Interstellar Updates

A Framework for Investigating Rules of Life by Establishing Zones of Influence
https://academic.oup.com/icb/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/icb/icab169/6326619

Which Milky Way Globular Clusters Might Have Favored an Extraterrestrial Civilization?
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ac1602

Chemical equilibrium between Cores, Mantles, and Atmospheres of Super-Earths and Sub-Neptunes, and Implications for their Compositions, Interiors and Evolution
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.10405

Planets Across Space and Time (PAST). II: Catalog and Analyses of the LAMOST-Gaia-Kepler Stellar Kinematic Properties
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.10704

Algorithmic Speedups and Posterior Biases from Orbit Fitting of Directly Imaged Exoplanets in Cartesian Coordinates
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ac151d

Laplace surface dynamics, revisited: satellites, exo-planets and debris with distant, eccentric companions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.09682

Limits of Detecting Extraterrestrial Civilizations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.09794

Phosphine on Venus Cannot Be Explained by Conventional Processes
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2020.2352

The NEID Spectrograph
https://neid.psu.edu/

Constraints on the nearby exoplanet ϵ Indi Ab from deep near- and mid-infrared imaging limits
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2021/07/aa40730-21/aa40730-21.html

Confirmation of the Long-Period Planet Orbiting Gliese 411 and the Detection of a New Planet Candidate
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.09087

Into the Storm: Diving into the winds of the ultra hot Jupiter WASP-76 b with HARPS and ESPRESSO
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.09530

Why do more massive stars host larger planets?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.09534

Light-Sail Photonic Design for Fast-Transit Earth Orbital Maneuvering and Interplanetary Flight
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.09121

A differentiable N-body code for transit timing and dynamical modeling – I. Algorithm and derivatives
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab2044/6324024

Super-Earths and Sub-Neptunes Are Insensitive to Stellar Metallicity
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac0431

Wolf 503 b: Characterization of a Sub-Neptune Orbiting a Metal-Poor K Dwarf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.08092

The post-transit tail of WASP-107b observed at 10830A
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.08999

Water activity in Venus’s uninhabitable clouds and other planetary atmospheres
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-021-01391-3

SETI in 2020
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.07512

The Magnetic Mechanism for Hotspot Reversals in Hot Jupiter Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.07515

Hiding Planets Near and Far: Predicting Hidden Companions for Known Planetary Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.07529

Stellar Wind Confinement of Evaporating Exoplanet Atmospheres and its Signatures in 1083 nm Observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.07534

ExoPlaSim: Extending the Planet Simulator for Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.07685