Interstellar Updates

Generic warp drives violate the null energy condition
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.03079

The Pyrat Bay Framework for Exoplanet Atmospheric Modeling: A Population Study of Hubble/WFC3 Transmission Spectra
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab1405/6276749

Terminus: A Versatile Simulator for Space-based Telescopes
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abdf4d

Role of Surface Gravity Waves in Aquaplanet Ocean Climates
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020MS002202

Interplanetary and Interstellar Direct Kinetic Nuclear Drive
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/351249682_Interplanetary_and_Interstellar_Direct_Kinetic_Nuclear_Drive

Ground-Based Transmission Spectroscopy with VLT FORS2: Evidence for faculae and clouds in the optical spectrum of the warm Saturn WASP-110b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.06522

Millisecond Exoplanet Imaging, I: Method and Simulation Results
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.06589

Millisecond Exoplanet Imaging, II: Regression Equations and Technical Discussion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.06590

Improving exoplanet detection capabilities with the false inclusion probability. Comparison with other detection criteria in the context of radial velocities
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.06995

The effect of post-Newtonian spin precessions on the evolution of exomoons’ obliquity
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.14245

Extrasolar Object Interceptor and Sample Return Enabled by Compact, Ultra Power Dense Radioisotope Batteries
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2021_Phase_I/Extrasolar_Object_Interceptor_and_Sample_Return/

A critical assessment of the applicability of the energy-limited approximation for estimating exoplanetary mass-loss rates
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.05858

Minimal Differential Lateral Acceleration Configurations for Starshade Stationkeeping in Exoplanet Direct Imaging
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.05898

HADES RV programme with HARPS-N at TNG XIV. A candidate super-Earth orbiting the M-dwarf GJ 9689 with a period close to half the stellar rotation period
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.06155

How Close are Compact Multi-Planet Systems to the Stability Limit?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.06338

Longitudinally Resolved Spectral Retrieval (ReSpect) of WASP-43b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.06353

A one-armed CNN for exoplanet detection from light curves
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.06292

Planet Hunters TESS III: Two transiting planets around the bright G dwarf HD 152843
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab1253/6274703

Super-Jupiters Migrate Outward
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.05277

Reconfiguring SETI in the microbial context: Panspermia as a solution to Fermi’s paradox
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0303264721000964

The New Generation Planetary Population Synthesis (NGPPS). IV. Planetary systems around low-mass stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.04596

Friends and Foes: Conditional Occurrence Rates of Exoplanet Companions and their Impact on Radial Velocity Follow-up Surveys
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.04703

EXOPLANETS AND SPACECRAFT Exercises in astronomy and space exploration for high school students
http://fiztan.phd.elte.hu/files/written_mat/astronomy_ex.pdf

Relativistically into finance
https://www.repository.utl.pt/handle/10400.5/21262

Venus, an Astrobiology Target
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2020.2268

Experimental Determination of Mantle Solidi and Melt Compositions for Two Likely Rocky Exoplanet Compositions
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020JE006731

Long Period Jovian Tilts the Orbits of Two sub-Neptunes Relative to Stellar Spin Axis in Kepler-129
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.03446

The orbital evolution of resonant chains of exoplanets incorporating circularisation produced by tidal interaction with the central star with application to the HD 158259 and EPIC 245950175 systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.03652

Systematic search for long-term transit duration changes in Kepler transiting planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.04318

An interstellar communication method: system design and observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.03727

The Drake Equation at 60: Reconsidered and Abandoned
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.03984