Interstellar Updates

Continued development of the pulsed magnetic nozzle for the Pulsed Fission Fusion (PuFF) vehicle
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2021-3608

Experimental Validation Testing of a Paired-Particle Matter/Anti-Matter Propulsion System, with Proposed Project Management
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2021-3251

Numerical Optimization of Warp Drive Geometries
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2021-3596

Planetary migration in precessing disks for S-type wide binaries
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab2059/6330471

A HARPS-N mass for the elusive Kepler-37d: a case study in disentangling stellar activity and planetary signals
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.13900

Speckle Observations of TESS Exoplanet Host Stars. II. Stellar Companions at 1–1000 au and Implications for Small Planet Detection
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac0d06

Transmission Spectroscopy of the Earth–Sun System to Inform the Search for Extrasolar Life
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.13652

Interstellar Communications
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9438311

HD 183579b: A Warm Sub-Neptune Transiting a Solar Twin Detected by TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.14015

A large sub-Neptune transiting the thick-disk M4V TOI-2406
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.14125

Beyond runaway: initiation of the post-runaway greenhouse state on rocky exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.14150

ESA F-Class Comet Interceptor: Trajectory Design to Intercept a Yet-to-be-discovered Comet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.12999

TOI-532b: The Habitable-zone Planet Finder confirms a Large Super Neptune in the Neptune Desert orbiting a metal-rich M dwarf host
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.13670

Detectable Abundance of Cyanoacetylene (HC3N) Predicted on Reduced Nitrogen-Rich Super-Earth Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.13097

Oxygenation, Life, and the Planetary System during Earth’s Middle History: An Overview
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2020.2418

Assessment of Ammonia as a Biosignature Gas in Exoplanet Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.12424

The Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer: A dedicated single-mode fiber injection unit for high resolution exoplanet spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.12556

The Galileo Project
https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/galileo

For the 71st IAC System Engineering a Solar Thermal Propulsion Mission Concept for Rapid Interstellar Medium Access
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42423-021-00077-2

TOI-1259Ab – a gas giant planet with 2.7 per cent deep transits and a bound white dwarf companion
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab2129/6329054

A Mission to Nature’s Telescope for High-Resolution Imaging of an Exoplanet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.11473

Revealing the Vertical Cloud Structure of a young low-mass Brown Dwarf, an analog to the beta-Pictoris b directly-imaged exoplanet, through Keck I/MOSFIRE spectro-photometric variability
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.12368

Interior heating and outgassing of Proxima Centauri b: Identifying critical parameters
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2021/07/aa40176-20/aa40176-20.html

Observational Consequences of Shallow-water Magnetohydrodynamics on Hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.10848

Weather on Other Worlds. VI. Optical Spectrophotometry of Luhman 16B Reveals Large-amplitude Variations in the Alkali Lines
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.10995

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