Interstellar Updates

 

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October 26, 2021 updates

The Five Great Human Challenges to Make Space and Interstellar Travels
https://blogdefalcoforado.wordpress.com/2021/09/24/the-five-great-human-challenges-to-make-space-and-interstellar-travels/

Our Place in the Universe – II
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-80260-8

Directed Energy Accelerated Lightsails
https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-943018/v1

A radio technosignature search towards Proxima Centauri resulting in a signal of interest
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-021-01479-w

Analysis of the Breakthrough Listen signal of interest blc1 with a technosignature verification framework
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-021-01508-8

Ion-driven organic chemistry for Titan-like atmospheres: Implications for N-dominated super-Earth exoplanets
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2021/10/aa41328-21/aa41328-21.html

Comparison of the mass distributions of short-period exoplanets detected by transit and RV methods
https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnrasl/slab115/6409826

ExoFrontiers – Big questions in exoplanetary science
https://iopscience.iop.org/book/978-0-7503-1472-5

TESS-Keck Survey. V. Twin Sub-Neptunes Transiting the Nearby G Star HD 63935
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac18cb

The First Interstellar Astronauts Will Not Be Human
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.13080

The Search for Deliberate Interstellar SETI Signals May Be Futile
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.11502

A model Earth-sized planet in the habitable zone of α Centauri A/B
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.12565

The LHS 1678 System: Two Earth-Sized Transiting Planets and an Astrometric Companion Orbiting an M Dwarf Near the Convective Boundary at 20 pc
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.12079

Dynamical tidal Love numbers of rapidly rotating planets and stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.12129

October 25, 2021 Updates

The Alien Communication Handbook
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-74845-6

Zodiacal Exoplanets in Time (ZEIT) XII: A Directly-Imaged Planetary-Mass Companion to a Young Taurus M Dwarf Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.08655

In Search of Plan(et) B: Irrational Rationality, Capitalist Realism, and Space Colonization
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S001632872100166X

The effect of late giant collisions on the atmospheres of protoplanets and the formation of cold sub-Saturns
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab3008/6409157?redirectedFrom=fulltext

TESS Data for Asteroseismology (T’DA) Stellar Variability Classification Pipeline: Setup and Application to the Kepler Q9 Data
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac166a

Detection of OH in the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-76b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.11946

GRASS : Distinguishing Planet-induced Doppler Signatures from Granulation with a Synthetic Spectra Generator
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.11839

Physically-motivated basis functions for temperature maps of exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.11837

The Sonora Substellar Atmosphere Models. II. Cholla: A Grid of Cloud-free, Solar Metallicity Models in Chemical Disequilibrium for the JWST Era
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.11824

EOS: Atmospheric Radiative Transfer in Habitable Worlds with HELIOS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.11702

October 22, 2021 updates

A unique hot Jupiter spectral sequence with evidence for compositional diversity
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-021-01455-4

Investigation of Orbital Decay and Global Modeling of the Planet WASP-43 b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac1baf

TOI-2285b: A 1.7 Earth-radius Planet Near the Habitable Zone around a Nearby M Dwarf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.10215

Laser Communication with Proxima and Alpha Centauri using the Solar Gravitational Lens
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.10247

Moderately misaligned orbit of the warm sub-Saturn HD 332231 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.10282

EXPRES. III. Revealing the Stellar Activity Radial Velocity Signature of ε Eridani with Photometry and Interferometry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.10643

No Transits of Proxima Centauri Planets inHigh-Cadence TESS Data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.10702

General Circulation Model Errors are Variable across Exoclimate Parameter Spaces
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.10925

A unique hot Jupiter spectral sequence with evidence for compositional diversity
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.11272

Systematic KMTNet Planetary Anomaly Search, Paper II: Six New q<2×10−4 Mass-ratio Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.06686

October 21, 2021 updates

Carbon monoxide gas produced by a giant impact in the inner region of a young system
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03872-x

NEID Spectrometer Lights Up Path to Exoplanet Exploration
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/neid-spectrometer-lights-up-path-to-exoplanet-exploration

http://ngts.planethunters.org/
Planet Hunters Next-Generation Transit Search (NGTS)

Dust in brown dwarfs and extra-solar planets – VIII. TiO2 seed formation: 3D Monte Carlo versus kinetic approach
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2021/10/aa40378-21/aa40378-21.html

Nautilus: A Revolutionary Space Telescope
https://nautilus-array.space/

Alien Earths: Searching for Habitable Worlds in Nearby Planetary Systems
https://alienearths.space/

Project EDEN: The Search for and Study of Other Earth-like Planets
https://project-eden.space/

Enhanced thermal radiation from a tidally heated exomoon with a single hotspot
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab2955/6406511

A Phenomenological Approach to Searching for Earth Sized Exoplanets
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/355440015_A_Phenomenological_Approach_to_Searching_for_Earth_Sized_Exoplanets

Overview On The Prevalent Methods Used In Exoplanet Discovery
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/355442703_Overview_On_The_Prevalent_Methods_Used_In_Exoplanet_Discovery