Interstellar Updates

Solar Sail Propulsion by 2050: An Enabling Capability for Heliophysics Missions
https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/helio2050/pdf/4009.pdf

NASA’s Space Launch System Capabilities for Ultra-High C3 Missions
https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/helio2050/pdf/4057.pdf

Ectogenesis for survival in deep space and deep time: reply to Gale and Wandel
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/ectogenesis-for-survival-in-deep-space-and-deep-time-reply-to-gale-and-wandel/0F9D05DD3756DA66799658F8959C1775

Near-term self-replicating probes – A concept design
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S009457652100117X

Astrobiology of life on Earth
https://sfamjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1462-2920.15499

Magnetic and tidal migration of close-in planets. Influence of secular evolution on their population
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.01004

TRAPPIST Habitable Atmosphere Intercomparison (THAI) workshop report
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.01091

EXOPLINES: Molecular Absorption Cross-Section Database for Brown Dwarf and Giant Exoplanet Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.00264

KMT-2019-BLG-1715: planetary microlensing event with three lens masses and two source stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.00293

NASA’s Roman Mission Predicted to Find 100,000 Transiting Planets
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/nasa-s-roman-mission-predicted-to-find-thousands-of-transiting-planets

The Dark World: A Tale of WASP-43b in Reflected Light with HST WFC3/UVIS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.16676

(And because it’s April 1)
The Existential Threat of Future Exoplanet Discoveries
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.17079

Unusual polarimetric properties for interstellar comet 2I/Borisov
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-22000-x

The Diversity of Planetary Atmospheric Chemistry
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-021-00810-1

General Observer Programs in Cycle 1 (JWST)
https://www.stsci.edu/jwst/science-execution/approved-programs/cycle-1-go

Hot Jupiters, cold kinematics: High phase space densities of host stars reflect an age bias
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.15823

Tilting Planets During Planet Scattering
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.15843

Calibration of residual aberrations in exoplanet imagers with large numbers of degrees of freedom
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.15844

Spin Dynamics of Extrasolar Giant Planets in Planet-Planet Scattering
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.15902

On the multiscale behaviour of stellar activity and rotation of the planet host Kepler-30
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.15921

The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: MeerKAT Target Selection
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.16250

The influence of surface CO2 condensation on the evolution of warm and cold rocky planets orbiting Sun-like stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.16315

Planet-induced radio emission from the coronae of M dwarfs: the case of Prox Cen and AU Mic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.16318

Life in the Cosmos: From Biosignatures to Technosignatures
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674987579

Compact pebbles and the evolution of volatiles in the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-021-01336-w

Photonic materials for interstellar solar sailing
https://www.osapublishing.org/optica/abstract.cfm?doi=10.1364/OPTICA.417007

A new approach to spectroscopic phase curves: The emission spectrum of WASP-12b observed in quadrature with HST/WFC3
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.15124

Stellar versus Galactic: The intensity of cosmic rays at the evolving Earth and young exoplanets around Sun-like stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.15460

HST PanCET program: Non-detection of atmospheric escape in the warm Saturn-sized planet WASP-29 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.15688

A transmission spectrum of the planet candidate WD 1856+534 b and a lower limit to its mass
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.15720

The Curious Case of Argon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.15071