Interstellar Updates

NASA confirms JWST will miss March 2021 launch date
https://spacenews.com/nasa-confirms-jwst-will-miss-march-2021-launch-date/

Information Content of JWST NIRSpec Transmission Spectra of Warm Neptunes
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab9176

Coupled Thermal and Compositional Evolution of Photoevaporating Planet Envelopes
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab873f

Curvature Invariants for Wormholes and Warped Spacetimes
https://search.proquest.com/openview/cb85487fa25cb3423e71120df0170053/1

Using the Interstellar Probe to Decipher Exoplanet Signatures of Our Planets from the Very Local Interstellar Medium
https://surveygizmoresponseuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/fileuploads/15647/4139225/196-8e2d83e91e913e0e21828742ad517df7_ISP_Exoplanet_White_Paper_v2.pdf

Assessing Spectra and Thermal Inversions due to TiO in Hot Jupiter Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.04807

Indications for very high metallicity and absence of methane for the eccentric exo-Saturn WASP-117b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.05382

Planetary thermal evolution models with tectonic transitions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.05654

Architectures of Exoplanetary Systems. II: An Increase in Inner Planetary System Occurrence Towards Later Spectral Types for Kepler’s FGK Dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.04348

Mineral dust increases the habitability of terrestrial planets but confounds biomarker detection
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-16543-8

Sensitivity of the Atmospheric Water Cycle within the Habitable Zone of a Tidally Locked, Earth-like Exoplanet
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab9102

Inertial Modes of a Freely Rotating Ellipsoidal Planet and Their Relation to Nutations
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ab93c8

Comparing Approximate Bayesian Computation with the Poisson-Likelihood Method for Exoplanet Occurrence Rates
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab9a3c

Radioprotective effects of induced astronaut torpor and advanced propulsion systems during deep space travel
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2214552420300407

Planetary mass-radius relations across the galaxy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.03601

Project Lyra: Catching 1I/’Oumuamua — Using Laser Sailcraft in 2030
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.03891

Effects of Thermal Emission on the Transmission Spectra of Hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.04175

Narrow-Band Signal Localization for SETI on Noisy Synthetic Spectrogram Data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.04362

No evidence for interstellar planetesimals trapped in the Solar System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.04534

A Complex Life Habitable Zone Based On Lipid Solubility Theory
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-64436-z

Transit least-squares survey – III. A 1.9 R⊕ transit candidate in the habitable zone of Kepler-160 and a nontransiting planet characterized by transit-timing variations
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/06/aa36929-19/aa36929-19.html

An objective Bayesian analysis of life’s early start and our late arrival
https://www.pnas.org/content/117/22/11995

Atmospheric Escape Processes and Planetary Atmospheric Evolution
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2019JA027639

Ignition and burn in a hybrid nuclear fuel for a pulsed rocket engine
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576520302083

Transiting Exoplanet Discovery Using Machine Learning Techniques: A Survey
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12145-020-00464-7

Exoplanet Detection and Its Dependence on Stochastic Sampling of the Stellar Initial Mass Function
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab8e39

WISEA J083011.95+283716.0: A Missing Link Planetary-mass Object
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab8d25

Transit Analysis of Exoplanets TrES-5 b and WASP-43 b with the EXOplanet Transit Interpretation Code
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab98f5

Exoplanet secondary atmosphere loss and revival
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.02589