Interstellar Updates

Radiation Effects on Astronautic Fertility in Space: Deep Space Policy
https://www.sciencepolicyjournal.org/article_1038126_jspg_16_01_01.html

Pulsar Positioning System: A quest for evidence of extraterrestrial engineering
https://www.academia.edu/31878996/Pulsar_Positioning_System_A_quest_for_evidence_of_extraterrestrial_engineering

Are we going to Alpha Centauri?
https://scivpro.com/manuscript/10_32386_scivpro_000019/

E|A|S (Evolving Asteroid Starships)
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-030-33471-0_67

Tidal evolution of exoplanetary systems hosting Potentially Habitable Exoplanets. The cases of LHS-1140 b-c and K2-18 b-c
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa1110/5825369

The Extended Kardashev Scale
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab792b

Astrophysical Insights into Radial Velocity Jitter from an Analysis of 600 Planet-search Stars
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab855a

Light-induced propulsion of graphene-on-grid sails in microgravity
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576520301582

Radiation conditions in relativistic interstellar flight
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.10079

The multi-planet system TOI-421 — A warm Neptune and a super puffy mini-Neptune transiting a G9 V star in a visual binary
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.10095

ALMA 0.88 mm Survey of Disks around Planetary-mass Companions
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab818c

The Impact of Planetary Rotation Rate on the Reflectance and Thermal Emission Spectrum of Terrestrial Exoplanets around Sunlike Stars
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab83ec

Assessment of Supervised Machine Learning for Atmospheric Retrieval of Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.10755

TESS unveils the phase curve of WASP-33b. Characterization of the planetary atmosphere and the pulsations from the star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.10767

TESS discovery of a super-Earth and three sub-Neptunes hosted by the bright, Sun-like star HD 108236
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.11314

Neutral Iron Emission Lines From The Day-side Of KELT-9b — The GAPS Programme With HARPS-N At TNG XX
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.11335

What’s in a name: the etymology of astrobiology
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.11312

An interstellar origin for high-inclination Centaurs
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/494/2/2191/5822028

Why Is it So Cold in Here? Explaining the Cold Temperatures Retrieved from Transmission Spectra of Exoplanet Atmospheres
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab8238

Radial-velocity variations due to meridional flows in the Sun and solar-type stars: impact on exoplanet detectability
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.10611

New HST data and modeling reveal a massive planetesimal collision around Fomalhaut
https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/04/15/1912506117

The carbon monoxide-rich interstellar comet 2I/Borisov
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1095-2

Unusually high CO abundance of the first active interstellar comet
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1087-2

Focal Plane Wavefront Sensing with the FAST TGV Coronagraph
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ab84c9

Searching for the near infrared counterpart of Proxima c using multi-epoch high contrast SPHERE data at VLT
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.06685

High-resolution Transmission Spectroscopy of MASCARA-2 b with EXPRES
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.08415

OGLE-2017-BLG-0406: Spitzer Microlens Parallax Reveals Saturn-mass Planet orbiting M-dwarf Host in the Inner Galactic Disk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.09067

WASP-4 transit timing variation from a comprehensive set of 129 transits
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.09109

Cheops observes its first exoplanets and is ready for science
http://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Cheops/Cheops_observes_its_first_exoplanets_and_is_ready_for_science

Mitigating flicker noise in high-precision photometry I. Characterization of the noise structure, impact on the inferred transit parameters, and predictions for CHEOPS observations
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/04/aa37412-19/aa37412-19.html

The atmospheres of rocky exoplanets I. Outgassing of common rock and the stability of liquid water
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/04/aa36614-19/aa36614-19.html

Exoplanet System Kepler-2 with comparisons to Kepler-1 and 13
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.07971

Inertial modes of a freely rotating ellipsoidal planet and their relation to nutations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.08218

Frequency Modulation of Directly Imaged Exoplanets: Geometric Effect as a Probe of Planetary Obliquity
https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.02898

Detectability of Molecular Signatures on TRAPPIST-1e through Transmission Spectroscopy Simulated for Future Space-Based Observatories
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.01338