Direct Measurement of Radiation Pressure Forces on Membrane Lightsails
https://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR24/Session/Y05.9
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December 25, 2023 updates
Analysis of the Use of Different Backing Layer Materials in the Design of Alpha-Decay Sails for Interplanetary and Interstellar Travel
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00295639.2023.2278931
The impact of spectral line wing cut-off: Recommended standard method with application to MAESTRO opacity database
https://academic.oup.com/rasti/advance-article/doi/10.1093/rasti/rzad058/7492803
December 22, 2023 updates
Tidal Dissipation in Stably Stratified and Semiconvective Regions of Rotating Giant Planets: Incorporating Coriolis Forces
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad0a90
Degenerate Interpretations of O 3 Spectral Features in Exoplanet Atmosphere Observations Due to Stellar UV Uncertainties: A 3D Case Study with TRAPPIST-1 e
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad0381
Retrograde Ring Formed Around Eccentric Extrasolar Giant Planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.13786
High-Resolution Imaging of a TESS Control Sample: Verifying a Deficit of Close-In Stellar Companions to Exoplanet Host Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.14094
December 21, 2023 updates
Nanophotonic designs for light-driven propulsion and space exploration
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1d88x3gf
Unraveling the complex inventory of biorelevant organics in the plumes of icy moons
https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2319167120
Exoplanet Radio Emission Detection: Principles and Approaches
https://drpress.org/ojs/index.php/HSET/article/view/12901
Reflection from Inclined, Relativistic Light Sails
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad10b0
Coupled atmospheric chemistry, radiation, and dynamics of an exoplanet generate self-sustained oscillations
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2309312120
The Rossiter-McLaughlin effect and exoplanet transits: A delicate association at medium and low spectral resolution
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.12976
A Combined Ground-based and JWST Atmospheric Retrieval Analysis: Both IGRINS and NIRSpec Agree The Atmosphere of WASP-77A b is Metal-Poor
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.13069
December 20, 2023 updates
Development of Solar Sail for Interstellar Exploration
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-38446-2_22
Astrophysicists publish Kepler Giant Planet Search, an aid to ‘figure out where to find life’
https://phys.org/news/2023-12-astrophysicists-publish-kepler-giant-planet.html
Parameterizing pressure–temperature profiles of exoplanet atmospheres with neural networks
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/01/aa46390-23/aa46390-23.html
Bayesian Analysis for Remote Biosignature Identification on exoEarths (BARBIE). II. Using Grid-based Nested Sampling in Coronagraphy Observation Simulations for O2 and O3
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad0fde
Geochemical and Photochemical Constraints on S[IV] Concentrations in Natural Waters on Prebiotic Earth
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023AV000926
The flipped orbit of KELT-19Ab inferred from the symmetric TESS transit light curves
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.11815
The distribution of impactor core material during large impacts on Earth-like planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.12132
Free-floating or wide-orbit? Keck adaptive-optics observations of free-floating planet candidates detected with gravitational microlensing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.04610