Interstellar Updates

The Worlds Next Door: Looking for Habitable Planets Around Alpha Centauri
https://breakthroughinitiatives.org/news/34

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Primed to Lift the Haze Surrounding Sub-Neptunes
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/nasa-james-webb-space-telescope-primed-to-lift-the-haze-surrounding-sub-neptunes

On the Use of Evidence and Goodness-of-fit Metrics in Exoplanet Atmosphere Interpretation
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ac3984

Automatically detecting anomalous exoplanet transits
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.08679

Dynamics and habitability of the TESS circumbinary systems TOI-1338 and TIC-172900988
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.08235

The tidal quality of the hot Jupiter WASP-12b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.08273

WASP-47: A Hot Jupiter System with Two Additional Planets Discovered by K2
https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.02411

Developing An Interferometric SETI Capability Using e-MERLIN
https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/developing-an-interferometric-seti-capability-using-emerlin(3fa9a27f-9b3d-4b17-8cd6-c519d4f4ab29).html

Exoplanet biosignatures
https://academic.oup.com/astrogeo/article-abstract/62/6/6.26/6428181

No Sub-Saturn-mass Planet Desert in the CORALIE/HARPS Radial-velocity Sample
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac2a2b

A General Origin for Multiplanetary Systems With Significantly Misaligned USP Planets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac2a32

The Fishback ramjet revisited
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576521005804

Stellar rotation and its connection to the evolution of hydrogen-dominated atmospheres of exoplanets
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.20210077

Effects of flares on the habitable zones of M dwarfs accessible to TESS planet detections
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.20210079

Characterization of an Instrument Model for Exoplanet Transit Spectrum Estimation through Wide Scale Analysis on HST Data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.07214

How does the background atmosphere affect the onset of the runaway greenhouse ?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.07662

Research Programs Arising from ‘Oumuamua Considered as an Alien Craft
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.07895

How to create an artificial magnetosphere for Mars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.06887

Crystalline ices – Densities and comparisons for planetary and interstellar applications
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103521004462

A comprehensive review of Electric Solar Wind Sail concept and its applications
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0376042121000683

The Obliquity of HIP 67522 b: A 17 Myr Old Transiting Hot, Jupiter-sized Planet
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ac3485

From Pebbles and Planetesimals to Planets and Dust: the Protoplanetary Disk–Debris Disk Connection
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.06406

Inferring Shallow Surfaces on sub-Neptune Exoplanets with JWST
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.06429

Transit Timing Variation of XO-3b: Evidence for Tidal Evolution of Hot Jupiter with High Eccentricity
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.06551

Significant Transit Timing Offsets of 31 Hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.06678

Densified pupil spectrograph as high-precision radial velocimetry: From direct measurement of the Universe’s expansion history to characterization of nearby habitable planet candidates
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.06766

Alleviating the transit timing variation bias in transit surveys. I. RIVERS: Method and detection of a pair of resonant super-Earths around Kepler-1705
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.06825

Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) Observations of Flares and Quasi-Periodic Pulsations from Low-Mass Stars and Potential Impact on Exoplanets
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11207-021-01899-x

Atmospheric oxygenation of the early earth and earth-like planets driven by competition between land and seafloor weathering
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40623-021-01527-9

The fundamentals of Lyman-alpha exoplanet transits
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.06094

TRIDENT: A Rapid 3D Radiative Transfer Model for Exoplanet Transmission Spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.05862

14 Her: a likely case of planet-planet scattering
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.06004

Faint intermediate luminosity optical transients (ILOTs) from engulfing exoplanets on the Hertzsprung gap
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.06317

Analysis of the Breakthrough Listen signal of interest blc1 with a technosignature verification framework
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.06350

Habitability Is Binary, But It Is Used by Astrobiologists to Encompass Continuous Ecological Questions
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2021.0038

Irradiation-driven escape of primordial planetary atmospheres – I. The ATES photoionization hydrodynamics code
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2021/11/aa41497-21/aa41497-21.html

Contaminante: A Tool for Automatically Finding a Close-to-optimal Aperture for Transiting Signals in Kepler, K2, and TESS Data
https://iopscience.iop.org/issue/2515-5172/5/11

Vetting: A Stand-alone Tool for Finding Centroid Offsets in NASA Kepler, K2, and TESS, Alerting the Presence of Exoplanet False Positives
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ac376a

‘Oumuamua and Interstellar Travel
https://inference-review.com/letter/oumuamua-and-interstellar-travel

The New Astronomical Frontier of Interstellar Objects
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.05516

Search for an alien communication from the Solar System to a neighbor star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.05334

Probing the \textit{Kepler} hottest small planets via homogeneous search and analysis of optical secondary eclipses and phase variations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.05716