Interstellar Updates

Here’s Looking at You, MKID
https://www.news.ucsb.edu/2020/020103/here-s-looking-you-mkid

Precise radial velocities of giant stars – XIV. Evidence of planetary companions around HD 25723, 17 Sco, 3 Cnc, and 44 UMa
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/12/aa38285-20/aa38285-20.html

Europium as a lodestar: diagnosis of radiogenic heat production in terrestrial exoplanets – Spectroscopic determination of Eu abundances in α Centauri AB
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/12/aa38386-20/aa38386-20.html

Architectures of Exoplanetary Systems. III. Eccentricity and Mutual Inclination Distributions of AMD-stable Planetary Systems
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abba18

An Unusual Transmission Spectrum for the Sub-Saturn KELT-11b Suggestive of a Subsolar Water Abundance
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abc1e9

Is TiO emission present in the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-33b? A reassessment using the improved ExoMol Toto line list
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.10587

Refined Telluric Absorption Correction for Low-Resolution Ground-Based Spectroscopy: Resolution and Radial Velocity Effects in the O2 A-Band for Exoplanets and K I Emission Lines
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.10845

Application of the mixing length theory to assess the generation of melt in internally heated systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.11172

Peeking inside the Black Box: Interpreting Deep Learning Models for Exoplanet Atmospheric Retrievals
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.11284

TOI-519 b: a short-period substellar object around an M dwarf validated using multicolour photometry and phase curve analysis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.11458

Formation and dynamics of water clouds on temperate sub-Neptunes: the example of K2-18b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.11553

The Magellan-TESS Survey I: Survey Description and Mid-Survey Results
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.11560

The Timing of Evolutionary Transitions Suggests Intelligent Life Is Rare
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2019.2149

Spectropolarimetry of Primitive Phototrophs as Global Surface Biosignatures
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2020.2272

Gaia search for stellar companions of TESS Objects of Interest
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.202013825

Correcting the effect of stellar spots on ARIEL transmission spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.10085

Methane as a dominant absorber in the habitable-zone sub-Neptune K2-18 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.10424

Orbital evolution of potentially habitable planets of tidally interacting binary stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.10430

1D atmospheric study of the temperate sub-Neptune K2-18b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.10459

Evidence for chromium hydride in the atmosphere of Hot Jupiter WASP-31b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.10558

Vetting of 384 TESS Objects of Interest with TRICERATOPS and Statistical Validation of 12 Planet Candidates
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.00691

Near-infrared Opacity of Late M Dwarfs and Hot Jupiters: The E 3Π–X 3Δ Transition of TiO
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abc24c

JWST Transit Spectra. II. Constraining Aerosol Species, Particle-size Distributions, Temperature, and Metallicity for Cloudy Exoplanets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abbc6c

A Closer Look at Exoplanet Occurrence Rates: Considering the Multiplicity of Stars Without Detected Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.09564

Kozai Migration Naturally Explains the White Dwarf Planet WD1856 b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abc564

Survivor Bias: Divergent Fates of the Solar System’s Ejected versus Persisting Planetesimals
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abc55f

A collage of small planets from the Lick Carnegie Exoplanet Survey : Exploring the super-Earth and sub-Neptune mass regime
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.08867

The Probability that a Rocky Planet’s Composition Reflects its Host Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.08893

Eccentricity Driven Climate Effects in the Kepler-1649 System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.09074

Brightness modulations of our nearest terrestrial planet Venus reveal atmospheric super-rotation rather than surface features
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.09271

Oort cloud Ecology II: Extra-solar Oort clouds and the origin of asteroidal interlopers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.08257

Influence of a Galactic Gamma-Ray Burst on Ocean Plankton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.08433

Kepler-90: Giant transit-timing variations reveal a super-puff
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.08515

Hubble WFC3 Spectroscopy of the Habitable-zone Super-Earth LHS 1140 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.08815