Interstellar Updates

Extrasolar Object Interceptor and Sample Return Enabled by Compact, Ultra Power Dense Radioisotope Batteries
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2021_Phase_I/Extrasolar_Object_Interceptor_and_Sample_Return/

A critical assessment of the applicability of the energy-limited approximation for estimating exoplanetary mass-loss rates
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.05858

Minimal Differential Lateral Acceleration Configurations for Starshade Stationkeeping in Exoplanet Direct Imaging
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.05898

HADES RV programme with HARPS-N at TNG XIV. A candidate super-Earth orbiting the M-dwarf GJ 9689 with a period close to half the stellar rotation period
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.06155

How Close are Compact Multi-Planet Systems to the Stability Limit?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.06338

Longitudinally Resolved Spectral Retrieval (ReSpect) of WASP-43b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.06353

A one-armed CNN for exoplanet detection from light curves
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.06292

Planet Hunters TESS III: Two transiting planets around the bright G dwarf HD 152843
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab1253/6274703

Super-Jupiters Migrate Outward
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.05277

Reconfiguring SETI in the microbial context: Panspermia as a solution to Fermi’s paradox
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0303264721000964

The New Generation Planetary Population Synthesis (NGPPS). IV. Planetary systems around low-mass stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.04596

Friends and Foes: Conditional Occurrence Rates of Exoplanet Companions and their Impact on Radial Velocity Follow-up Surveys
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.04703

EXOPLANETS AND SPACECRAFT Exercises in astronomy and space exploration for high school students
http://fiztan.phd.elte.hu/files/written_mat/astronomy_ex.pdf

Relativistically into finance
https://www.repository.utl.pt/handle/10400.5/21262

Venus, an Astrobiology Target
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2020.2268

Experimental Determination of Mantle Solidi and Melt Compositions for Two Likely Rocky Exoplanet Compositions
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020JE006731

Long Period Jovian Tilts the Orbits of Two sub-Neptunes Relative to Stellar Spin Axis in Kepler-129
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.03446

The orbital evolution of resonant chains of exoplanets incorporating circularisation produced by tidal interaction with the central star with application to the HD 158259 and EPIC 245950175 systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.03652

Systematic search for long-term transit duration changes in Kepler transiting planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.04318

An interstellar communication method: system design and observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.03727

The Drake Equation at 60: Reconsidered and Abandoned
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.03984

Why Are We Here?: Constraining the Milky Way’s Galactic Habitable Zone
https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/d8-60np-j341

Exocometary Activity Around Stars at Different Evolutionary Stages: Current Issues
https://link.springer.com/article/10.3103/S0884591321020057

Light sail boosted by instantaneous radiation pressure
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjp/s13360-021-01357-4

Time-domain Modulation of HD 189733 Activities by Its Planet
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abf55d

An upper limit for the growth of inner planets?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.02907

Estimating Ion Escape from Unmagnetized Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.03174

Looking for astrometric signals below 20 m/s: A candidate exo-Jupiter in δ Pav
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.03244

Feasibility of Detecting Interstellar Panspermia in Astrophysical Environments
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.03295