Interstellar Updates

Beyond the rocket: A minireview of propellantless propulsion technologies and concepts
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/382082373_Beyond_the_rocket_A_minireview_of_propellantless_propulsion_technologies_and_concepts

Building Identity and Community for Early Career Professionals in the Emerging Field of Astrobiology
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2023.0066

Space Medicine and AI: Past, Present, Future
https://bis-space.com/shop/product/jbis-077-02-0067/

Toward Robust Corrections for Stellar Contamination in JWST Exoplanet Transmission Spectra
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad5833

TESS Giants Transiting Giants. VI. Newly Discovered Hot Jupiters Provide Evidence for Efficient Obliquity Damping after the Main Sequence
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad543b

Free-floating Planets, Survivor Planets, Captured Planets, and Binary Planets from Stellar Flybys
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad4f81

Doomed Worlds. I. No New Evidence for Orbital Decay in a Long-term Survey of 43 Ultrahot Jupiters
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ad3e80

No reason to colonize the whole galaxy
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576524003990

Experimental microarcsecond pointing for coronagraphic exoplanet imaging using robust least mean squares: Control design and hardware testbed results
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0888327024006241

JWST reveals a rapid and strong day side variability of 55 Cancri e
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12898

Modeling the Solar System as an Observed Multi-Transit System I: Characterization Limits from Analytic Timing Variations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.13154

Evidence for Nightside Water Emission Found in Transit of Ultrahot Jupiter WASP-33b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.13388

A common law for the differential rotation of planets and stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.13484

Colorado Ultraviolet Transit Experiment Near-Ultraviolet Transmission Spectroscopy of the Ultra-hot Jupiter KELT-9b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.13656

Challenge of direct imaging of exoplanets within structures: disentangling real signal from point source from background light
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.13756

A hot-Jupiter progenitor on a super-eccentric retrograde orbit
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07688-3

Atomic‐Scale Study of Intercrystalline (Mg,Fe)O in Planetary Mantles: Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Grain Boundaries Under Pressure
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023JB028375

Clumped Isotope Signatures of Abiotic Methane: The Role of the Combinatorial Isotope Effect
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023JB028194

New insights into the internal structure of GJ 1214 b informed by JWST
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12079

Westward hotspot offset explained by subcritical dynamo action in an ultra-hot Jupiter atmosphere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12434

Seasonal Changes in the Atmosphere of HD 80606b Observed with JWST’s NIRSpec/G395H
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12456

The GAPS programme at TNG – LVII. TOI-5076b: A warm sub-Neptune planet orbiting a thin-to-thick-disk transition star in a wide binary system
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/07/aa49082-23/aa49082-23.html

X-ray variability of the triplet star system LTT1445 and evaporation history of the planets around its A component
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/07/aa49400-24/aa49400-24.html

Are These Planets or Brown Dwarfs? Broadly Solar Compositions from High-resolution Atmospheric Retrievals of ∼10–30 MJup Companions
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad4796

Astrometry as a Tool for Discovering and Weighing Faint Companions to Nearby Stars
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ad59c5

Additional Doppler Monitoring Corroborates HAT-P-11 c as a Planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.11109

High-Resolution Dayside Spectroscopy of WASP-189b: Detection of Iron during the GHOST/Gemini South System Verification Run
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.11281

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Revisiting the GJ 581 multi-planetary system with new Doppler measurements from CARMENES, HARPS, and HIRES
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.11520

Searching for the Grand Tack in Exoplanetary Data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.11574

Tracking Advanced Planetary Systems (TAPAS) with HARPS-N VIII. A wide-orbit planetary companion in the hot-Jupiter system HD 118203
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.11706

Fate of a remnant solid disk around an eccentric giant planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.11829

Is the Emergence of Life an Expected Phase Transition in the Evolving Universe?
https://osf.io/preprints/osf/6rvjs

Interstellar Colonization Compendium
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8tp2emLJqw

Cosmic Channel Capacity: Extending the Shannon Limit to Universal Scales
https://osf.io/preprints/osf/vjy3p

25 years of exoplanet hunting hasn’t revealed Earth 2.0 — but is that what we’re looking for?
https://www.space.com/space-25-anniversary-exoplanet-history

Inhomogeneous terminators on the exoplanet WASP-39 b
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07768-4

A roadmap for the atmospheric characterization of terrestrial exoplanets with JWST
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-024-02298-5

Equilibrium tides and magnetic activity in stars with close-by massive planets – The intriguing case of WASP-18
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/07/aa48279-23/aa48279-23.html

Mind the trap. Non-negligible effect of volatile trapping in ice on C/O ratios in protoplanetary disks and exoplanetary atmospheres
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/07/aa50405-24/aa50405-24.html

The GAPS programme at TNG – LVII. TOI-5076b: A warm sub-Neptune planet orbiting a thin-to-thick-disk transition star in a wide binary system
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/07/aa49082-23/aa49082-23.html

JWST-TST High Contrast: Achieving Direct Spectroscopy of Faint Substellar Companions Next to Bright Stars with the NIRSpec Integral Field Unit
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad5281

Transmission Spectroscopy Along the Transit of Venus: A Proxy for Exoplanets Atmospheric Characterization
https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202407.0928/v1

Permanent Capture into the Solar System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.09560

PEPSI Investigation, Retrieval, and Atlas of Numerous Giant Atmospheres (PIRANGA). I. The Ubiquity of Fe I Emission and Inversions in Ultra Hot Jupiter Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.09643

Astro-COLIBRI: Empowering Citizen Scientists in Time Domain Astronomy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.10821

Exploring the Dyson Ring: Parameters, Stability and Helical Orbit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.10624

Searching for Protoplanets around MWC 758 and MWC 480 in Br-γ using Kernel Phase and SCExAO/CHARIS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.08832

Hot Spot Offset Variability from Magnetohydrodynamical Thermoresistive Instability in Hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.08960

Probing Cold-to-Temperate Exoplanetary Atmospheres: The Role of Water Condensation on Surface Identification with JWST
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.09009

The effect of spectroscopic binning on atmospheric retrievals
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.09296

Convective mixing in giant planets and the connection to atmospheric measurements
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.09341

A grid of self-consistent MSG (MARCS-StaticWeather-GGchem) cool stellar, sub-stellar, and exoplanetary model atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.09397