Interstellar Updates

The Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) on the James Webb Space Telescope – IV. Capabilities and predicted performance for exoplanet characterization
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/05/aa42592-21/aa42592-21.html

Origins of Chiral Life in Interstellar Molecular Clouds
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac63d0

Development of a rotational shearing interferometer for detection of (habitable) exoplanets
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/12170/2604053/Development-of-a-rotational-shearing-interferometer-for-detection-of-habitable/10.1117/12.2604053.short

The Futility of Exoplanet Biosignatures
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.07921

Impact of Economic Constraints on the Projected Timeframe for Human-Crewed Deep Space Exploration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.08061

The Great Planetary Heist: Theft and capture in star-forming regions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.07895

AbSciCon 2022: From Stars to Cells
https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/abscicon-2022-open-public-events/

Nexus for Exoplanet System Science
https://nexss.info/

Network for Life Detection
https://www.nfold.org/

Request for Information: Early Cells to Multicellularity
https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/request-for-information-early-cells-to-multicellularity/

Searching for the origin of the Ehrenreich effect in ultra-hot Jupiters – Evidence for strong C/O gradients in the atmosphere of WASP-76 b?
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/05/aa42591-21/aa42591-21.html

HD 83443c: A Highly Eccentric Giant Planet on a 22 yr Orbit
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac6589

Water UV-shielding in the Terrestrial Planet-forming Zone: Implications from Water Emission
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ac66ce

Resolving the Multiplicity of Exoplanet Host Stars in Gemini/NIRI Data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.06899

To Sample or Not To Sample: Retrieving Exoplanetary Spectra with Variational Inference and Normalising Flows
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.07037

Transfer of Rocks between Planetary Systems: Panspermia Revisited
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.07799

The Visual Survey Group: A Decade of Hunting Exoplanets and Unusual Stellar Events with Space-Based Telescopes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.07832

Patchy nightside clouds on ultra-hot Jupiters: General Circulation Model simulations with radiatively active cloud tracers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.07834

Five key exoplanet questions answered via the analysis of 25 hot Jupiter atmospheres in eclipse
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.11729

Nitriles in Prebiotic Chemistry and Astrobiology
https://research.chalmers.se/publication/529433

The Planetary Vaporization Event Hypothesis: Supercharging Earth’s Geothermal Core, Identifying Side Effects Blast Patterns, and Inferring how to Find Earth-Like Planets or Identifying Super Charged Geothermal Cores and their Byproduct Blast Patterns
https://www.scipress.com/ILCPA.87.1

Can Carbon Fractionation Provide Evidence for Aerial Biospheres in the Atmospheres of Temperate Sub-Neptunes?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.06284

Simulations of astrometric planet detection in alpha Centauri by intensity interferometry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.06517

The Effect of Ocean Salinity on Climate and Its Implications for Earth’s Habitability
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.06785

Astrospheres of Planet-Hosting Cool Stars and Beyond ⋅ When Modeling Meets Observations
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-022-00894-3

Asymptotic burnout and homeostatic awakening: a possible solution to the Fermi paradox?
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2022.0029

Direct Imaging and Spectroscopy of Extrasolar Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.05696

Another Shipment of Six Short-Period Giant Planets from TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.05709

An Integrative Analysis of the Rich Planetary System of the Nearby Star e Eridani: Ideal Targets For Exoplanet Imaging and Biosignature Searches
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.06250

Split differential transit photometry
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10509-022-04075-0

A prebiotically plausible scenario of an RNA–peptide world
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04676-3

A possible path towards encoded protein synthesis on ancient Earth
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01256-3

RRx-001 and the “Right Stuff”: Protection and Treatment in Outer Space
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214552422000293

Unearthing terrestrial extreme microbiomes for searching terrestrial-like life in the Solar System
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0966842X22000920

Exoplanet detection with Genesis
https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/10.1142/S2251171722500118

CHES: a space-borne astrometric mission for the detection of habitable planets of the nearby solar-type stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.05645

Ocean signatures in the total flux and polarization spectra of Earth-like exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.05669