Interstellar Updates

Our pale blue dot-are there other homes for us in our galaxy?
https://osf.io/634mw/

A photonic solution to interstellar propulsion 1: Hierarchical phase sensing and control for 10^8 optical emitters
https://www.osapublishing.org/josab/upcoming_pdf.cfm?id=414593

A Drake Equation for Alien Artifacts
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2020.2364

Boyajian’s Star B: The Co-moving Companion to KIC 8462852 A
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abdd33

PyLightcurve-torch: a transit modeling package for deep learning applications in PyTorch
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/abe6e8

Insoluble Organic Matter in Chondrites: Archetypal Melanin-Like PAH-Based Multifunctionality at the Origin of Life?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1571064521000130

Transiting Planetary Candidates from the K2 Campaign 0 using the PSF method
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1384107621000336

The Hubble PanCET program: Long-term chromospheric evolution and flaring activity of the M dwarf host GJ 3470
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.09864

Exploring terrestrial lightning parameterisations for exoplanets and brown dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.10155

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs, No evidence for a super-Earth in a 2-day orbit around GJ 1151
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.10216

NGTS 15b, 16b, 17b and 18b: four hot Jupiters from the Next Generation Transit Survey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.10302

Lost in space? Relativistic interstellar navigation using an astrometric star catalogue
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.10389

The GAPS programme at TNG XXX. Atmospheric Rossiter-McLaughlin effect and atmospheric dynamics of KELT-20b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.10395

Lightning on exoplanets and brown dwarfs: Modelling and detection of lightning signatures throughout the electromagnetic spectrum
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.10398

Scheduling strategies for the ESPRESSO follow-up of TESS targets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14008

JWST moving towards October launch
https://spacenews.com/jwst-moving-towards-october-launch/

Exoplanet Detection in Starshade Images
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.09385

Exploiting the transit timing capabilities of Ariel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.09239

Improved Contrast in Images of Exoplanets using Direct SNR Optimization
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.09252

Life as the Only Reason for the Existence of N2-O2-Dominated Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.09264

Water Ice Cloud Variability & Multi-Epoch Transmission Spectra of TRAPPIST-1e
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.09313

Starshade Exoplanet Data Challenge
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.09359

The role of planetary interior in the long-term evolution of atmospheric CO2 on Earth-like exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.09505

HADES RV Programme with HARPS-N at TNG XIII. A sub-Neptune around the M dwarf GJ 720 A
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.09643

1I/‘Oumuamua as an N2 ice fragment of an exo‐Pluto surface: I. Size and Compositional Constraints
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020JE006706

1I/‘Oumuamua as an N2 ice fragment of an exo‐pluto surface II: Generation of N2 ice fragments and the origin of ‘Oumuamua
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020JE006807

Circumbinary habitable zones in the presence of a giant planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.09201

Aurora: A Generalised Retrieval Framework for Exoplanetary Transmission Spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.08600

When the Peas Jump around the Pod: How Stellar Clustering Affects the Observed Correlations between Planet Properties in Multi-Planet Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.08604

Caught in the Act: Core-powered Mass-loss Predictions for Observing Atmospheric Escape
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.08785

To cool is to keep: Residual H/He atmospheres of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.09212

Classification of the Biogenicity of Complex Organic Mixtures for the Detection of Extraterrestrial Life
https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/11/3/234

The Voyage of Metals in the Universe from Cosmological to Planetary Scales: the need for a Very High-Resolution, High Throughput Soft X-ray Spectrometer
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10686-021-09710-2

Water on Hot Rocky Exoplanets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abe7dc

Harnessing the power of CNNs for unevenly-sampled light-curves using Markov Transition Field
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2213133721000159

Broadband stability of the Habitable Zone Planet Finder Fabry-Pérot etalon calibration system: evidence for chromatic variation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.08456

Ariel Planetary Interiors White Paper
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.08481