Interstellar Updates

Cheops opens its eye to the sky
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Cheops/Cheops_opens_its_eye_to_the_sky

KIDSpec: An MKID-Based Medium-Resolution, Integral Field Spectrograph
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10909-020-02347-z

Starshade formation flying I: optical sensing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.10575

Detection of the phase curve and occultation of WASP-100b with TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.10580

Dangerous stellar encounters with an Earth-like planet in the Milky Way galaxy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.10595

Radial velocity constraints on the long-period transiting planet Kepler-1625 b with CARMENES
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.10867

Habitable zones around almost extremely spinning black holes (black sun revisited)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.10991

GAO warns of more JWST delays
https://spacenews.com/gao-warns-of-more-jwst-delays/

NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe Mission Enters Design Phase
https://www.swri.org/press-release/imap-codice-solar-wind-particle-acceleration

Does artificial intelligence dream of non-terrestrial techno-signatures?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S009457651931392X

Red Dots: A temperate 1.5 Earth-mass planet candidate in a compact multi-terrestrial planet system around GJ 1061
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa248/5717319

MOVES III. Simultaneous X-ray and ultraviolet observations unveiling the variable environment of the hot Jupiter HD 189733b
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa256/5717312

Seismicity on tidally active solid-surface worlds
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103518307243

Technological Challenges in Low-mass Interstellar Probe Communication
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.09987

Quantifying the Bayesian Evidence for a Planet in Radial Velocity Data
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab5190

The Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey: Dynamical Mass of the Exoplanet β Pictoris b from Combined Direct Imaging and Astrometry
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab5b92

Ondřejov Echelle Spectrograph, Ground Based Support Facility for Exoplanet Missions
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ab6752

A hot terrestrial planet orbiting the bright M dwarf L 168-9 unveiled by TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.09175

Atmosphere Origins for Exoplanet Sub-Neptunes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.09269

On the aspect ratio of Oumuamua: less elongated shape for irregular surface properties
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.09283

Reviewing METI: A Critical Analysis of the Arguments
https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.05663

Virtual European Solar & Planetary Access (VESPA): a Planetary Science Virtual Observatory cornerstone
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.06521

Asteroseismic Characterization of Exoplanet-host stars in preparation for NASA’s TESS and ESA’s PLATO space missions
https://hdl.handle.net/10216/125557

How Earth Climate Models Help Scientists Picture Life on Unimaginable Worlds
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/how-earth-climate-models-help-scientists-picture-life-on-unimaginable-worlds

Astrophysics of Planet Formation
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/astrophysics-of-planet-formation/B8930D0AAA52F707BDA8A33F67DEA40E

Detection of Diatomic Carbon in 2I/Borisov
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab6bd9

Mass determinations of the three mini-Neptunes transiting TOI-125
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.08834

Effect of vegetation on the temperatures of Trappist-1 planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.08946

Post-Detection SETI Protocols & METI: The Time Has Come To Regulate Them Both
https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.08422

Challenges in Scientific Data Communication from Low-Mass Interstellar Probe
https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.07778

Collisional formation of massive exomoons of super-terrestrial exoplanets
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa211/5715471

On the Habitable Lifetime of Terrestrial Worlds with High Radionuclide Abundances
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab68e5

A multiplicity study of transiting exoplanet host stars. I. High-contrast imaging with VLT/SPHERE
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.08224

A multiplicity study of transiting exoplanet host stars. II. Revised properties of transiting planetary systems with companions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.08225

Cloud Atlas: High-precision HST/WFC3/IR Time-Resolved Observations of Directly-Imaged Exoplanet HD106906b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.08304

A Search for Transiting Planets in the Globular Cluster M4 with K2: Candidates and Occurrence Limits
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.08362