Can Well-sampled Phase Curves Be Used to Infer Asteroid Spectral Features? by Zachary Murray

“…The first is primarily concerned with carefully deriving phase curve parameters using a combined data set from several different sources, including observations from Gaia, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, Palomar Transient Factory, Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, and Asteroid Lightcurve Data Exchange Format database using an ellipsoidal model that can correct for rotational and apparitional effects. …”
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Detectability of Self-lensing Flares of White Dwarfs with Compact Companions by Guy Nir, Joshua S. Bloom

“…We estimate 0.3, 3 and 247 double white dwarf systems could be detected by Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, Zwicky Transient Facility, and LSST, respectively. …”
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Sporadic Dips from Extended Debris Transiting the Metal-rich White Dwarf SBSS 1232+563 by J. J. Hermes, Joseph A. Guidry, Zachary P. Vanderbosch, Mariona Badenas-Agusti, Siyi Xu, Malia L. Kao, Antonio C. Rodriguez, Keith Hawkins

“…In-transit follow-up shows additional short-timescale (minutes- to hours-long) dimming events. Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite photometry suggests a coherent 14.842 hr signal that could represent the dominant orbital period of debris. …”
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Classification of Periodic Variable Stars from TESS by Xinyi Gao, Xiaodian Chen, Shu Wang, Jifeng Liu

“…As an all-sky transit survey, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) plays an important role in detecting low-amplitude variable stars. …”
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Time-series Spectroscopy and TESS Photometry of the Oscillating Eclipsing Algol System V389 Cassiopeiae by Pakakaew Rittipruk, Kyeongsoo Hong, Jae Woo Lee, Anirut Phriksee, Supachai Awiphan, Jae-Rim Koo, Jang-Ho Park

“…We present the results from a detailed analysis of our time-series spectroscopic observations and the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) photometric data of the eclipsing binary V389 Cas. …”
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Earth Detecting Earth: At What Distance Could Earth’s Constellation of Technosignatures Be Detected with Present-day Technology? by Sofia Z. Sheikh, Macy J. Huston, Pinchen Fan, Jason T. Wright, Thomas Beatty, Connor Martini, Ravi Kopparapu, Adam Frank

“…This work highlights the growing range of ways that exoplanet technosignatures may be expressed, the growing complexity and visibility of the human impact upon our planet, and the continued importance of the radio frequencies in SETI.…”
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High-time-cadence Spectroscopy and Photometry of Stellar Flares on M dwarf YZ Canis Minoris with the Seimei Telescope and TESS. I. Discovery of Rapid and Short-duration Prominence... by Yuto Kajikiya, Kosuke Namekata, Yuta Notsu, Hiroyuki Maehara, Bunei Sato, Daisaku Nogami

“…We conducted spectroscopic monitoring observations of the active M dwarf YZ Canis Minoris with an ∼1 minute time cadence using the Seimei telescope, simultaneously with the optical photometric observations by Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. We detected 27 H α flares with H α energies ranging from 1.7 × 10 ^29 to 3.8 × 10 ^32 erg and durations from 8 to 319 minutes. …”
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Photometric Analysis of the Cataclysmic Variable Star LT Eri by Qi-Bin Sun, Sheng-Bang Qian, Li-Ying Zhu, Qin-Mei Li, Fu-Xing Li, Min-Yu Li, Ping Li

“…This study investigates its outbursts, negative superhumps (NSHs), tilted-disk precession, eclipse-depth variations, and observed minus calculated ( O – C ) behavior, using photometric data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), the Zwicky Transient Facility, the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae, and the American Association of Variable Star Observers. …”
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Asymmetries and Circumstellar Interaction in the Type II SN 2024bch by Jennifer E. Andrews, Manisha Shrestha, K. Azalee Bostroem, Yize Dong, Jeniveve Pearson, M. M. Fausnaugh, David J. Sand, S. Valenti, Aravind P. Ravi, Emily Hoang, Griffin Hosseinzadeh, Ilya Ilyin, Daryl Janzen, M. J. Lundquist, Nicolás Meza, Nathan Smith, Saurabh W. Jha, Moira Andrews, Joseph Farah, Estefania Padilla Gonzalez, D. Andrew Howell, Curtis McCully, Megan Newsome, Craig Pellegrino, Giacomo Terreran, Patrick Wiggins, Brian Hsu, Collin T. Christy, Noah Franz, Xiaofeng Wang, Jialian Liu, Liyang Chen

“…High-cadence photometry from the ground and Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite show that the SN brightened quickly and reached a peak M _V  ~ −17.8 mag within a week of explosion, and late-time photometry suggests a ^56 Ni mass of 0.050 M _⊙ . …”
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Astrobiology with Robotic Telescopes at CAB by Luis Cuesta, M. Teresa Eibe, Aurora Ullán, Antonio Pérez-Verde, Jorge Navas

“…The key objectives of RTRCAB are the identification of new exoplanets and especially the characterization of the known exoplanets by observing photometric and systematic monitoring of their transits. …”
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Planetary Sciences, Geodynamics, Impacts, Mass Extinctions, and Evolution: Developments and Interconnections by Jaime Urrutia-Fucugauchi, Ligia Pérez-Cruz

“…Planetary missions and enhanced exoplanets detection capabilities, with discovery of a wide range of exoplanets and multiple systems, have renewed attention to models of planetary system formation and planet’s characteristics, Earth’s interior, and geodynamics, highlighting the need to better understand the Earth system, processes, and spatio-temporal scales. …”
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Chemical Fingerprints of M Dwarfs: High-resolution Spectroscopy on 31 M Dwarfs with SPIRou by Farbod Jahandar, René Doyon, Étienne Artigau, Neil J. Cook, Charles Cadieux, Jean-François Donati, Nicolas B. Cowan, Ryan Cloutier, Stefan Pelletier, Alan Alves-Brito, Jorge H. C. Martins, Hsien Shang, Andrés Carmona

“…We present elemental abundances for up to 10 different elements, including refractory elements such as Si, Mg, and Fe, which are important for modeling the interior structure of exoplanets. In binary systems, we find an average [Fe/H] of −0.15 ± 0.08 for M dwarfs, marginally lower than the reported metallicity of −0.06 ± 0.18 for the FGK primaries from A. …”
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Ultraviolet Photometry and Habitable Zones of over 2700 Planet-hosting Stars by Xue Li, Song Wang, Henggeng Han, Jifeng Liu

“…The ongoing discovery of exoplanets has sparked significant interest in finding suitable worlds that could potentially support life. …”
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Master Robotic Net by Vladimir Lipunov, Victor Kornilov, Evgeny Gorbovskoy, Nikolaj Shatskij, Dmitry Kuvshinov, Nataly Tyurina, Alexander Belinski, Alexander Krylov, Pavel Balanutsa, Vadim Chazov, Artem Kuznetsov, Petr Kortunov, Anatoly Sankovich, Andrey Tlatov, A. Parkhomenko, Vadim Krushinsky, Ivan Zalozhnyh, A. Popov, Taisia Kopytova, Kirill Ivanov, Sergey Yazev, Vladimir Yurkov

“…Such a survey will make it possible to address a number of fundamental problems: search for dark energy via the discovery and photometry of supernovae (including SNIa), search for exoplanets, microlensing effects, discovery of minor bodies in the Solar System, and space-junk monitoring. …”
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Why the Real Atmosphere Has More Energy than Climate Models: Implications for Ground-Based Telescopes by Adrian F. Tuck

“…Some of the considerations will apply to the atmospheres of exoplanets with regard to photochemistry and signatures of life.…”
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From light sensing to adaptive learning: hafnium diselenide reconfigurable memcapacitive devices in neuromorphic computing by Bashayr Alqahtani, Hanrui Li, Abdul Momin Syed, Nazek El-Atab

“…The reconfigurability and multifunctionality of MOSCap were used to integrate the device into a leaky integrate-and-fire neuron model within a spiking neural network to dynamically adjust firing patterns based on light stimuli and detect exoplanets through variations in light intensity.…”
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Research on the Earth Reflected Solar Spectral Radiation Observation System Based on the Lagrange L1 Point of the Earth–Moon System by Cong Zhao, Kai Wang, Shuqi Li, Xin Ye, Xiaolong Yi, Ye Jiang, Wei Fang

“…The ESROS will provide crucial data support for researching global energy balance, climate change, and the spectral characteristics of exoplanets, facilitating planetary science and the exploration of extraterrestrial life.…”
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Shedding Light on the Origin of the Broken Misaligned Circumtriple Disk around GW Ori by Jeremy L. Smallwood, Stephen H. Lubow, Rebecca G. Martin, Rebecca Nealon

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Potential Technosignature from Anomalously Low Deuterium/Hydrogen in Planetary Water Depleted by Nuclear Fusion Technology by David C. Catling, Joshua Krissansen-Totton, Tyler D. Robinson

“…These are vibrational O–D stretching at 3.7 μ m in transmission spectroscopy of Earth-like worlds, ∼1.5 μ m (in the wings of the 1.4 μ m water band) in the shorter near-infrared for direct imaging by the Habitable Worlds Observatory, and ∼7.5-8 μ m (in the wings of the broad 6.3 μ m bending vibration of water) for concepts like the Large Interferometer for Exoplanets.…”
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Observational Signatures of Dust Traffic Jams in Polar-aligning Circumbinary Disks by Jeremy L. Smallwood, Rebecca Nealon, Hsi-Wei Yen, Christophe Pinte, Cristiano Longarini, Hossam Aly, Min-Kai Lin

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