 55 Cancri – The super-Earth 55 Cnc e as a primary target for star–planet interactions https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/01/aa37186-19/aa37186-19.html Transfer of Life by Earth-Grazing Objects to Exoplanetary Systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.02235
January 8, 2020 updates On the Maximization of the Science Output of Space Missions https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-019-0628-4 Sensitive probing of exoplanetary oxygen via mid-infrared collisional absorption https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-019-0977-7 Discovery of TESS Mission’s First Circumbinary Planet https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2020/01/07/discovery-of-tess-missions-first-circumbinary-planet/ Atmospheric Characterization and Further Orbital Modeling of κ Andromeda b https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab5afa Search for Nearby Earth Analogs. II. Detection of Five New Planets, Eight Planet Candidates, and Confirmation of Three Planets around Nine Nearby M Dwarfs https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/ab5e7c Dead Zones of Classical Habitability in Stellar Binary Systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.01754 An ultra-short period rocky super-Earth orbiting the G2-star HD 80653 https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.02217 Habitability and Water Loss Limits on Eccentric Planets Orbiting Main Sequence Stars https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.02228
January 7, 2020 Updates The First Habitable Zone Earth-sized Planet from TESS. I: Validation of the TOI-700 System https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.00952 The First Habitable Zone Earth-Sized Planet From TESS II: Spitzer Confirms TOI-700 d https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.00954 The First Habitable Zone Earth-sized Planet from TESS. III: Climate States and Characterization Prospects for TOI-700 d https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.00955 Ondr}ejov echelle spectrograph, ground based support facility for exoplanet missions https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.01001 Testing the solar activity paradigm in the context of exoplanet transits https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.01093 Analysis of some Semi-Detached systems observed by TESS https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.01292 The evolutionary track of H/He envelope in the observed population of sub-Neptunes and Super-Earths planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.01299 Earth-Like: An education & outreach tool for exploring the diversity of planets like our own https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.01438
January 6, 2020 updates Demonstration of Deployment Accuracy of the Starshade Inner Disk Subsystem https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2020-1670 Thin-Ply Thermoplastic Composites for Foldable Structures https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2020-0206 Stowage and Recovery of Thin-ply Composite Deployable Structures https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2020-0205 Detecting and Characterizing Water Vapor in the Atmospheres of Earth Analogs through Observation of the 0.94 μm Feature in Reflected Light https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab5a8a There’s No Place Like Home (in Our Own Solar System): Searching for ET Near White Dwarfs https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.00673
January 3, 2020 updates MuSCAT2 multicolour validation of TESS candidates: an ultra-short-period substellar object around an M dwarf https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/01/aa35958-19/aa35958-19.html A robust, template-free approach to precise radial velocity extraction https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz3599/5695753 High-resolution Spectra and Biosignatures of Earth-like Planets Transiting White Dwarfs https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.00049 High resolution Spectra of Earth-Like Planets Orbiting Red Giant Host Stars https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.00050 Deflating Super-Puffs: Impact of Photochemical Hazes on the Observed Mass-Radius Relationship of Low Mass Planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.00055 How planetary surfaces can shape the climate of habitable exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.00085 Creation and Evolution of Impact-generated Reduced Atmospheres of Early Earth https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.00095 Using Data Imputation for Signal Separation in High Contrast Imaging https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.00563
January 2, 2020 updates 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 Radius Gap https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.12305 Bound in Shallows: Space Exploration and Institutional Drift https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2019/12/27/bound-in-shallows-space-exploration-and-institutional-drift/
January 1, 2020 Updates 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 Perihelion Period https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.12730 MIRACLES: atmospheric characterization of directly imaged planets and substellar companions at 4-5 micron. I. Photometric analysis of β Pic b, HIP 65426 b, PZ Tel B and HD 206893 B https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.13316
December 31, 2019 Updates 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
December 31, 2019 Updates 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
December 30, 2019 Updates 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 Signals https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab53ec
December 26, 2019 updates 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
December 25, 2019 updates 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 to snowball driven by sea-ice drift on tidally locked terrestrial planets https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.11377
December 24, 2019 updates 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 compact multi-planet system around a bright nearby star from the Dispersed Matter Planet Project https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-019-0974-x TOI 564 b and TOI 905 b: Grazing and Fully Transiting Hot Jupiters Discovered by TESS https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.10186 A search for the origin of the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.10213 Gemini-GRACES high-quality spectra of Kepler evolved stars with transiting planets I. Detailed characterization of multi-planet systems Kepler-278 and Kepler-391 https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.10278 The Detectability and Constraints of Biosignature Gases in the Near & Mid-Infrared from Transit Transmission Spectroscopy https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.10939 Orbital Stability of Circumstellar Planets in Binary Systems https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.11019
December 23, 2019 updates 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 vector expansion to estimate Earth-like exoplanet temperatures from infrared emission spectra https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.09706
December 20, 2019 updates 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 Driven Mass Loss https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.08820
December 19, 2019 updates 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 planet search sample. III. Sulfur https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.08659 Tidal evolution of circumbinary systems with arbitrary eccentricities: applications for Kepler systems https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.08728 Ozone chemistry on tidally locked M dwarf planets https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.08743 Clouds will likely prevent the detection of water vapor in JWST transmission spectra of terrestrial exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.08781
December 18, 2019 updates 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 phase diagram to 2300 MPa https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2019JE006176 TauREx III: A fast, dynamic and extendable framework for retrievals https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.07759 Can close-in giant exoplanets preserve detectable moons? https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.08049
December 17, 2019 updates 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 planet migration and influence stellar rotation? https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.06867 Is pi Men c’s atmosphere hydrogen-dominated? Insights from a non-detecton of Hy Ly-alpha absorption https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.06913 A new chemical scheme for giant planet thermochemistry. Update of the methanol chemistry and new reduced chemical scheme https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.07246 Evolving Coma Morphology of Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov with Deep HST Imaging https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.07386
December 16, 2019 updates 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 Selection Effects https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063773719100049 Stepwise Earth oxygenation is an inherent property of global biogeochemical cycling https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6471/1333 Diffusion of volatiles in hot stagnant-lid regime planets https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0032063319302922 Low Resolution Optical Spectra and Diatomic Carbon Detections of 2I/Borisov https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.06161 The LUVOIR Mission Concept Study Final Report https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.06219
December 13, 2019 updates 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 Thought Experiment on the Potential and Limitations of Propellantless Interstellar Travel https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2019/12/12/swimmers-a-thought-experiment-on-the-potential-and-limitations-of-propellantless-interstellar-travel/ The young planetary system K2-25: constraints on companions and starspots https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.05552 GJ 1252 b: A 1.2 R⊕ planet transiting an M-dwarf at 20.4 pc https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.05556 Do the TRAPPIST-1 Planets Have Hydrogen-rich Atmospheres? https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.05749 Hot Super-Earths with Hydrogen Atmospheres: A Model Explaining Their Paradoxical Existence https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.05884 HST/STIS capability for Love number measurement of WASP-121b https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.05889
December 12, 2019 updates 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 of a Common-path Coherent-dispersion Spectrometer for Exoplanet Searches https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ab503a Mass-Metallicity Trends in Transiting Exoplanets from Atmospheric Abundances of H2O, Na, and K https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.04904 Searching for water ice in the coma of interstellar object 2I/Borisov https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.05318 Climate bistability of Earth-like exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.05392 The Nucleus of Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.05422
December 11, 2019 updates 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 Sco-Cen member https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.04284 Upper Limits on Planet Occurrence around Ultracool Dwarfs with K2 https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.04286 Constraining Orbital Periods from Nonconsecutive Observations: Period Estimates for Long-Period Planets in Six Systems Observed by K2 During Multiple Campaigns https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.04287 Constraints on Aquatic Photosynthesis for Terrestrial Planets Around Other Stars https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.04301 The Influence of Stellar Contamination on the Interpretation of Near Infrared Transmission Spectra of Sub-Neptune Worlds around M-Dwarfs https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.04389
December 10, 2019 updates 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 https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.03503 The circumstellar environment of 55 Cnc: The super-Earth 55 Cnc e as a primary target for star-planet interactions https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.03736 Star-planet interaction through spectral lines https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.03778 KMT-2019-BLG-0842Lb: A Cold Planet Below the Uranus/Sun Mass Ratio https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.03822
December 9, 2019 updates 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 XO-7 b: A transiting hot Jupiter with a massive companion on a wide orbit https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.02821 Habitable Age Instead of Location for Terrestrial Worlds https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.02862
December 6, 2019 updates 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 Atmospheres: Modeled High Resolution Emission Spectra from 3D General Circulation Models https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.02268 O2- and CO-Rich Atmospheres for Potentially Habitable Environments on TRAPPIST-1 Planets https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.02313 Cold giant planets evaporated by hot white dwarfs https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.02345 A Linear Formation Flying Astronomical Interferometer in Low Earth Orbit https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.02350 Superabundance of Exoplanet Sub-Neptunes Explained by Fugacity Crisis https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.02701 Wind of Change: retrieving exoplanet atmospheric winds from high-resolution spectroscopy https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.02787 Interstellar communication network. I. Overview and assumptions https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.02616
December 5, 2019 updates 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 https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.01699 Cool Jupiters greatly outnumber their toasty siblings: Occurrence rates from the Anglo-Australian Planet Search https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.01821 Evolution of the radius valley around low mass stars from Kepler and K2 https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.02170
December 4, 2019 updates 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 An apparently eccentric orbit of the exoplanet WASP-12 b as a radial velocity signature of planetary-induced tides in the host star https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.01360 Effects of the general relativistic spin precessions on the habitability of rogue planets orbiting supermassive black holes https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.01518 Habitability on local, Galactic and cosmological scales https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.01569
December 3, 2019 updates 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 Stability of Extended, Inclined Circumplanetary Disk or Ring Systems https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.00034 A sub-Neptune sized planet transiting the M2.5-dwarf G 9-40: Validation with the Habitable-zone Planet Finder https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.00291 Mutual Orbital Inclinations Between Cold Jupiters and Inner Super-Earths https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.00387
December 2, 2019 updates 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 the interior structure of low-mass exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.12745 RefPlanets: Search for reflected light from extra-solar planets with SPHERE/ZIMPOL https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.12759 THOR 2.0: Major Improvements to the Open-Source General Circulation Model https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.13158 The SOPHIE search for northern extrasolar planets. XVII. A compact planetary system in a near 3:2 mean motion resonance chain https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.13296
November 29, 2019 updates 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
November 28, 2019 updates 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 Search. VIII. Complete results and the occurrence rate of planets around low-luminosity giants https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.11954 Exoplanet Vision 2050 https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.12114 Interstellar Asteroid Rotation with the Mechanical Torque Produced by Interstellar Medium https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.12228
November 27, 2019 updates 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 of TESS and Kepler measurements of Kepler-13Ab https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.11399 The Huntsman Telescope https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.11579
November 26, 2019 updates 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 Directly Imaging Young Giant Planets at Optical Wavelengths https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.10585 Different types of star-planet interactions https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.10915 Estimating Planetary Mass with Deep Learning https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.11035 An Arc-Length Approximation For Elliptical Orbits https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.10584
November 25, 2019 updates 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 Earth-like planets https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/204833/factsheet/en Volcanic activity and the exosphere of HD3167b https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.09916 Atmospheric Characterization and Further Orbital Modeling of κ And b https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.09758
November 22, 2019 updates 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 of Water Vapor For Exo-Earths https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab5964 The Orbit of WASP-12b is Decaying https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.09131 A mirage of the cosmic shoreline: Venus-like clouds as a statistical false positive for exoplanet atmospheric erosion https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.09132 Detecting and Characterizing Water Vapor in the Atmospheres of Earth Analogs through Observation of the 0.94 Micron Feature in Reflected Light https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.09211 Exploring Whether Super-Puffs Can Be Explained as Ringed Exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.09673
November 21, 2019 updates 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 Transmission Spectra of Habitable Zone Planets in the TRAPPIST-1 System https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.08596 NASA Probe Study Report: Farside Array for Radio Science Investigations of the Dark ages and Exoplanets (FARSIDE) https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.08649 A super-solar metallicity atmosphere for WASP-127b revealed by transmission spectroscopy from HST and Spitzer https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.08859 Revised mass-radius relationships for water-rich terrestrial planets beyond the runaway greenhouse limit https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.08878
November 20, 2019 updates 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 Transits of White Dwarfs with the Zwicky Transient Facility https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.07889 A Holistic and Probabilistic Approach to the Ground-based Data of HAT-P-19 System https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.07903 Stability of exoplanetary systems retrieved from scalar time series https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.07957 Transit Timing Variations of Five Transiting Planets https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.08331 ROME (Radio Observations of Magnetized Exoplanets). II. HD 189733 Does Not Accrete Significant Material from its Exoplanet like a T Tauri Star from A Disk https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.08357 Emergence of life in an inflationary universe https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.08092
November 19, 2019 updates 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 observations https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz3213/5628343 Obliquity Evolution of Circumstellar Planets in Sun-like Stellar Binaries https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab46b5 When is chemical disequilibrium in Earth-like planetary atmospheres a biosignature versus an anti-biosignature? Disequilibria from dead to living worlds https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.06852 Periodic transit timing variations and refined system parameters of the exoplanet XO-6b https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.07054 An extremely low-density and temperate giant exoplanet https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.07355 Asteroseismology of the Multiplanet System K2-93 https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.07519 Know thy star, know thy planet: Chemo-kinematically characterizing TESS targets https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.07825
November 18, 2019 updates 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 Habitability https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063773719080097 NASA Instrument to Probe Planet Clouds on European Mission https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-instrument-to-probe-planet-clouds-on-european-mission Unravelling the neural network of torpor https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-10-unravelling-neural-network-torpor.html Hibernation https://www.esa.int/gsp/ACT/projects/hibernation.html HyDRA-H: Simultaneous Hybrid Retrieval of Exoplanetary Emission Spectra https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab4efc Toward a More Complex Description of Chemical Profiles in Exoplanet Retrievals: A Two-layer Parameterization https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab4a14 New aluminium hydroxide at multimegabar pressures: Implications for water reservoirs in deep planetary interiors https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103518306274 CEESA meets machine learning: A Constant Elasticity Earth Similarity Approach to habitability and classification of exoplanets https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213133719300319 Idealised simulations of the deep atmosphere of hot jupiters: Deep, hot, adiabats as a robust solution to the radius inflation problem https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.06546 Revisited Mass-Radius relations for exoplanets below 120 Earth masses https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.04745
