Interstellar Updates

A new configuration for high power propulsion plasmas driven by ion cyclotron resonance energization
https://aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/5.0073439

PyExoRaMa: An Interactive Tool in Python to Investigate the Radius–Mass Diagram for Exoplanets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ac52f2

Photons Received: Webb Sees Its First Star – 18 Times
https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/02/11/photons-received-webb-sees-its-first-star-18-times/

Relentless and Complex Transits from a Planetesimal Debris Disk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.06183

Voyager 3: A Concept Mission to Interstellar Medium
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.A35075

Transit Timing Variations for AU Microscopii b & c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.05813

Voyager 3: A Concept Mission to Interstellar Medium
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.A35075

Relentless and Complex Transits from a Planetesimal Debris Disk
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/511/2/1647/6524236

HATS-74Ab, HATS-75b, HATS-76b, and HATS-77b: Four Transiting Giant Planets Around K and M Dwarfs
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac4a77

Observability of Evaporating Lava Worlds
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.04759

A candidate short-period sub-Earth orbiting Proxima Centauri
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/02/aa42337-21/aa42337-21.html

Probing Kepler’s hottest small planets via homogeneous search and analysis of optical secondary eclipses and phase variations
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2022/02/aa39037-20/aa39037-20.html

The GAPS Programme at TNG – XXXII. The revealing non-detection of metastable He I in the atmosphere of the hot Jupiter WASP-80b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2022/02/aa42336-21/aa42336-21.html

TESS Giants Transiting Giants. II. The Hottest Jupiters Orbiting Evolved Stars
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac4972

PyExoRaMa: An Interactive Tool in Python to Investigate the Radius–Mass Diagram for Exoplanets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ac52f2

A glint in the eye: Photographic plate archive searches for non-terrestrial artefacts
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576522000480

Assessing the potential for liquid solvents from X-ray sources: considerations on bodies orbiting AGN
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.04562

Integrated Molar Absorptivity of Mid- and Far-Infrared Spectra of Alanine and a Selection of Other Five Amino Acids of Astrobiological Relevance
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2021.0094

A retrieval challenge exercise for the Ariel mission
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10686-021-09821-w

Comprehensive analysis of TESS Full Orbital Phase Curve of WASP-121b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.03504

Predicting the Exoplanet Yield of the TESS Prime and Extended Missions Through Years 1-7
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.03656

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