Interstellar Updates

Thorium Candlestick Fission Fragment Starship
https://www.academia.edu/32042136/Thorium_Candlestick_Fission_Fragment_Starship

Nonthermal Atmospheric Loss of the Sub-Neptune π Men c Due to Exothermic Photochemistry
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S0038094622020010

Images of embedded Jovian planet formation at a wide separation around AB Aurigae
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-022-01634-x

The Number of Possible CETIs within Our Galaxy and the Communication Probability among These CETIs
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac561d

Phantom traversable wormholes in modified teleparallel gravity
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0577907322000570

Follow-up observations of the binary system γ Cep
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.20224014

The case and context for atmospheric methane as an exoplanet biosignature
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2117933119

Identifying Exoplanets with Machine Learning Methods: A Preliminary Study
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.00721

Near infrared and optical emission of WASP-5 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.01137

The rotation of planet-hosting stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.01421

The Path to Transformational Space Exploration: Volume 2: Applications of Directed Energy
https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/10.1142/11918-vol2

Gravity darkening and tidally perturbed stellar pulsation in the misaligned exoplanet system WASP-33
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/04/aa43299-22/aa43299-22.html

Phosphorus and Life on a Water World
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021GL097346

The struggle to define a planet sees some alien worlds kicked off the list
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0262407922005553

N-body Interactions will be Detectable in the HR-8799 System within 5 yr with VLTI-GRAVITY
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ac61d8

Kepler-1656b’s Extreme Eccentricity: Signature of a Gentle Giant
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.00019

Research programmes arising from ‘Oumuamua considered as an alien craft
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/abs/research-programmes-arising-from-oumuamua-considered-as-an-alien-craft/2F0CD6A0EF109B7445A11CB56035D014

MOVES V. Modelling star-planet magnetic interactions of HD 189733
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac778/6562088

Is the orbital distribution of multi-planet systems influenced by pure 3-planet resonances?
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac876/6561620

KMT-2021-BLG-1077L: The fifth confirmed multiplanetary system detected by microlensing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.16734

Kepler K2 Campaign 9: II. First space-based discovery of an exoplanet using microlensing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.16959

Atmosphere Loss in Oblique Super-Earth Impacts
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.17064

A Multi-Planet System’s Sole Super-Puff: Exploring Allowable Physical Parameters for the Cold Super-Puff HIP 41378 f
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.17180

The TESS Triple-9 Catalog: 999 uniformly vetted candidate exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.15826

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs: Two Saturn-mass planets orbiting active stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.16504

An Arcus view of stellar space weather
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.20220019

A New Analysis of 8 Spitzer Phase Curves and Hot Jupiter Population Trends: Qatar-1b, Qatar-2b, WASP-52b, WASP-34b, and WASP-140b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.15059

A radial limit on polar circumbinary orbits from general relativity
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.15160