Interstellar Updates

Photonic Laser Thruster: 100 Times Scaling-Up and Propulsion Demonstration
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/1.B38144

Exotic Fluids Matching the Stress-Energy Tensor of Alcubierre Warp Drive Spacetimes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.09941

Semi-analytical model for planetary resonances: application to planets around single and binary stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.12296

The Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer: Phase I fiber injection unit early performance and commissioning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.12318

Hot Jupiter and Ultra-cold Saturn Formation in Dense Star Clusters
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abc619

Exoplanet imaging data challenge: benchmarking the various image processing methods for exoplanet detection
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/11448/2574803/Exoplanet-imaging-data-challenge–benchmarking-the-various-image-processing/10.1117/12.2574803.short

Performance study of interferometric small-sats to detect exoplanets: updated exoplanet yield and application to nearby exoplanets
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/11446/2562119/Performance-study-of-interferometric-small-sats-to-detect-exoplanets/10.1117/12.2562119.short

The Fundamental Connections Between the Solar System and Exoplanetary Science
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.11628

Magnetospheres of Terrestrial Exoplanets and Exomoons: Implications for Habitability and Detection
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.11694

Semi-Empirical Modeling of the Atmospheres of the M Dwarf Exoplanet Hosts GJ 832 and GJ 581
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.11738

MOVES IV. Modelling the influence of stellar XUV-flux, cosmic rays, and stellar energetic particles on the atmospheric composition of the hot Jupiter HD 189733b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.12132

Models of Disability as Models of First Contact
https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/11/12/676

Navigation Using Pulsars and Other Variable Celestial Sources
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781119458555.ch52

Persistence of flare-driven atmospheric chemistry on rocky habitable zone worlds
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-01264-1

Determining the true mass of radial-velocity exoplanets with Gaia – Nine planet candidates in the brown dwarf or stellar regime and 27 confirmed planets
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2021/01/aa39168-20/aa39168-20.html

Earth as a Proxy Exoplanet: Deconstructing and Reconstructing Spectrophotometric Light Curves
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.10556

Hydrodynamic Escape of Mineral Atmosphere from Hot Rocky Exoplanet. I. Model Description
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.10605

TESS Asteroseismology of α Mensae: Benchmark Ages for a G7 Dwarf and its M-dwarf Companion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.10797

ogle-2017-blg-1049: another giant planet microlensing event
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.11080

Detectability of biosignatures on LHS 1140 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.11426

Planetary Diversity: Rocky planet processes and their observational signatures
https://iopscience.iop.org/book/978-0-7503-2140-2

Warp Drive and the Kardashev Scale: Our Competence of Travelling Faster than Light
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344848513_Warp_Drive_and_the_Kardashev_Scale_Our_Competence_of_Travelling_Faster_than_Light

When Is Life a Viable Hypothesis? The Case of Venusian Phosphine
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2020.2390

Breakthrough Propulsion Study — Assessing Interstellar Challenges and Prospects
https://jbis.org.uk/paper/2020.73.427

Technological Challenges in Low-Mass Interstellar Probe Communication
https://jbis.org.uk/paper/2020.73.438

Survivability of Metallic Shields for Relativistic Spacecraft
https://jbis.org.uk/paper/2020.73.446

Interstellar Material within the Solar System
https://jbis.org.uk/paper/2020.73.457

Ephemeris Refinement of the Exoplanet Candidate around the White Dwarf WD1856+534
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/abd480

Keys of a Mission to Uranus or Neptune, the Closest Ice Giants
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.09863

The GAPS Programme at TNG. XXX. No detection of reflected light from 51~Peg~b using optical high-resolution spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.10435

Understanding the Impacts of Stellar Companions on Planet Formation and Evolution: A Survey of Stellar and Planetary Companions within 25 pc
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.09190

The Influence of Age on the Relative Frequency of Super-Earths and Sub-Neptunes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.09239

On the Scaling and Spacing of Extra-Solar Multi-Planet Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.09431

The Tierras Observatory: An ultra-precise photometer to characterize nearby terrestrial exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.09744