Interstellar Updates

Presumptuous Philosopher Proves Panspermia
https://philarchive.org/archive/TURPPP-8

OWL-Moon in 2050 and beyond
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsta.2020.0187

Enshrouding & Star-planet Interactions in Close-orbiting Systems
http://oro.open.ac.uk/73559/1/JDoherty_PhD-thesis_9-10-20.pdf

Observational constraints on the likelihood of 26Al in planet-forming environments
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/12/aa39334-20/aa39334-20.html

Project lyra: Catching 1I/‘Oumuamua–using Nuclear Thermal Rockets
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576520307141

On the Estimation of Circumbinary Orbital Properties
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.13376

WASP-107b’s density is even lower: a case study for the physics of planetary gas envelope accretion and orbital migration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.13444

Non-tidal Coupling of the Orbital and Rotational Motions of Extended Bodies
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.13053

Observability of ultraviolet Ni lines in the atmosphere of transiting Earth‐like planets
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.202013842

HIRES, the high-resolution spectrograph for the ELT
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.12317

Ariel – a window to the origin of life on early earth?
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10686-020-09681-w

A Search for Polarized Thermal Emission from Directly Imaged Exoplanets and Brown Dwarf Companions to Nearby Stars
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abc33d

Critical review of chirality indicators of extraterrestrial life
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1387647320300725

TRAP: A temporal systematics model for improved direct detection of exoplanets at small angular separations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.12311

XAO-assisted coronagraphy with SHARK NIR: from simulations to laboratory tests
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.12899

Unusual chemistry of the C-H-N-O system under pressure and implications for giant planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.12803

Geoforming Mars
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-58876-2

Bridging the Planet Radius Valley: Stellar Clustering as a Key Driver for Turning Sub-Neptunes into Super-Earths
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.11680

Ultra Short Period Planets in K2 III: Neighbors are Common with 12 New Multi-Planet Systems and 26 Newly Validated Planets in Campaigns 0-8, 10
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.11698

The Origin of Chiral Life
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.12145

ESPRESSO high resolution transmission spectroscopy of WASP-76b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.12197

Here’s Looking at You, MKID
https://www.news.ucsb.edu/2020/020103/here-s-looking-you-mkid

Precise radial velocities of giant stars – XIV. Evidence of planetary companions around HD 25723, 17 Sco, 3 Cnc, and 44 UMa
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/12/aa38285-20/aa38285-20.html

Europium as a lodestar: diagnosis of radiogenic heat production in terrestrial exoplanets – Spectroscopic determination of Eu abundances in α Centauri AB
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/12/aa38386-20/aa38386-20.html

Architectures of Exoplanetary Systems. III. Eccentricity and Mutual Inclination Distributions of AMD-stable Planetary Systems
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abba18

An Unusual Transmission Spectrum for the Sub-Saturn KELT-11b Suggestive of a Subsolar Water Abundance
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abc1e9

Is TiO emission present in the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-33b? A reassessment using the improved ExoMol Toto line list
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.10587

Refined Telluric Absorption Correction for Low-Resolution Ground-Based Spectroscopy: Resolution and Radial Velocity Effects in the O2 A-Band for Exoplanets and K I Emission Lines
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.10845

Application of the mixing length theory to assess the generation of melt in internally heated systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.11172

Peeking inside the Black Box: Interpreting Deep Learning Models for Exoplanet Atmospheric Retrievals
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.11284

TOI-519 b: a short-period substellar object around an M dwarf validated using multicolour photometry and phase curve analysis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.11458

Formation and dynamics of water clouds on temperate sub-Neptunes: the example of K2-18b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.11553

The Magellan-TESS Survey I: Survey Description and Mid-Survey Results
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.11560