Interstellar Updates

Warm terrestrial planet with half the mass of Venus transiting a nearby star
https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202140728

Giant white-light flares on fully convective stars occur at high latitudes
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab2159/6339287

Habitable zones with an earth climate history model
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0032063321001574

Tidally distorted barytropes and their Roche limits, with application to WASP-12b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.01675

A Comparative Study of Atmospheric Chemistry with VULCAN
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.01790

Intelligent Responses to Our Technological Signals Will Not Arrive In Fewer Than Three Millennia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.01690

Avoiding the “Great Filter”: A Projected Timeframe for Human Expansion Off-World
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.01730

Solar sail with superconducting circular current-carrying wire
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.01686

The Alien Communication Handbook
https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030748449

Space and Society
https://www.springer.com/series/11929

Understanding the Diversity of Planetary Atmospheres
https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789402421255

Dynamics of Colombo’s Top: Tidal Dissipation and Resonance Capture, With Applications to Oblique Super-Earths, Ultra-Short-Period Planets and Inspiraling Hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.01082

Search for Galactic Civilizations Using Historical Supernovae
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.01173

Prospects for detecting exoplanets around double white dwarfs with LISA and Taiji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.01357

Worldline numerics applied to custom Casimir geometry generates unanticipated intersection with Alcubierre warp metric
https://epjc.epj.org/articles/epjc/abs/2021/07/10052_2021_Article_9484/10052_2021_Article_9484.html

Filling the Vacuum: Adapting International Space Law to Meet the Pressures Created by Private Space Enterprises
https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/denilp49&div=4

Applying Multilogical and Metamemetic Approaches to Understand How We Think and Feel in Space
https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation.aspx?paperid=110962

Modeling and Stability of a Laser Beam-Driven Sail
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9482685

Optimized modeling of Gaia-Hipparcos astrometry for the detection of the smallest cold Jupiter and confirmation of seven low mass companions
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab2225/6338119

The emergence of a summer hemisphere jet in planetary atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.00457

A Machine-Learning-Based Direction-of-Origin Filter for the Identification of Radio Frequency Interference in the Search for Technosignatures
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.00559

Synthetic Evolution Tracks of Giant Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.00949

Electrodynamic Tethers For Deep Space Missions
https://repository.tudelft.nl/islandora/object/uuid:72eae2d2-d25a-41d9-a9c8-3e0a1c294d49

Chronos – take the pulse of our galactic neighbourhood
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10686-021-09733-9

Magnetic Deflection of a Low-Temperature Plasma Jet for a Magnetic Nozzle for Pulsed Fission-Fusion Engine
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2021-3609

Transit origami: A method to Coherently fold exomoon transits in time series photometry
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab2013/6335487

Nondetection of Helium in the Upper Atmospheres of TRAPPIST-1b, e, and f
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac00ac

Future Space Missions and Human Enhancement: Medical and Ethical Challenges
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016328721001270

Focused Penetrative Plumes: A Possible Consequence of the Dissociation Transition of Post-Perovskite at ∼0.9 TPa in Massive Rocky Super-Earths
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021GC009910

The Emission Spectrum of the Hot Jupiter WASP-79b from HST/WFC3
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.14334

Lessons learned from SPHERE for the astrometric strategy of the next generation of exoplanet imaging instruments
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.14341

Imaging low-mass planets within the habitable zones of nearby stars with ground-based mid-infrared imaging
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.14378

Asymmetry and Variability in the Transmission Spectra of Tidally Locked Habitable Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.14603

Follow-up of non-transiting planets detected by Kepler. Confirmation of three hot-Jupiters and validation of three other planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.14621

A Second Planet Transiting LTT~1445A and a Determination of the Masses of Both Worlds
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.14737

Partially Diffusive Helium-Silica Compound in the Deep Interiors of Giant Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.14416

Continued development of the pulsed magnetic nozzle for the Pulsed Fission Fusion (PuFF) vehicle
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2021-3608

Experimental Validation Testing of a Paired-Particle Matter/Anti-Matter Propulsion System, with Proposed Project Management
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2021-3251

Numerical Optimization of Warp Drive Geometries
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2021-3596

Planetary migration in precessing disks for S-type wide binaries
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab2059/6330471

A HARPS-N mass for the elusive Kepler-37d: a case study in disentangling stellar activity and planetary signals
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.13900

Speckle Observations of TESS Exoplanet Host Stars. II. Stellar Companions at 1–1000 au and Implications for Small Planet Detection
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac0d06

Transmission Spectroscopy of the Earth–Sun System to Inform the Search for Extrasolar Life
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.13652

Interstellar Communications
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9438311

HD 183579b: A Warm Sub-Neptune Transiting a Solar Twin Detected by TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.14015

A large sub-Neptune transiting the thick-disk M4V TOI-2406
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.14125

Beyond runaway: initiation of the post-runaway greenhouse state on rocky exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.14150

ESA F-Class Comet Interceptor: Trajectory Design to Intercept a Yet-to-be-discovered Comet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.12999

TOI-532b: The Habitable-zone Planet Finder confirms a Large Super Neptune in the Neptune Desert orbiting a metal-rich M dwarf host
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.13670

Detectable Abundance of Cyanoacetylene (HC3N) Predicted on Reduced Nitrogen-Rich Super-Earth Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.13097