Interstellar Updates

Case Study of an Interstellar Mission to Luhman 16: Unmanned Interstellar Probe Powered by Gas Core Nuclear Reactors
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337000501_Case_Study_of_an_Interstellar_Mission_to_Luhman_16_Unmanned_Interstellar_Probe_Powered_by_Gas_Core_Nuclear_Reactors

On A Hypothetical Mechanism of Interstellar Life Transfer Trough Nomadic Objects
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11084-020-09591-z

A crucial test for astronomical spectrograph calibration with frequency combs
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1010-x

Kepler-1661 b: A Neptune-sized Kepler Transiting Circumbinary Planet around a Grazing Eclipsing Binar
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab665b

GJ 1252 b: A 1.2 R ⊕ Planet Transiting an M3 Dwarf at 20.4 pc
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab7020

Planetary evolution with atmospheric photoevaporation I. Analytical derivation and numerical study of the evaporation valley and transition from super-Earths to sub-Neptunes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02455

The Impact of Planetary Rotation Rate on the Reflectance and Thermal Emission Spectrum of Terrestrial Exoplanets Around Sun-like Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02549

Occurrence Rates of Planets Orbiting M Stars: Applying ABC to Kepler DR25, Gaia DR2, and 2MASS Data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02573

The continuing search for evidence of tidal orbital decay of hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02606

Non-detection of TiO and VO in the atmosphere of WASP-121b using high-resolution spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02795

Occurrence and Architecture of Kepler Planetary Systems as Functions of Stellar Mass and Effective Temperature
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02840

Unveiling cloudy exoplanets: the influence of cloud model choices on retrieval solutions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02945

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