Interstellar Updates

In Search for a Planet Better than Earth: Top Contenders for a Superhabitable World
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2019.2161

An ultrahot Neptune in the Neptune desert
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1142-z

M51-ULS-1b: The First Candidate for a Planet in an External Galaxy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.08987

A Significant Increase in Detection of High-Resolution Emission Spectra Using a Three-Dimensional Atmospheric Model of a Hot Jupiter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.09030

Dynamical Mass Estimates of the β Pictoris Planetary System Through Gaussian Process Stellar Activity Modelling
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.09276

TFAW survey. I. Wavelet-based denoising of K2 light curves. Discovery and validation of two new Earth-sized planets in K2 campaign 1
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.09285

A numerical method for computing optimum radii of host stars and orbits of planets, with application to Kepler-11, Kepler-90, Kepler-215, HD 10180, HD 34445, and TRAPPIST-1
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.09732

Theoretical vs. observational uncertainties: composition of giant exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.09746

On the interstellar origin of high-inclination Centaurs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.09773

Going back to basics: accelerating exoplanet transit modelling using Taylor-series expansion of the orbital motion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.09965

π Earth: A 3.14 day Earth-sized Planet from K2’s Kitchen Served Warm by the SPECULOOS Team
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aba95f

Circular Binary Star and an Interstellar Interloper: The Analytical Solution
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1384107620303377

MOA-2009-BLG-319Lb: A Sub-Saturn Planet Inside the Predicted Mass Desert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.08461

ACCESS: Confirmation of no potassium in the atmosphere of WASP-31b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.08472

RoadRunner: a fast and flexible exoplanet transit model
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.08500

Multi-orbital-phase and multi-band characterization of exoplanetary atmospheres with reflected light spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.08579

Oumuamuas passing through molecular clouds
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.08773

TOI-481 b & TOI-892 b: Two long period hot Jupiters from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.08881

WASP-117 b: an eccentric hot-Saturn as a future complex chemistry laboratory
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.08916

Novel Technosignatures
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.08873

A giant planet candidate transiting a white dwarf
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2713-y

The White Dwarf Opportunity: Robust Detections of Molecules in Earth-like Exoplanet Atmospheres with the James Webb Space Telescope
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aba9d3

Exploration of trans-Neptunian objects using the Direct Fusion Drive
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576520305610

Abundant atmospheric methane from volcanism on terrestrial planets is unlikely and strengthens the case for methane as a biosignature
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.07761

On The Biomass Required To Produce Phosphine Detected In The Cloud Decks Of Venus
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.07835

GJ 357 b – A super-Earth orbiting an extremely inactive host star
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/09/aa38280-20/aa38280-20.html

An Increase in Small-planet Occurrence with Metallicity for Late-type Dwarf Stars in the Kepler Field and Its Implications for Planet Formation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.06638

Revisiting the Architecture of the KOI-89 System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.06850

An exact, generalised Laplace resonance in the HR 8799 planetary system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.07006

An Earth-like stellar wind environment for Proxima Centauri c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.07266

Life in Extreme Environments: Insights in Biological Capability – Chapter 13: Analytical astrobiology: the search for life signatures and the remote detection of biomarkers through their Raman spectral interrogation
https://www.amazon.com/Life-Extreme-Environments-Biological-Capability-ebook/dp/B08GG9S318/

Fine-Tuning in the Physical Universe – Chapter 12: On the Temporal Habitability of Our Universe
https://www.amazon.com/Fine-Tuning-Physical-Universe-David-Sloan-ebook/dp/B08GG9RHHG/

Phosphine gas in the cloud decks of Venus
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1174-4

A search for He I airglow emission from the hot Jupiter tau Boo b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.05821

Discriminating between hazy and clear hot-Jupiter atmospheres with CARMENES
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.06280

The Venusian Lower Atmosphere Haze as a Depot for Desiccated Microbial Life: A Proposed Life Cycle for Persistence of the Venusian Aerial Biosphere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.06474

Phosphine on Venus Cannot be Explained by Conventional Processes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.06499

Two Planets Straddling the Habitable Zone of The Nearby K dwarf Gl 414A
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.06503