Interstellar Updates

A probabilistic analysis of the Fermi paradox in terms of the Drake formula: the role of the L factor
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa512/5741733

Grand challenges for nanophotonics: Steering and riding light
https://authors.library.caltech.edu/101355/

Energy-sensitive Detectors for Astronomy: Past, Present and Future
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1387647320300038

High-Energy and High-Quality Ion beams in Light Sail Acceleration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.11563

The interior and atmosphere of the habitable-zone exoplanet K2-18b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.11115

Fingerprints of giant planets in the composition of solar twins
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.11135

Can planetary rings explain the extremely low density of HIP 41378f?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.11422

Searching the Entirety of Kepler Data. I. 17 New Planet Candidates Including One Habitable Zone World
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab6cf8

Cloud Atlas: Weak Color Modulations Due to Rotation in the Planetary-mass Companion GU Psc b and 11 Other Brown Dwarfs
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab5f59

Circumbinary Planets — The Next Steps
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.10492

The GAPS Programme at TNG XXI — A GIARPS case-study of known young planetary candidates: confirmation of HD 285507 b and refutation of AD Leo b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.10562

Is there NaI in the atmosphere of HD 209458b? Effect of the centre-to-limb variation and Rossiter-McLaughlin effect in transmission spectroscopy studies
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.10595

Energy Optimization in Extrasolar Planetary Systems: The Transition from Peas-in-a-Pod to Runaway Growth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.10661

Fourth-order Coronagraph for High-Contrast Imaging of Exoplanets with Off-axis Segmented Telescopes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.10762

Spatial distribution of exoplanet candidates based on Kepler and Gaia data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.10823

TRAPPIST-1 Habitable Atmosphere Intercomparison (THAI). Motivations and protocol version 1.0
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.10950

EDEN: Sensitivity Analysis and Transiting Planet Detection Limits for Nearby Late Red Dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.10017

Distinguishing multicellular life on exoplanets by testing Earth as an exoplanet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.10368

Extrasolar enigmas: from disintegrating exoplanets to exoasteroids
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.10370

The winter-over syndrome and the potential lessons for space travel
https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/handle/10092/18567

Third Displacement: Cosmobiology, Cosmolocality, Cosmosocioecology
https://www.amazon.com/Third-Displacement-Cosmobiology-Cosmolocality-Cosmosocioecology-ebook/dp/B084T5QSDM/

Chemical Diversity of Super-Earths As a Consequence of Formation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.09042

Fly-by encounters between two planetary systems II: Exploring the interactions of diverse planetary system architectures
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.09271

Giant planet swaps during close stellar encounters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08366

Linking the formation and fate of exo-Kuiper belts within solar system analogues
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08372

Detection of Na, K, and Hα absorption in the atmosphere of WASP-52b using ESPRESSO
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08379

The Dark Planets of the WASP-47 Planetary System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08381

Stabilization of dayside surface liquid water via tropopause cold trapping on arid slowly rotating tidally locked planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08600

Coherent radio emission from a quiescent red dwarf indicative of star-planet interaction
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08727

Observational Constraints on the Great Filter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08776

A crucial test for astronomical spectrograph calibration with frequency combs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08868