Interstellar Updates

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs – Diagnostic capabilities of strong K I lines for photosphere and chromosphere
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2022/01/aa41733-21/aa41733-21.html

Propellant-free attitude control of solar sails with variable-shape mechanisms
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576521006883

Astronomers may have found a huge moon around a Jupiter-like exoplanet
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0262407922000859

Super-Earths have life-friendly shields
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0262407922000951

The Scorpion Planet Survey: Wide-orbit Giant Planets Around Young A-type Stars
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac409d

Prospects for water vapor detection in the atmospheres of temperate and arid rocky exoplanets around M-dwarf stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.08423

WASP-77 A b Formed Beyond Its Parent Protoplanetary Disk’s H2O Ice Line
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.08508

H2-dominated Atmosphere as an Indicator of Second-generation Rocky White Dwarf Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.08529

Detection of iron emission lines and a temperature inversion on the dayside of the ultra-hot Jupiter KELT-20b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.08759

Effects of UV stellar spectral uncertainty on the chemistry of terrestrial atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.08805

Rapid-then-slow migration reproduces mass distribution of TRAPPIST-1 system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.08840

Early planetary processes and light elements in iron-dominated cores
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11631-021-00522-x

TOI-1842b: A Transiting Warm Saturn Undergoing Reinflation around an Evolving Subgiant
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac3f39

A 20 Second Cadence View of Solar-type Stars and Their Planets with TESS: Asteroseismology of Solar Analogs and a Recharacterization of π Men c
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac3000

Isotope effects at the origin of life: Fingerprints of the Strecker synthesis
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0016703722000266

On the Shallowness of Circulation in Hot Jupiters — Advancing the Ohmic Dissipation Model
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.08209

Photochemical Runaway in Exoplanet Atmospheres: Implications for Biosignatures
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.08359

Planet populations inferred from debris discs: insights from 178 debris systems in the ISPY, LEECH and LIStEN planet-hunting surveys
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.08369

TESS Revisits WASP-12: Updated Orbital Decay Rate and Constraints on Atmospheric Variability
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.08370

A Scaling for Atmospheric Heat Redistribution on Tidally-Locked Rocky Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.13145

A Machine Learning–based Direction-of-origin Filter for the Identification of Radio Frequency Interference in the Search for Technosignatures
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac426f

The Fe-Si-C system at extreme P-T conditions: a possible core crystallization pathway for reduced planets
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0016703722000217

Effects of Charge Exchange on the Evaporative Wind of HD 209458b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.07337

A model for spin-orbit commensurability and synchronous starspot activity in stars with close-by planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.07481

Ariel mission planning. Scheduling the survey of a thousand exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.07491

Polarization of Rotationally Oblate Self-Luminous Exoplanets with Anisotropic Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.07613

Investigating the architecture and internal structure of the TOI-561 system planets with CHEOPS, HARPS-N and TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.07727

Mitigating stellar activity jitter with different line lists for least-squares deconvolution – Analysis of a parametric and a randomised line selection
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/01/aa41812-21/aa41812-21.html

Obstacles from interstellar matter and distortion for warp drive travel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.06371

A Material-based Panspermia Hypothesis: The Potential of Polymer Gels and Membraneless Droplets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.06732

Why hot Jupiters can be large but not too large
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.07008

Blue marble, stagnant lid: Could dynamic topography avert a waterworld?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.05636

CaRM: Exploring the chromatic Rossiter-McLaughlin effect. The cases of HD 189733b and WASP-127b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.06531

Building Terrestrial Planets: Why results of perfect-merging simulations are not quantitatively reliable approximations to accurate modeling of terrestrial planet formation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.06702

On the synergy between Ariel and ground-based high-resolution spectroscopy
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10686-021-09824-7

CORALIE radial-velocity search for companions around evolved stars (CASCADES) – I. Sample definition and first results: Three new planets orbiting giant stars
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2022/01/aa40078-20/aa40078-20.html

CORALIE radial-velocity search for companions around evolved stars (CASCADES) – III. A new Jupiter host-star: in-depth analysis of HD 29399 using TESS data
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2022/01/aa40080-20/aa40080-20.html

The strange case of Na I in the atmosphere of HD 209458 b – Reconciling low- and high-resolution spectroscopic observations
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2022/01/aa41642-21/aa41642-21.html

Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial Life and Beyond: An Interview with Douglas Lin
https://academic.oup.com/nsr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/nsr/nwac008/6509500

Effects of charge exchange on the evaporative wind of HD 209458b
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac112/6509496

Running the gauntlet – survival of small circumbinary planets migrating through destabilising resonances
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac090/6509505