Interstellar Updates

Deep Space (Treaty) Exploration: Reviving Today’s Obsolete Space Treaties
https://digitalcommons.law.msu.edu/ilr/vol28/iss1/1/

How the Privatization of Space Exploration Will Positively Effect Humanity
https://jenacrangnow.wordpress.com/2019/01/06/the-privatization-of-space-exploration/

Artificial versus Biological Intelligence in the Cosmos: Clues from a Stochastic Analysis of the Drake Equation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.11644

Can polarity-inverted membranes self-assemble on Titan?
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/4/eaax0272

Orbit classification in exoplanetary systems
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/02/aa37224-19/aa37224-19.html

Precision and consistency of astrocombs
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa356/5729051

Doppler shifts and spectral line profile changes in the starlight scattered from an exoplanet
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa268/5729057

On the impact of tides on the transit-timing fits to the TRAPPIST-1 system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02015

First SETI Observations with China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02130

The Bimodal Distribution in Exoplanet Radii: Considering Varying Core Compositions and H2 Envelop Sizes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02166

Surfing a Supernova
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/surfing-a-supernova/

The origin of life as a planetary phenomenon
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/6/eaax3419

Effects of an intrinsic magnetic field on ion loss from ancient Mars based on multispecies MHD simulations
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2019JA026945

A Framework for Optimizing Exoplanet Target Selection for the James Webb Space Telescope
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.01495

Three planets transiting the evolved star EPIC 249893012: a hot 8.8-M⊕ super-Earth and two warm 14.7 and 10.2-M⊕ sub-Neptunes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.01755

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Characterization of the nearby ultra-compact multiplanetary system YZ Ceti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.01772

Exo-MerCat: a merged exoplanet catalog with Virtual Observatory connection
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.01834

Immune recognition of putative alien microbial structures: Host–pathogen interactions in the age of space travel
https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1008153

Light Sailing into the Great Beyond
https://www.osapublishing.org/opn/abstract.cfm?uri=opn-31-2-30

Traversable wormholes in R+αRn gravity
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7587-5

The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: Observations of 1327 Nearby Stars Over 1.10–3.45 GHz
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab65f1

The Design of a Space-based Observation and Tracking System for Interstellar Objects
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.00984

A comparison of exoplanet spectroscopic retrieval tools
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.01063

Three-dimensional modelling of absorption by various species for hot Jupiter HD 209458b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.01198

Effects of Radiation Pressure on the Evaporative Wind of HD 209458b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.00075

Revisited mass-radius relations for exoplanets below 120 M⊕
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/02/aa36482-19/aa36482-19.html

Lens Flare: Magnified X-Ray Binaries as Passive Beacons in SETI
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.00128

triceratops: A Tool for Rapid Validation of TESS Objects of Interest and Application to 424 Planet Candidates
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.00691

Understanding and Mitigating Biases when Studying Inhomogeneous Emission Spectra with JWST
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.00773

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Dynamical characterization of the multiple planet system GJ 1148 and prospects of habitable exomoons around GJ 1148 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.00906

A Machian wave effect in conformal, scalar–tensor gravitational theory
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10714-019-2547-9

Inertia and propulsion in general relativity: a reply to rodal
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10714-019-2654-7

Scaling K2. I. Revised Parameters for 222,088 K2 Stars and a K2 Planet Radius Valley at 1.9 R⊕
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.11511

Scaling K2. II. Assembly of a Fully Automated C5 Planet Candidate Catalog Using EDI-Vetter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.11515

Interstellar comet 2I/Borisov as seen by MUSE: C2, NH2 and red CN detections
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.11605