Interstellar Updates

Models of Disability as Models of First Contact
https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/11/12/676

Navigation Using Pulsars and Other Variable Celestial Sources
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781119458555.ch52

Persistence of flare-driven atmospheric chemistry on rocky habitable zone worlds
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-01264-1

Determining the true mass of radial-velocity exoplanets with Gaia – Nine planet candidates in the brown dwarf or stellar regime and 27 confirmed planets
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2021/01/aa39168-20/aa39168-20.html

Earth as a Proxy Exoplanet: Deconstructing and Reconstructing Spectrophotometric Light Curves
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.10556

Hydrodynamic Escape of Mineral Atmosphere from Hot Rocky Exoplanet. I. Model Description
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.10605

TESS Asteroseismology of α Mensae: Benchmark Ages for a G7 Dwarf and its M-dwarf Companion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.10797

ogle-2017-blg-1049: another giant planet microlensing event
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.11080

Detectability of biosignatures on LHS 1140 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.11426

Planetary Diversity: Rocky planet processes and their observational signatures
https://iopscience.iop.org/book/978-0-7503-2140-2

Warp Drive and the Kardashev Scale: Our Competence of Travelling Faster than Light
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344848513_Warp_Drive_and_the_Kardashev_Scale_Our_Competence_of_Travelling_Faster_than_Light

When Is Life a Viable Hypothesis? The Case of Venusian Phosphine
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2020.2390

Breakthrough Propulsion Study — Assessing Interstellar Challenges and Prospects
https://jbis.org.uk/paper/2020.73.427

Technological Challenges in Low-Mass Interstellar Probe Communication
https://jbis.org.uk/paper/2020.73.438

Survivability of Metallic Shields for Relativistic Spacecraft
https://jbis.org.uk/paper/2020.73.446

Interstellar Material within the Solar System
https://jbis.org.uk/paper/2020.73.457

Ephemeris Refinement of the Exoplanet Candidate around the White Dwarf WD1856+534
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/abd480

Keys of a Mission to Uranus or Neptune, the Closest Ice Giants
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.09863

The GAPS Programme at TNG. XXX. No detection of reflected light from 51~Peg~b using optical high-resolution spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.10435

Understanding the Impacts of Stellar Companions on Planet Formation and Evolution: A Survey of Stellar and Planetary Companions within 25 pc
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.09190

The Influence of Age on the Relative Frequency of Super-Earths and Sub-Neptunes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.09239

On the Scaling and Spacing of Extra-Solar Multi-Planet Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.09431

The Tierras Observatory: An ultra-precise photometer to characterize nearby terrestrial exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.09744

JPL Work on a Gravitational Lensing Mission
https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2020/12/16/jpl-work-on-a-gravitational-lensing-mission/

Solid tidal friction in multi-layer planets: Application to Earth, Venus, a Super Earth and the TRAPPIST-1 planets – Potential approximation of a multi-layer planet as a homogeneous body
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/12/aa38204-20/aa38204-20.html

The Planet as Exoplanet Analog Spectrograph (PEAS): Design and First-Light
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.08675

Revisiting KELT-19Ab, WASP-156b and WASP-121b in the TESS Era
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.08744

Non-Sinusoidal Transit Timing Variations for the Exoplanet HAT-P-12b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.08820

Update on the Preliminary Design of SCALES: the Santa Cruz Array of Lenslets for Exoplanet Spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.09098

K2 Targets Observed in TESS Cycles 1–3
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/abd39e

A Statistical Estimation of the Occurrence of Extraterrestrial Intelligence in the Milky Way Galaxy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.07902

The search for radio emission from the exoplanetary systems 55 Cancri, υ Andromedae, and τ Boötis using LOFAR beam-formed observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.07926

A Guide to Realistic Uncertainties on Fundamental Properties of Solar-Type Exoplanet Host Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.07957

Effects of Spin-Orbit Resonances and Tidal Heating on the Inner Edge of the Habitable Zone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.07996

RISTRETTO: a pathfinder instrument for exoplanet atmosphere characterization
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.08182

Are There Transit Timing Variations for the Exoplanet Qatar-1b ?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.08184

Estimating low-order aberrations through a Lyot coronagraph with a Zernike wavefront sensor for exoplanet imaging
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.08423

The TESS-Keck Survey II: An Ultra-Short Period Rocky Planet and its Siblings Transiting the Galactic Thick-Disk Star TOI-561
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.03071