Interstellar Updates

Irradiance Variations of the Sun and Sun-Like Stars – Overview of Topical Collection
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11207-021-01802-8

Five carbon- and nitrogen-bearing species in a hot giant planet’s atmosphere
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03381-x

Transit Analysis of HATS-4 b by Citizen Scientists
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/abf496

Quantifying the Classification of Exoplanets: in Search for the Right Habitability Metric
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.02991

RAFTER: Ring Astrometric Field Telescope for Exo-planets and Relativity
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.03003

A transit timing variation observed for the long-period extremely low density exoplanet HIP 41378
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.03159

A search for a fifth planet around HR 8799 using the star-hopping RDI technique at VLT/SPHERE
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2021/04/aa38794-20/aa38794-20.html

Wide-orbit exoplanets are common. Analysis of nearly 20 years of OGLE microlensing survey data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.02079

OGLE-2018-BLG-1185b : A Low-Mass Microlensing Planet Orbiting a Low-Mass Dwarf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.02157

Significant improvement in planetary system simulations from statistical averaging
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.02179

Large density deficit of Earth’s core revealed by a multi-megabar primary pressure scale
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.02076

High-Accuracy Thrust Measurements of the EMDrive and Elimination of False-Positive Effects
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/350108418_High-Accuracy_Thrust_Measurements_of_the_EMDrive_and_Elimination_of_False-Positive_Effects

Evolutionary Panspermia: Planets Micro-Life and Beyond
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/349704978_Evolutionary_Panspermia_Planets_Micro-Life_and_Beyond

Efficiency of the oxygenic photosynthesis on Earth-like planets in the habitable zone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.01425

Of Aliens and Exoplanets: Why the search for life, probably, requires the search for water
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.01683

Warm Jupiters in TESS Full-Frame Images: A Catalog and Observed Eccentricity Distribution for Year 1
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.01970

High pCO2 reduces sensitivity to CO2 perturbations on temperate, Earth-like planets throughout most of habitable zone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.01224

Solar Sail Propulsion by 2050: An Enabling Capability for Heliophysics Missions
https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/helio2050/pdf/4009.pdf

NASA’s Space Launch System Capabilities for Ultra-High C3 Missions
https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/helio2050/pdf/4057.pdf

Ectogenesis for survival in deep space and deep time: reply to Gale and Wandel
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/ectogenesis-for-survival-in-deep-space-and-deep-time-reply-to-gale-and-wandel/0F9D05DD3756DA66799658F8959C1775

Near-term self-replicating probes – A concept design
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S009457652100117X

Astrobiology of life on Earth
https://sfamjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1462-2920.15499

Magnetic and tidal migration of close-in planets. Influence of secular evolution on their population
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.01004

TRAPPIST Habitable Atmosphere Intercomparison (THAI) workshop report
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.01091

EXOPLINES: Molecular Absorption Cross-Section Database for Brown Dwarf and Giant Exoplanet Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.00264

KMT-2019-BLG-1715: planetary microlensing event with three lens masses and two source stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.00293