Interstellar Updates

Spying and the Fermi Paradox
https://uapbridge.org/spying-and-the-fermi-paradox/

Thermal Emission and Confirmation of the Frigid White Dwarf Exoplanet WD 1856+534 b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/adc9ad

JAvaScript Multimodal INformation Explorer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.21393

The Challenges of Detecting Gases in Exoplanet Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.21788

Polka-dotted Stars: a Hierarchical Model for Mapping Stellar Surfaces Using Occultation Light Curves and the Case of TOI-3884
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.21852

Transit Timing and Duration Variations for the Discovery and Characterization of Exoplanets in the TESS era
https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.09849

Digital Discovery of Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors
https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.15.021012

Analysis of Exoplanet Habitability: Investigating Key Parameters and Environmental Influences
https://zenodo.org/records/15309145

Life by Chemical Evolution?
https://link.springer.com/book/9783662707517

Irradiated Atmospheres. II. Interplay between Scattering and Vertical-mixing-induced Energy Transport
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adc56b

Precise Near-infrared Occultation of WASP-19b with FourStar on Magellan
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/add154

Escaping Helium and a Highly Muted Spectrum Suggest a Metal-Enriched Atmosphere on Sub-Neptune GJ3090b from JWST Transit Spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.20428

Atmospheric C/O Ratios of Sub-Neptunes with Magma Oceans: Homemade rather than Inherited
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.20450

Planets Across Space and Time (PAST). VI. Age Dependence of the Occurrence and Architecture of Ultra-Short-Period Planet Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.20986

Two neighbours to the ultra-short-period Earth-sized planet K2-157 b in the warm Neptunian savanna
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.20999

Numerical simulations of the interaction between the stellar magnetic field and a planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09390

Perpetual Push Against Spacetime [Locomotive Constraints of Relativistic Space Travel]
https://www.academia.edu/128047008/Perpetual_Push_Against_Spacetime_Locomotive_Constraints_of_Relativistic_Space_Travel_

Detection of Exoplanets in Transit Light Curves with Conditional Flow Matching and XGBoost
https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/14/9/1738

The cosmochemistry of planetary systems
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41570-025-00711-9

Age dependence of the occurrence and architecture of ultra-short-period planet systems
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02539-1

Near-circular orbits for planets with Earth-like sizes and instellations around M and K dwarf stars
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02532-8

An astronomer explains the extraordinary evidence scientists need to claim discoveries like extraterrestrial life
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-astronomer-extraordinary-evidence-scientists-discoveries.html

In-depth characterization of the Kepler-10 three-planet system with HARPS-N radial velocities and Kepler transit timing variations
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/04/aa53026-24/aa53026-24.html

Closeby Habitable Exoplanet Survey (CHES). III. Retrieval of Planetary Masses in Binaries Using the N-body Model with Radial Velocity and Astrometry Synergy
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adc444

Biases from Missing a Small Planet in High Multiplicity Systems
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/adcba1

Peeking under the clouds: Is exoplanet imaging with the solar gravitational lens feasible?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.18630

Lightning activity on a tidally locked terrestrial exoplanet in storm-resolving simulations for a range of surface pressures
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.19883

A Search for Exoplanet Candidates in TESS 2-min Light Curves using Joint Bayesian Detection
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.18706

On the similarities between the Trojan Wave Packets as a Single Electron Life and the Planet in the habitable zone
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/391119528_On_the_similarities_between_the_Trojan_Wave_Packets_as_a_Single_Electron_Life_and_the_Planet_in_the_habitable_zone

A Next-Generation Exoplanet Atmospheric Retrieval Framework for Transmission Spectroscopy (NEXOTRANS): Comparative Characterization for WASP-39 b Using JWST NIRISS, NIRSpec PRISM, and MIRI Observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.18815

Thermodynamic constraints on the citric acid cycle and related reactions in ocean world interiors
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.19369

The Cosmic Shoreline Revisited: A Metric for Atmospheric Retention Informed by Hydrodynamic Escape
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.19872

Transforming Electromagnetic Tensor to Weyl Tensor for Curvature Drive
https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation?paperid=142132

Modeling Gravitational Lensing: Analyzing Light Deflection Through a Curved Atmospheric Layer
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/390992723_Modeling_Gravitational_Lensing_Analyzing_Light_Deflection_Through_a_Curved_Atmospheric_Layer

Escaping Gravity Without Fuel
https://avi-loeb.medium.com/escaping-gravity-without-fuel-bb4a22633aed

Computational modelling of water-fuelled Hall Effect Thrusters
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s44205-025-00124-2

The Spinor Universe: A Topological Model of Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry and Temporal Duality
https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202504.2118/v1

Strongest evidence yet of alien life
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0262407925006505

A transiting rocky super-Earth and a non-transiting sub-Neptune orbiting the M dwarf TOI-771
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.18223

Characterizing the Impact of Alfvén Wave Forcing in Interplanetary Space on the Distribution of near-Earth Solar Wind Speeds
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.18350

Life on the Edge: Using Planetary Context to Enhance Biosignatures and Avoid False Positives
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.18431

Aeronomy of the upper atmosphere of KELT-9 b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/04/aa53309-24/aa53309-24.html

Thermal Emission and Confirmation of the Frigid White Dwarf Exoplanet WD 1856+534b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.16982

On the similarities between the Trojan Wave Packets and the Planet in the habitable zone
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/391119528_On_the_similarities_between_the_Trojan_Wave_Packets_and_the_Planet_in_the_habitable_zone

The tidal heating of the exoplanet 55 Cnc e. The role of the orbital eccentricity
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.17585