Interstellar Updates

Breakthrough Listen’s Search for Intelligent Life (SETI) Releases Unprecedented Data Survey of Milky Way’s Galactic Center, Earth Transit Zone and Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov
https://breakthroughinitiatives.org/news/28

Coherent radio emission from a quiescent red dwarf indicative of star–planet interaction
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1011-9

Advances in Mach Effect Gravitational Assist (MEGA) Drive Experimentation
http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2019.72.376

NRAO, SETI Institute Agree on New Research Programs
https://public.nrao.edu/news/nrao-seti-institute-new-research/

Extrasolar Terrestrial Planet Characterization and the Search for Life
https://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2020/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/25450

Hunting for Technosignatures
https://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2020/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/25448

When is the Evidence Sufficient to Claim the Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life?
https://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2020/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/25451

New aluminium hydroxide at multimegabar pressures: Implications for water reservoirs in deep planetary interiors
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103518306274

COol Companions ON Ultrawide orbiTS (COCONUTS). I. A High-Gravity T4 Benchmark around an Old White Dwarf and A Re-Examination of the Surface-Gravity Dependence of the L/T Transition
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.05723

Planetary Architectures in Interacting Stellar Environments
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.05727

HATS-47b, HATS-48Ab, HATS-49b and HATS-72b: Four Warm Giant Planets Transiting K Dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.05776

Evidence for Spin-orbit Alignment in the TRAPPIST-1 System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.05892

The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: A 3.95-8.00 GHz Search for Radio Technosignatures in the Restricted Earth Transit Zone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.06162

Evaluating the Effect of Four Immeasurable Parameters Included in a Latitudinal Energy Balance Model on the Habitability of Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.06907

The Transit and Light Curve Modeller
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa349/5731867

Outer Planet Single-transit Detections with LSST
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.05453

Precision and consistency of astrocombs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.05182

Irradiated ocean planets bridge super-Earth and sub-Neptune populations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.05243

One Planet or Two Planets? The Ultra-sensitive Extreme-magnification Microlensing Event KMT-2019-BLG-1953
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.05310

Effects of Mirror Seeing on High-Contrast Adaptive Optics Instruments
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.04649

The TRAPPIST-1 JWST Community Initiative
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.04798

Prospects for Interstellar Propulsion
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20200000759&hterms=Prospects+Interstellar+Propulsion

A Sub-Neptune-sized Planet Transiting the M2.5 Dwarf G 9-40: Validation with the Habitable-zone Planet Finder
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab5f15

Advances in Deep Space Exploration via Simulators & Deep Learning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.04051

What is Paradoxical About ‘Fermi’s Paradox’?
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10441-020-09376-x

Improving transit characterisation with Gaussian process modelling of stellar variability
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/02/aa36086-19/aa36086-19.html

Atmospheric Erosion by Giant Impacts onto Terrestrial Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02977

Propulsion of Spacecrafts to Relativistic Speeds Using Natural Astrophysical Sources
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.03247

Implications of Abiotic Oxygen Buildup for Earth-like Complex Life
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.03248

ExoSim: the Exoplanet Observation Simulator
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.03739

Radio eclipses of exoplanets by the winds of their host stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.03901

HD 191939: Three Sub-Neptunes Transiting a Sun-like Star Only 54 pc Away
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.03958