Interstellar Updates

JPL Work on a Gravitational Lensing Mission
https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2020/12/16/jpl-work-on-a-gravitational-lensing-mission/

Solid tidal friction in multi-layer planets: Application to Earth, Venus, a Super Earth and the TRAPPIST-1 planets – Potential approximation of a multi-layer planet as a homogeneous body
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/12/aa38204-20/aa38204-20.html

The Planet as Exoplanet Analog Spectrograph (PEAS): Design and First-Light
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.08675

Revisiting KELT-19Ab, WASP-156b and WASP-121b in the TESS Era
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.08744

Non-Sinusoidal Transit Timing Variations for the Exoplanet HAT-P-12b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.08820

Update on the Preliminary Design of SCALES: the Santa Cruz Array of Lenslets for Exoplanet Spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.09098

K2 Targets Observed in TESS Cycles 1–3
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/abd39e

A Statistical Estimation of the Occurrence of Extraterrestrial Intelligence in the Milky Way Galaxy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.07902

The search for radio emission from the exoplanetary systems 55 Cancri, υ Andromedae, and τ Boötis using LOFAR beam-formed observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.07926

A Guide to Realistic Uncertainties on Fundamental Properties of Solar-Type Exoplanet Host Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.07957

Effects of Spin-Orbit Resonances and Tidal Heating on the Inner Edge of the Habitable Zone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.07996

RISTRETTO: a pathfinder instrument for exoplanet atmosphere characterization
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.08182

Are There Transit Timing Variations for the Exoplanet Qatar-1b ?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.08184

Estimating low-order aberrations through a Lyot coronagraph with a Zernike wavefront sensor for exoplanet imaging
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.08423

The TESS-Keck Survey II: An Ultra-Short Period Rocky Planet and its Siblings Transiting the Galactic Thick-Disk Star TOI-561
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.03071

Gravitational Lensing and Optical Geometry: A Centennial Perspective
https://www.mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/3200

Bridge To The Stars: A Mission Concept And Policy To Enable An Inner Solar System Encounter With An Interstellar Object
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020EPSC…14..575L/abstract

Radio observations of HD 80606 near planetary periastron – II. LOFAR low band antenna observations at 30–78 MHz
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/12/aa38746-20/aa38746-20.html

Formation of Ultra-short-period Planets by Obliquity-driven Tidal Runaway
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abc4e5

Lava Worlds: From Early Earth to Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.07337

Exoplanets through extreme optics: from PLATO to SHARK-NIR
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.06672

DiskFM: A Forward Modeling Tool for Disk Analysis with Coronagraphic Instruments
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.06790

Optimizing MARVEL for the radial velocity follow-up of TESS and PLATO transiting exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.07137

ExoClock Project: An open platform for monitoring the ephemerides of Ariel targets with contributions from the public
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.07478

Experimental analysis of the achromatic performance of a vector vortex coronagraph
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.07728

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Anomalous Sun Flyby of 1I/2017 U1 (`Oumuamua)
https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4434/8/4/83

On the scaling and spacing of extra-solar multi-planet systems
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10509-020-03899-y

Hibernating lemurs may be the key to cryogenic sleep for human space travel
https://theconversation.com/hibernating-lemurs-may-be-the-key-to-cryogenic-sleep-for-human-space-travel-148408

Bridge to the stars: A mission concept to an interstellar object
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0032063320303500

Stellar Winds Drive Strong Variations in Exoplanet Evaporative Outflows and Transit Absorption Signatures
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.05922

Internal Water Storage Capacity of terrestrial Planets and the Effect of Hydration on the M-R Relation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.06455

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs – LP 714-47 b (TOI 442.01): populating the Neptune desert
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/12/aa38016-20/aa38016-20.html

Detection of pre-industrial societies on exoplanets
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/abs/detection-of-preindustrial-societies-on-exoplanets/2F1C14870F756707F4808D2045AAA80C

Speckle Imaging Characterization of Radial Velocity Exoplanet Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.05253

Magnetic field and chromospheric activity evolution of HD75332: a rapid magnetic cycle in an F star without a hot Jupiter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.05407

Combining Transit and RV: A Synthesized Population Model
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.05423

Image recovery with the solar gravitational lens
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.05477

Three-body capture, ejection, and the demographics of bound objects in binary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.05875