Interstellar Updates

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

A Machian wave effect in conformal, scalar–tensor gravitational theory
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10714-019-2547-9

Inertia and propulsion in general relativity: a reply to rodal
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10714-019-2654-7

Scaling K2. I. Revised Parameters for 222,088 K2 Stars and a K2 Planet Radius Valley at 1.9 R⊕
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.11511

Scaling K2. II. Assembly of a Fully Automated C5 Planet Candidate Catalog Using EDI-Vetter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.11515

Interstellar comet 2I/Borisov as seen by MUSE: C2, NH2 and red CN detections
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.11605

MOVES III. Simultaneous X-ray and ultraviolet observations unveiling the variable environment of the hot Jupiter HD 189733b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.11048

TraMoS V. Updated ephemeris and multi-epoch monitoring of the hot Jupiters WASP-18Ab, WASP-19b, and WASP-77Ab
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.11112

Implications of three-dimensional chemical transport in hot Jupiter atmospheres: results from a consistently coupled chemistry-radiation-hydrodynamics model
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.11444