Interstellar Updates

Breakthrough Discuss 2021: Alpha Centauri System: A Beckoning Neighbor
https://youtu.be/qpewt9qEYXw

Breakthrough Discuss 2021: Yuri’s Night
https://youtu.be/Q3lP65PLaJA

Hunting Exoplanets Using Transit Method With Convolution Neural Networks
https://irjmets.com/rootaccess/forms/uploads/IRJMETS672856.pdf

Pushing planets into an inner cavity by a resonant chain
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2021/04/aa38772-20/aa38772-20.html

Relativistic modeling of atmospheric occultations with time transfer functions
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2021/04/aa40269-20/aa40269-20.html

Oxygen False Positives on Habitable Zone Planets Around Sun‐Like Stars
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020AV000294

Ariel: Enabling planetary science across light-years
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.04824

A Stellar Activity F-statistic for Exoplanet Surveys (SAFE)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.04887

Tides in the high-eccentricity migration of hot Jupiters: Triggering diffusive growth by nonlinear mode interactions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.04929

3D convection-resolving model of temperate, tidally-locked exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.05559

Hot planets around cool stars — two short-period mini-Neptunes transiting the late K-dwarf TOI-1260
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.05653

Surface biosignatures of exo-Earths: Remote detection of extraterrestrial life
https://www.pnas.org/content/112/13/3886

Exploiting Kepler’s Heritage: A Transfer Learning Approach for Identifying Exoplanets’ Transits in TESS Data
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/abf56b

ACCESS: An optical transmission spectrum of the high-gravity, hot Jupiter HAT-P-23b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.04101

Catalogue of exoplanets accessible in reflected starlight to the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. A population study and prospects for phase-curve measurements
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.04296

Revision of “Dependence of climate states of gray atmosphere on solar constant: From the runaway greenhouse to the snowball states” by Ishiwatari et al. (2007)
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2019JD031761

Discovery of the First Interstellar Comet and the Spatial Density of Interstellar Objects in the Solar Neighborhood
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134%2FS0038094621020027

Extending a grid of hydrodynamic planetary upper atmosphere models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.03796

The Trouble with “Puddle Thinking”: A User’s Guide to the Anthropic Principle
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.03381

Irradiance Variations of the Sun and Sun-Like Stars – Overview of Topical Collection
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11207-021-01802-8

Five carbon- and nitrogen-bearing species in a hot giant planet’s atmosphere
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03381-x

Transit Analysis of HATS-4 b by Citizen Scientists
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/abf496

Quantifying the Classification of Exoplanets: in Search for the Right Habitability Metric
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.02991

RAFTER: Ring Astrometric Field Telescope for Exo-planets and Relativity
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.03003

A transit timing variation observed for the long-period extremely low density exoplanet HIP 41378
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.03159

A search for a fifth planet around HR 8799 using the star-hopping RDI technique at VLT/SPHERE
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2021/04/aa38794-20/aa38794-20.html

Wide-orbit exoplanets are common. Analysis of nearly 20 years of OGLE microlensing survey data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.02079

OGLE-2018-BLG-1185b : A Low-Mass Microlensing Planet Orbiting a Low-Mass Dwarf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.02157

Significant improvement in planetary system simulations from statistical averaging
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.02179

Large density deficit of Earth’s core revealed by a multi-megabar primary pressure scale
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.02076