Interstellar Updates

Galactic Cosmic Ray Shielding Using Spherical Field-Reversed Array of Superconducting Coils
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.A34710

Ultra-thin sail could speed journey to other star systems
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Ultra-thin_sail_could_speed_journey_to_other_star_systems

The Chiral Puzzle of Life
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab8dc6

A Starshot Communication Downlink
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.08940

The Effect of Seafloor Weathering on Planetary Habitability
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.09092

A trampoline effect occurring in the stages of planetary reseeding
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.09360

ARES II: Characterising the Hot Jupiters WASP-127 b, WASP-79 b and WASP-62 b with HST
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.09615

Confirmation of water emission in the dayside spectrum of the ultrahot Jupiter WASP-121b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.09631

An objective Bayesian analysis of life’s early start and our late arrival
https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/05/12/1921655117

Artificial Gravity in Interstellar Travel
https://zenodo.org/record/3747351

Planetary Spin and Obliquity from Mergers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.07718

Atmospheric Escape of Close-in Giants around Hot Stars: Far-Ultraviolet Radiation and Photoelectric Heating Effect
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.08676

Super-Rayleigh Slopes in Transmission Spectra of Exoplanets Generated by Photochemical Haze
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.08880

Space, Time, and Aliens
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-41614-0

Inverse design of lightweight broadband reflector for efficient lightsail propulsion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.04840

A Gas Giant Planet in the OGLE-2006-BLG-284L Stellar Binary System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.07199

PLATON II: New Capabilities And A Comprehensive Retrieval on HD 189733b Transit and Eclipse Data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.09513

A Numerical Method for Determining the Elements of Circumbinary Orbits and Its Application to Circumbinary Planets and the Satellites of Pluto-Charon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.06498

Two examples of how to use observations of terrestrial planets orbiting in temperate orbits around low mass stars to test key concepts of planetary habitability
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.06512

A possible transit of a disintegrating exoplanet in the nearby multiplanet system DMPP-1
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.07086

Advances on studying optical forces: optical manipulation, optical cooling and light induced dynamics
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6463/ab8512

Orbital Stability of Exomoons and Submoons with Applications to Kepler 1625b-I
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab89a7

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. The He I infrared triplet lines in PHOENIX models of M2-3 V stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.06246