Simulating Reflected Light Exoplanet Spectra of the Promising Direct Imaging Target, υ Andromedae d, with a New, Fast Sampling Method Using the Planetary Spectrum Generator
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abf657
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June 24, 2021 updates
Past, present and future stars that can see Earth as a transiting exoplanet
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03596-y
Machine learning techniques in studies of the interior structure of rocky exoplanets
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2021/06/aa40375-21/aa40375-21.html
The future influence of six exoplanets on the envelope properties of their parent stars on the giant branches
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab1774/6308832
Understanding the Effects of Systematics in Exoplanetary Atmospheric Retrievals
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.12358
Radiative Rayleigh-Taylor Instability and the structure of clouds in planetary atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.12448
June 23, 2021 updates
Tidally Heated Exomoons around Gas Giants
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/abf6cb
Gaia search for stellar companions of TESS Objects of Interest II
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.202113972
Exploiting timing capabilities of the CHEOPS mission with warm-Jupiter planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.11331
Non-detection of Helium in the upper atmospheres of TRAPPIST-1b, e and f
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.11444
Simulating gas giant exoplanet atmospheres with Exo-FMS: Comparing semi-grey, picket fence and correlated-k radiative-transfer schemes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.11664
June 22, 2021 updates
A Framework for Discovering Optimal Solutions in Photonic Inverse Design
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.08419
Timescales for Prebiotic Photochemistry Under Realistic Surface Ultraviolet Conditions
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2020.2335
Nonlinear Deployment Dynamics and Wrinkling of a Membrane Attached to Two Axially Moving Beams
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.A34962
Evolution of the Exoplanet Size Distribution: Forming Large Super-Earths Over Billions of Years
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abf439
Detection of Aerosols at Microbar Pressures in an Exoplanet Atmosphere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.10292
Planetary magnetosphere evolution around post-main-sequence stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.10293
Irradiation-driven escape of primordial planetary atmospheres I. The ATES photoionization hydrodynamics code
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.10294
An analytic solution for evaluating the magnetic field induced from an arbitrary, asymmetric ocean world
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.10878
Formulation and Resolutions of the Red Sky Paradox
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.11207
Non-local thermodynamic equilibrium effects determine the upper atmospheric temperature structure of the ultra-hot Jupiter KELT-9b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.11263
The impact of classical and General Relativistic obliquity precessions on the habitability of circumstellar neutron stars’ planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.06024
Self-stabilization of light sails by damped internal degrees of freedom
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.10961
June 21, 2021 updates
Drake-like Calculations for the Frequency of Life in the Universe
https://www.mdpi.com/2409-9287/6/2/49/htm
Worldship and self replicating systems
https://i4is.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Worldship-and-self-replicating-systems-Principium32-print-2102221659-opt.pdf
Space ML
http://www.spaceml.org/
Radio interference reduction in interstellar communications: methods and observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.10168
The Occurrence-weighted Median Planets Discovered by Transit Surveys Orbiting Solar-type Stars and Their Implications for Planet Formation and Evolution
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.09725
Polarimetric Signature of Ocean as Detected by Near-Infrared Earthshine Observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.10099
An analytical model for tidal evolution in co-orbital systems I. Application to exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.10186