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May 23, 2022 Updates Intergalactic Travel With MOND Rockets https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/MOND_arXiv.pdf The 2821 Star Southern Hemisphere Optical SETI Survey: An Archival Search for Candidate Laser Signals in ESO’s HARPS Spectroscope Database https://digitalrepository.wheatoncollege.edu/handle/11040/32536 Internal structures and magnetic moments of rocky planets Application to the first exoplanets discovered by TESS https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/05/aa42781-21/aa42781-21.html Do tides destabilize Trojan exoplanets? https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103522001968 The unpopular Package: A Data-driven Approach to Detrending TESS Full-frame Image Light Curves https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac625a Earth as a Proxy Exoplanet: Simulating DSCOVR/EPIC Observations Using the Earth Spectrum Simulator https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac5e2e The Detection of Transiting Exoplanets by Gaia https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.10197 A giant planet shaping the disk around the very low mass star CIDA 1 https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.10219 Intermediate Points for Missions to Interstellar Objects Using Optimum Interplanetary Trajectory Software https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.10220 May 20, 2022 updates Internal structures and magnetic moments of rocky planets – Application to the first exoplanets discovered by TESS https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/05/aa42781-21/aa42781-21.html Extraterrestrial artificial photosynthesis https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S254243512200188X Alien suns reversing in exoplanet skies https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-11527-8 A general stability-driven approach for the refinement of multi-planet systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.09319 A CHEOPS Search for Massive, Long-Period Companions to the Warm Jupiter K2-139 b https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.09355 Pandora: A fast open-source exomoon transit detection algorithm https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.09410 The TESS Grand Unified Hot Jupiter Survey. 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Ten TESS Planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.09728 May 19, 2022 Updates Detection of CO emission lines in the dayside atmospheres of WASP-33b and WASP-189b with GIANO https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/05/aa43503-22/aa43503-22.html Periodic orbits in the 1:2:3 resonant chain and their impact on the orbital dynamics of the Kepler-51 planetary system https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/05/aa42953-21/aa42953-21.html A Multiplanet System’s Sole Super-puff: Exploring Allowable Physical Parameters for the Cold Super-puff HIP 41378 f https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac6353 Engineers Investigating NASA’s Voyager 1 Telemetry Data https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/engineers-investigating-nasas-voyager-1-telemetry-data Weak evidence for variable occultation depth of 55 Cnc e with TESS https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.08560 Internet of Spacecraft for Multi-planetary Defense and Prosperity https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.08567 Space Weather-driven Variations in Lyα Absorption Signatures of Exoplanet Atmospheric Escape: MHD Simulations and the Case of AU Mic b https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.08900 HD 28109 hosts a trio of transiting Neptunian planets including a near-resonant pair, confirmed by ASTEP from Antarctica https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.09046 May 18, 2022 updates The Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) on the James Webb Space Telescope – IV. Capabilities and predicted performance for exoplanet characterization https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/05/aa42592-21/aa42592-21.html Origins of Chiral Life in Interstellar Molecular Clouds https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac63d0 Development of a rotational shearing interferometer for detection of (habitable) exoplanets https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/12170/2604053/Development-of-a-rotational-shearing-interferometer-for-detection-of-habitable/10.1117/12.2604053.short The Futility of Exoplanet Biosignatures https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.07921 Impact of Economic Constraints on the Projected Timeframe for Human-Crewed Deep Space Exploration https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.08061 The Great Planetary Heist: Theft and capture in star-forming regions https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.07895 May 17, 2022 updates AbSciCon 2022: From Stars to Cells https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/abscicon-2022-open-public-events/ Nexus for Exoplanet System Science https://nexss.info/ Network for Life Detection https://www.nfold.org/ Request for Information: Early Cells to Multicellularity https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/request-for-information-early-cells-to-multicellularity/ Searching for the origin of the Ehrenreich effect in ultra-hot Jupiters – Evidence for strong C/O gradients in the atmosphere of WASP-76 b? https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/05/aa42591-21/aa42591-21.html HD 83443c: A Highly Eccentric Giant Planet on a 22 yr Orbit https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac6589 Water UV-shielding in the Terrestrial Planet-forming Zone: Implications from Water Emission https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ac66ce Resolving the Multiplicity of Exoplanet Host Stars in Gemini/NIRI Data https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.06899 To Sample or Not To Sample: Retrieving Exoplanetary Spectra with Variational Inference and Normalising Flows https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.07037 Transfer of Rocks between Planetary Systems: Panspermia Revisited https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.07799 The Visual Survey Group: A Decade of Hunting Exoplanets and Unusual Stellar Events with Space-Based Telescopes https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.07832 Patchy nightside clouds on ultra-hot Jupiters: General Circulation Model simulations with radiatively active cloud tracers https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.07834 Five key exoplanet questions answered via the analysis of 25 hot Jupiter atmospheres in eclipse https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.11729 1 2 … 220 Next →
May 23, 2022 Updates Intergalactic Travel With MOND Rockets https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/MOND_arXiv.pdf The 2821 Star Southern Hemisphere Optical SETI Survey: An Archival Search for Candidate Laser Signals in ESO’s HARPS Spectroscope Database https://digitalrepository.wheatoncollege.edu/handle/11040/32536 Internal structures and magnetic moments of rocky planets Application to the first exoplanets discovered by TESS https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/05/aa42781-21/aa42781-21.html Do tides destabilize Trojan exoplanets? https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103522001968 The unpopular Package: A Data-driven Approach to Detrending TESS Full-frame Image Light Curves https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac625a Earth as a Proxy Exoplanet: Simulating DSCOVR/EPIC Observations Using the Earth Spectrum Simulator https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac5e2e The Detection of Transiting Exoplanets by Gaia https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.10197 A giant planet shaping the disk around the very low mass star CIDA 1 https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.10219 Intermediate Points for Missions to Interstellar Objects Using Optimum Interplanetary Trajectory Software https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.10220
May 20, 2022 updates Internal structures and magnetic moments of rocky planets – Application to the first exoplanets discovered by TESS https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/05/aa42781-21/aa42781-21.html Extraterrestrial artificial photosynthesis https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S254243512200188X Alien suns reversing in exoplanet skies https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-11527-8 A general stability-driven approach for the refinement of multi-planet systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.09319 A CHEOPS Search for Massive, Long-Period Companions to the Warm Jupiter K2-139 b https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.09355 Pandora: A fast open-source exomoon transit detection algorithm https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.09410 The TESS Grand Unified Hot Jupiter Survey. I. Ten TESS Planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.09728
May 19, 2022 Updates Detection of CO emission lines in the dayside atmospheres of WASP-33b and WASP-189b with GIANO https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/05/aa43503-22/aa43503-22.html Periodic orbits in the 1:2:3 resonant chain and their impact on the orbital dynamics of the Kepler-51 planetary system https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/05/aa42953-21/aa42953-21.html A Multiplanet System’s Sole Super-puff: Exploring Allowable Physical Parameters for the Cold Super-puff HIP 41378 f https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac6353 Engineers Investigating NASA’s Voyager 1 Telemetry Data https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/engineers-investigating-nasas-voyager-1-telemetry-data Weak evidence for variable occultation depth of 55 Cnc e with TESS https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.08560 Internet of Spacecraft for Multi-planetary Defense and Prosperity https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.08567 Space Weather-driven Variations in Lyα Absorption Signatures of Exoplanet Atmospheric Escape: MHD Simulations and the Case of AU Mic b https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.08900 HD 28109 hosts a trio of transiting Neptunian planets including a near-resonant pair, confirmed by ASTEP from Antarctica https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.09046
May 18, 2022 updates The Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) on the James Webb Space Telescope – IV. Capabilities and predicted performance for exoplanet characterization https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/05/aa42592-21/aa42592-21.html Origins of Chiral Life in Interstellar Molecular Clouds https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac63d0 Development of a rotational shearing interferometer for detection of (habitable) exoplanets https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/12170/2604053/Development-of-a-rotational-shearing-interferometer-for-detection-of-habitable/10.1117/12.2604053.short The Futility of Exoplanet Biosignatures https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.07921 Impact of Economic Constraints on the Projected Timeframe for Human-Crewed Deep Space Exploration https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.08061 The Great Planetary Heist: Theft and capture in star-forming regions https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.07895
May 17, 2022 updates AbSciCon 2022: From Stars to Cells https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/abscicon-2022-open-public-events/ Nexus for Exoplanet System Science https://nexss.info/ Network for Life Detection https://www.nfold.org/ Request for Information: Early Cells to Multicellularity https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/request-for-information-early-cells-to-multicellularity/ Searching for the origin of the Ehrenreich effect in ultra-hot Jupiters – Evidence for strong C/O gradients in the atmosphere of WASP-76 b? https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/05/aa42591-21/aa42591-21.html HD 83443c: A Highly Eccentric Giant Planet on a 22 yr Orbit https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac6589 Water UV-shielding in the Terrestrial Planet-forming Zone: Implications from Water Emission https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ac66ce Resolving the Multiplicity of Exoplanet Host Stars in Gemini/NIRI Data https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.06899 To Sample or Not To Sample: Retrieving Exoplanetary Spectra with Variational Inference and Normalising Flows https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.07037 Transfer of Rocks between Planetary Systems: Panspermia Revisited https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.07799 The Visual Survey Group: A Decade of Hunting Exoplanets and Unusual Stellar Events with Space-Based Telescopes https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.07832 Patchy nightside clouds on ultra-hot Jupiters: General Circulation Model simulations with radiatively active cloud tracers https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.07834 Five key exoplanet questions answered via the analysis of 25 hot Jupiter atmospheres in eclipse https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.11729
