Interstellar Updates

A Featureless Infrared Transmission Spectrum for the Super-Puff Planet Kepler-79d
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.05480

The Nature of the Radius Valley: Hints from Formation and Evolution Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.05513

Paving the Way to Future Missions: the Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Technology Demonstration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.05624

Strong Scatterings of Cold Jupiters and their Influence on Inner Low-mass Planet Systems: Theory and Simulations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.05698

Detection Limits of Low-mass, Long-period Exoplanets Using Gaussian Processes Applied to HARPS-N Solar RVs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.05970

Where are the Extrasolar Mercuries?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.05992

The Gaia–Kepler Stellar Properties Catalog. II. Planet Radius Demographics as a Function of Stellar Mass and Age
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aba18a

ARES. II. Characterizing the Hot Jupiters WASP-127 b, WASP-79 b, and WASP-62b with the Hubble Space Telescope
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab94a3

Could the Migration of Jupiter have Accelerated the Atmospheric Evolution of Venus?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.04927

Effects of Flux Variation on the Surface Temperatures of Earth-like Circumbinary Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.04992

The GALAH Survey: Using Galactic Archaeology to Refine our Knowledge of TESS Target Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.05372

Early science with SPIRou: near-infrared radial velocity and spectropolarimetry of the planet-hosting star HD 189733
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.05411

Project Lyra: Catching 1I/’Oumuamua Using Nuclear Thermal Rockets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.05435

Optical Transmission Spectroscopy of the Terrestrial Exoplanet LHS 3844b from 13 Ground-Based Transit Observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.05444

Constraining Prebiotic Chemistry Through a Better Understanding of Earth’s Earliest Environments
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.04803

Human Enhancements for Space Missions
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-42036-9

MCNP Design of Radiation Shielding for Pulsed Fusion Propulsion
https://search.proquest.com/openview/017c5c64b6e4486f3a1ef8c4bbbf2aa2/

Orbital and Flight Stability Models for Breakthrough Starshot’s AO System
https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/642118

A naked gas giant
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1184-2

Monte Carlo estimation of the probability of causal contacts between communicating civilizations
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/monte-carlo-estimation-of-the-probability-of-causal-contacts-between-communicating-civilizations/E5CDEC05285A00DBA41E0A80C0F5FA03

Agent-based modelling of interstellar contacts using rumour spread models
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/agentbased-modelling-of-interstellar-contacts-using-rumour-spread-models/F223CB0F8C8CAA46C612155255B6CD05

The Importance of Local Interstellar Conditions on the Galactic Cosmic-Ray Spectrum at Exoplanets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aba7c8

Astraea: Predicting Long Rotation Periods with 27-Day Light Curves
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.03351

Water worlds in N-body simulations with fragmentation in systems without gaseous giants
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.03594

An Independent Analysis of the Six Recently Claimed Exomoon Candidates
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.03613

Non-detection of O2/O3 informs frequency of Earth-like planets with LUVOIR but not HabEx
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.03952

Probing the atmosphere of HD189733b with the Na I and K I lines
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.04044

Observing The Growth Of Breathable O2 Producer In High And Low Pressure And Light Conditions
https://spacegrant.oregonstate.edu/sites/spacegrant.oregonstate.edu/files/roodzack-5bf8q_presentation.pdf

Power Beaming Leakage Radiation as a Technosignature Observable
https://www.essoar.org/doi/abs/10.1002/essoar.10503872.1

Heat and charge transport in H2O at ice-giant conditions from ab initio molecular dynamics simulations
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17275-5

Ground-Based Transmission Spectroscopy with FORS2: A featureless optical transmission spectrum and detection of H2O for the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-103b
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa2307/5885344

Thermal Variations of Extremely Close-in Exoplanets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/abacb9

The challenge of identifying interstellar meteors
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0032063320302737

Monitoring of transiting exoplanets and their host stars with small aperture telescopes
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1384107620301457

Multiple Explanations for the Single Transit of KIC 5951458 based on Radial Velocity Measurements Extracted with a Novel Matched-template Technique
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.02811

Tidal dissipation in evolving low-mass and solar-type stars with predictions for planetary orbital decay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.03262