Interstellar Updates

NASA expects to cover JWST launch slip with budget reserves
https://spacenews.com/nasa-expects-to-cover-jwst-launch-slip-with-budget-reserves/

Alien Civilization Calculator
https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/alien-civilization

Large H2O solubility in dense silica and its implications for the interiors of water-rich planets
https://www.pnas.org/content/117/18/9747

Photochemistry of Anoxic Abiotic Habitable Planet Atmospheres: Impact of New H2O Cross Sections
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab9363

Analysis of HAT-P-23 b, Qatar-1 b, WASP-2 b, and WASP-33 b with an Optimized EXOplanet Transit Interpretation Code
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.13324

Atmospheric Regimes and Trends on Exoplanets and Brown Dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.13384

EarthFinder Probe Mission Concept Study: Characterizing nearby stellar exoplanet systems with Earth-mass analogs for future direct imaging
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.13428

Breakthrough Listen Search for Technosignatures Towards the Kepler-160 System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.13789

TRAPPIST-1: Global Results of the Spitzer Exploration Science Program {\it Red Worlds}
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.13826

Heavy-metal Jupiters by major mergers: metallicity vs. mass for giant planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.12500

Risks for Life on Proxima b from Sterilizing Asteroid Impacts
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.12503

Studies of Exoplanets with Candidate TOI 717.01 and Confirmed HAT-P-3b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.12658

The ARCiS framework for Exoplanet Atmospheres: Modelling Philosophy and Retrieval
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.12821

Exploiting periodic orbits as dynamical clues for Kepler and K2 systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.12895

Exomoon Candidates from Transit Timing Variations: Six Kepler systems with TTVs explainable by photometrically unseen exomoons
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.12997

Updated Deterministic Radiation Transport for Future Deep Space Missions
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2214552420300456

Overview – The Breakthrough Listen Exotic Target Catalog
http://seti.berkeley.edu/exotica/

Searching for the near-infrared counterpart of Proxima c using multi-epoch high-contrast SPHERE data at VLT
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/06/aa37594-20/aa37594-20.html

Hot Exoplanet Atmospheres Resolved with Transit Spectroscopy (HEARTS) IV. A spectral inventory of atoms and molecules in the high-resolution transmission spectrum of WASP-121 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.11308

Distinguishing between wet and dry atmospheres of TRAPPIST-1 e and f
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.11349

Beyond a pale blue dot : how to search for possible bio-signatures on earth-like planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.11451

The impact of exoplanets’ measured parameters on the inferred internal structure
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.12353

Atmospheric Escape From TOI-700 d: Venus versus Earth Analogs
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab982f/meta

CfA Scientists Collaborate on New Study to Search the Universe for Signs of Technological Civilizations
https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2020-12

When more is less: The P‐type binary habitability paradox
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.202013758

Predictions of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Galactic Exoplanet Survey II: Free-Floating Planet Detection Rates
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.10760

Simulations Predicting the Ability of Multi-Color Simultaneous Photometry to Distinguish TESS Candidate Exoplanets from False Positives
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.10765

Spin-orbit alignment of the β Pictoris planetary system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.10784

A Mini-Neptune and a Venus-Zone Planet in the Radius Valley Orbiting the Nearby M2-dwarf TOI-1266: Validation with the Habitable-zone Planet Finder
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.11180

Does intelligent life exist on other planets? Technosignatures may hold new clues
https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/technosignatures-hold-clues-to-advanced-extraterrestrial-life-441472/

Testing Earthlike Atmospheric Evolution on Exo-Earths through Oxygen Absorption: Required Sample Sizes and the Advantage of Age-based Target Selection
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab8fad

Giant Planet Scatterings and Collisions: Hydrodynamics, Merger-Ejection Branching Ratio, and Properties of the Remnants
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.10067

Influence of the Sun-like magnetic cycle on exoplanetary atmospheric escape
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.10634

Search for TiO and Optical Night-side Emission from the Exoplanet WASP-33b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.10743