Efficiently combining Alpha CenA multi-epoch high-contrast imaging data. Application of K-Stacker to the 80 hrs NEAR campaign
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.02137
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July 5, 2022 updates
Drake’s Equation and Fermi’s Paradox,Logic Behind the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
http://comenius.susqu.edu/hons/250/weekly_assignments/paths%20of%20science%20revisions/paths-of-science-2/drake%20equation%20and%20fermi’s%20paradox.pdf
Trajectory Analysis and Optimization of Hesperides Mission
https://www.mdpi.com/2218-1997/8/7/364
Initial Components and Abiogenic Homochiral Organic Synthesis Ere the Origin of Life
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Vladimir-Zhmakin/publication/361443579_Initial_Components_and_Abiogenic_Homochiral_Organic_Synthesis_Ere_the_Origin_of_Life/links/62b1d3c6d49f803365ae4d5c/Initial-Components-and-Abiogenic-Homochiral-Organic-Synthesis-Ere-the-Origin-of-Life.pdf
Prebiotic Chemistry and Life’s Origin
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/ebook/978-1-78801-749-7
Precise astrometry: Earth Analogs and Beyond
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10686-022-09860-x
Detecting exoplanets with the false inclusion probability – Comparison with other detection criteria in the context of radial velocities
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/07/aa40543-21/aa40543-21.html
Climate Outcomes of Earth-similar Worlds as a Function of Obliquity and Rotation Rate
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac6951
The Volatile Carbon-to-oxygen Ratio as a Tracer for the Formation Locations of Interstellar Comets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ac75b5
False positives and the challenge of testing the alien hypothesis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.00634
Searching for Transit Timing Variations and Fitting a New Ephemeris to Transits of TrES-1 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.01559
A new method to correct for host star variability in multi-epoch observations of exoplanet transmission spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.01606
July 4, 2022 Updates
Technological Evolution of Extraterrestrial Civilizations: Dyson
Spheres, Warp Drives, Energy Capturing Conquerors
http://journalofastrobiology.com/Extraterrestrial1.pdf
Extraterrestrial Intelligence: A Cognitive Evolutionary Perspective
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358629839_Extraterrestrial_Intelligence_A_Cognitive_Evolutionary_Perspective
Implications of Brain Evolution in Cetaceans and Primates for Highly
Intelligent Extraterrestrial Life
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358518729_Implications_of_Brain_Evolution_in_Cetaceans_and_Primates_for_Highly_Intelligent_Extraterrestrial_Life
An Update on the Future Flyby of Gliese 710 to the Solar System Using Gaia DR3: Flyby Parameters Reproduced, Uncertainties Reduced
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ac7b95
Mantle mineralogy limits to rocky planet water inventories
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.00014
Stratospheric Clouds Do Not Impede JWST Transit Spectroscopy for Exoplanets with Earth-Like Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.00015
NEOSSat Observations of Three Transiting Hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.00101
July 1, 2022 updates
A super-Earth orbiting near the inner edge of the habitable zone around the M4.5 dwarf Ross 508
https://academic.oup.com/pasj/advance-article/doi/10.1093/pasj/psac044/6623879
A Search for Radio Technosignatures at the Solar Gravitational Lens Targeting Alpha Centauri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.14807
June 30, 2022 updates
Inferring Late-stage Enrichment of Exoplanet Atmospheres from Observed Interstellar Comets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ac786e
Methanol—A Poor Biosignature Gas in Exoplanet Atmospheres
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac6f60
Impact of Lorentz violation models on exoplanets dynamics
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.14657
The impact of two non-transiting planets and stellar activity on mass determinations for the super-Earth CoRoT-7b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.14216
On the long-term stability of the Solar System in the presence of weak perturbations from stellar flybys
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.14240
The TESS-Keck Survey. XIII. An Eccentric Hot Neptune with a Similar-Mass Outer Companion around TOI-1272
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.14327
Tidal excitation of autoresonant oscillations in stars with close-by planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.14611
ESA-Ariel Data Challenge NeurIPS 2022: Introduction to exo-atmospheric studies and presentation of the Ariel Big Challenge (ABC) Database
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.14633
ESA-Ariel Data Challenge NeurIPS 2022: Inferring Physical Properties of Exoplanets From Next-Generation Telescopes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.14642