Interstellar Updates

Framework for Expediting Discovery of Optimal Solutions with Blackbox Algorithms in Non-Topology Photonic Inverse Design
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsphotonics.1c01819

A Search for Pre-Transit Absorption Features in Spectra of Hot Jupiters
https://ediss.sub.uni-hamburg.de/handle/ediss/9447

The crewed journey to Mars and its implications for the human microbiome
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40168-021-01222-7

Assessing planetary complexity and potential agnostic biosignatures using epsilon machines
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-021-01559-x

The Cosmic Significance of Directed Panspermia: Should Humanity Spread Life to Other Solar Systems?
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/utilitas/article/cosmic-significance-of-directed-panspermia-should-humanity-spread-life-to-other-solar-systems/93E21369EDF7598A5D312889728AB5D0

Intelligence as a planetary scale process
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/intelligence-as-a-planetary-scale-process/5077C784D7FAC55F96072F7A7772C5E5

Venusian phosphine: a ‘wow!’ signal in chemistry?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/org/science/article/pii/S1042650722011017

Mass Production of 2021 KMTNet Microlensing Planets I
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.03022

The Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) on the James Webb Space Telescope IV. Capabilities and predicted performance for exoplanet characterization
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.03309

A Search for Technosignatures toward the Galactic Centre at 150 MHz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.03324

TESS Transit Timing of Hundreds of Hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.03401

The Cosmic Hitchhikers Hypothesis: Extraterrestrial Civilizations Using Free-Floating Planets for Interstellar Colonization
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.03364

Editor’s note: A high-energy view of exoplanets and their environments
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.20220005

Direct emission spectroscopy of exoplanets with the medium resolution imaging spectrometer on board JWST MIRI
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2022/02/aa41663-21/aa41663-21.html

Low-Power Laser Sailing for Fast-Transit Space Flight
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c04188

Systematic modeling of electrostatic radiation shields for deep space flight
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0969806X22000494

Stellar Companions to TESS Objects of Interest: A Test of Planet-Companion Alignment
https://arxiv.org/list/astro-ph/new

Searching for the origin of the Ehrenreich effect in ultra-hot Jupiters: Evidence for strong C/O gradients in the atmosphere of WASP-76b?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.02041

Detection of two additional circumbinary planets around Kepler-451
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.02118

Escaping Helium from TOI 560.01, a Young Mini Neptune
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.13150

The Investigation of the Dynamical Evolution of Extrasolar Three-planetary System GJ 3138
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1674-4527/ac32b5

A transiting, temperate mini-Neptune orbiting the M dwarf TOI-1759 unveiled by TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.01240

TOI-1759 b: a transiting sub-Neptune around a low mass star characterized with SPIRou and TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.01259

Asteroids and life: How special is the solar system?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.01352

Microphysics of Water Clouds in the Atmospheres of Y Dwarfs and Temperate Giant Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.01355

Identifying the Unidentified: Seeking Extraterrestrial Equipment Near Earth
https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/Loeb_UAP_Debrief.pdf

Relevance of Earth-Bound Extremophiles in the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2021.0033

Hierarchical Bayesian Atmospheric Retrieval Modeling for Population Studies of Exoplanet Atmospheres: A Case Study on the Habitable Zone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.00701

Discovery and mass measurement of the hot, transiting, Earth-sized planet GJ 3929 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.00970

Investigating the detectability of hydrocarbons in exoplanet atmospheres with JWST
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.01151

Ultrahigh-Pressure Magnesium Hydrosilicates as Reservoirs of Water in Early Earth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.00752

Large planets may not form fractionally large moons
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-28063-8

Direct emission spectroscopy of exoplanets with the medium resolution imaging spectrometer on board JWST MIRI – I. Molecular mapping and sensitivity to instrumental effects
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2022/02/aa41663-21/aa41663-21.html

On Spectroscopic Phase-curve Retrievals: H2 Dissociation and Thermal Inversion in the Atmosphere of the Ultrahot Jupiter WASP-103 b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac4475

Hugoniot and released state of calcite above 200 GPa with implications for hypervelocity planetary impacts
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103522000239

X-exoplanets coronal models and planet photoevaporation
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.20220008

Orbital Architectures of Planet-Hosting Binaries II. Low Mutual Inclinations Between Planetary and Stellar Orbits
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.00013

Exoplanet Characterization using Conditional Invertible Neural Networks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.00027

A Possible Alignment Between the Orbits of Planetary Systems and their Visual Binary Companions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.00042