Interstellar Updates

A Framework for Discovering Optimal Solutions in Photonic Inverse Design
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.08419

Timescales for Prebiotic Photochemistry Under Realistic Surface Ultraviolet Conditions
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2020.2335

Nonlinear Deployment Dynamics and Wrinkling of a Membrane Attached to Two Axially Moving Beams
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.A34962

Evolution of the Exoplanet Size Distribution: Forming Large Super-Earths Over Billions of Years
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abf439

Detection of Aerosols at Microbar Pressures in an Exoplanet Atmosphere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.10292

Planetary magnetosphere evolution around post-main-sequence stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.10293

Irradiation-driven escape of primordial planetary atmospheres I. The ATES photoionization hydrodynamics code
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.10294

An analytic solution for evaluating the magnetic field induced from an arbitrary, asymmetric ocean world
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.10878

Formulation and Resolutions of the Red Sky Paradox
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.11207

Non-local thermodynamic equilibrium effects determine the upper atmospheric temperature structure of the ultra-hot Jupiter KELT-9b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.11263

The impact of classical and General Relativistic obliquity precessions on the habitability of circumstellar neutron stars’ planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.06024

Self-stabilization of light sails by damped internal degrees of freedom
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.10961

Drake-like Calculations for the Frequency of Life in the Universe
https://www.mdpi.com/2409-9287/6/2/49/htm

Worldship and self replicating systems
https://i4is.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Worldship-and-self-replicating-systems-Principium32-print-2102221659-opt.pdf

Space ML
http://www.spaceml.org/

Radio interference reduction in interstellar communications: methods and observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.10168

The Occurrence-weighted Median Planets Discovered by Transit Surveys Orbiting Solar-type Stars and Their Implications for Planet Formation and Evolution
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.09725

Polarimetric Signature of Ocean as Detected by Near-Infrared Earthshine Observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.10099

An analytical model for tidal evolution in co-orbital systems I. Application to exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.10186

Slingshot prominences: a hidden mass loss mechanism
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab1709/6304847

An Open-Source Gaussian Beamlet Decomposition Tool for Modeling Astronomical Telescopes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.09162

Generic Models for Disk-Resolved and Disk-Integrated Phase Dependent Linear Polarization of Light Reflected from Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.09434

Interstellar objects follow the collapse of molecular clouds
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.08580

Linearized Field Deblending: PSF Photometry for Impatient Astronomers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.08411

Waterworlds Probably Do Not Experience Magmatic Outgassing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.08538

Discovery of an inflated hot Jupiter around a slightly evolved star TOI-1789
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.08660

Idealised 3D simulations of diabatically-forced Ledoux convection. Application to the atmosphere of hot rocky exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.08842

Multiband Transit Follow-up Observations of Five Hot Jupiters with Critical Noise Treatments: Improved Physical Properties
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac01dd

LBT Reveals Large Dust Particles and a High Mass Loss Rate for K2-22 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.07648

Possibilities for an Aerial Biosphere in Temperate Sub Neptune-Sized Exoplanet Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.07729

Galactic Traversability: A New Concept for Extragalactic SETI
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.07739

ALMA 870 μm continuum observations of HD 100546. Evidence of a giant planet on a wide orbit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.07757

GRAVITY K-band spectroscopy of HD 206893 B: brown dwarf or exoplanet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.08249

A Large-scale Approach to Modelling Molecular Biosignatures: The Diatomics
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.07647

The Noonday Argument: Fine-Graining, Indexicals, and the Nature of Copernican Reasoning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.07738