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September 25, 2020 updates Revised instellation patterns for close-in exoplanets https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa2867/5909055 Integrating Light Curve and Atmospheric Modeling of Transiting Exoplanets https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abaabc Two Planets Straddling the Habitable Zone of The Nearby K dwarf Gl 414A https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344371776_Two_Planets_Straddling_the_Habitable_Zone_of_The_Nearby_K_dwarf_Gl_414A On the Temperature Profiles and Emission Spectra of Mini-Neptune Atmospheres https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.11290 The CHEOPS mission https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.11633 Stability Constrained Characterization of Multiplanet Systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.11831 September 24, 2020 updates Search for He I airglow emission from the hot Jupiter τ Boo b https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/09/aa38412-20/aa38412-20.html The Biological Universe: Life in the Milky Way and Beyond https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/biological-universe/4599E17C7FAAECE4A87038C62039C755 The Origin of Systems of Tightly Packed Inner Planets with Misaligned, Ultra-Short-Period Companions https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.10745 TESS Observations of the Hot Jupiter Exoplanet XO-6b: No Evidence of Transit Timing Variations https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.10781 Launching the VASCO citizen science project https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.10813 September 23, 2020 updates AQUA: A Collection of H2O Equations of State for Planetary Models https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.10098 HORuS transmission spectroscopy of 55 Cnc e https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.10122 Over 1300 new periodic signals detected in the first year of TESS with the weirddetector https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.10232 How many suns are in the sky? A SPHERE multiplicity survey of exoplanet host stars I — Four new close stellar companions including a white dwarf https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.10363 Discovery of a hot, transiting, Earth-sized planet and a second temperate, non-transiting planet around the M4 dwarf GJ 3473 (TOI-488) https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.10432 On The Compatibility of Ground-based and Space-based Data: WASP-96 b, An Example https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.10438 NGTS-12b: A sub-Saturn mass transiting exoplanet in a 7.53 day orbit https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.10620 September 22, 2020 updates In Search for a Planet Better than Earth: Top Contenders for a Superhabitable World https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2019.2161 An ultrahot Neptune in the Neptune desert https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1142-z M51-ULS-1b: The First Candidate for a Planet in an External Galaxy https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.08987 A Significant Increase in Detection of High-Resolution Emission Spectra Using a Three-Dimensional Atmospheric Model of a Hot Jupiter https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.09030 Dynamical Mass Estimates of the β Pictoris Planetary System Through Gaussian Process Stellar Activity Modelling https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.09276 TFAW survey. I. Wavelet-based denoising of K2 light curves. Discovery and validation of two new Earth-sized planets in K2 campaign 1 https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.09285 A numerical method for computing optimum radii of host stars and orbits of planets, with application to Kepler-11, Kepler-90, Kepler-215, HD 10180, HD 34445, and TRAPPIST-1 https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.09732 Theoretical vs. observational uncertainties: composition of giant exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.09746 On the interstellar origin of high-inclination Centaurs https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.09773 Going back to basics: accelerating exoplanet transit modelling using Taylor-series expansion of the orbital motion https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.09965 September 21, 2020 updates π Earth: A 3.14 day Earth-sized Planet from K2’s Kitchen Served Warm by the SPECULOOS Team https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aba95f Circular Binary Star and an Interstellar Interloper: The Analytical Solution https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1384107620303377 MOA-2009-BLG-319Lb: A Sub-Saturn Planet Inside the Predicted Mass Desert https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.08461 ACCESS: Confirmation of no potassium in the atmosphere of WASP-31b https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.08472 RoadRunner: a fast and flexible exoplanet transit model https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.08500 Multi-orbital-phase and multi-band characterization of exoplanetary atmospheres with reflected light spectra https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.08579 Oumuamuas passing through molecular clouds https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.08773 TOI-481 b & TOI-892 b: Two long period hot Jupiters from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.08881 WASP-117 b: an eccentric hot-Saturn as a future complex chemistry laboratory https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.08916 Novel Technosignatures https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.08873 1 2 … 135 Next →
September 25, 2020 updates Revised instellation patterns for close-in exoplanets https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa2867/5909055 Integrating Light Curve and Atmospheric Modeling of Transiting Exoplanets https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abaabc Two Planets Straddling the Habitable Zone of The Nearby K dwarf Gl 414A https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344371776_Two_Planets_Straddling_the_Habitable_Zone_of_The_Nearby_K_dwarf_Gl_414A On the Temperature Profiles and Emission Spectra of Mini-Neptune Atmospheres https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.11290 The CHEOPS mission https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.11633 Stability Constrained Characterization of Multiplanet Systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.11831
September 24, 2020 updates Search for He I airglow emission from the hot Jupiter τ Boo b https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/09/aa38412-20/aa38412-20.html The Biological Universe: Life in the Milky Way and Beyond https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/biological-universe/4599E17C7FAAECE4A87038C62039C755 The Origin of Systems of Tightly Packed Inner Planets with Misaligned, Ultra-Short-Period Companions https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.10745 TESS Observations of the Hot Jupiter Exoplanet XO-6b: No Evidence of Transit Timing Variations https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.10781 Launching the VASCO citizen science project https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.10813
September 23, 2020 updates AQUA: A Collection of H2O Equations of State for Planetary Models https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.10098 HORuS transmission spectroscopy of 55 Cnc e https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.10122 Over 1300 new periodic signals detected in the first year of TESS with the weirddetector https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.10232 How many suns are in the sky? A SPHERE multiplicity survey of exoplanet host stars I — Four new close stellar companions including a white dwarf https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.10363 Discovery of a hot, transiting, Earth-sized planet and a second temperate, non-transiting planet around the M4 dwarf GJ 3473 (TOI-488) https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.10432 On The Compatibility of Ground-based and Space-based Data: WASP-96 b, An Example https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.10438 NGTS-12b: A sub-Saturn mass transiting exoplanet in a 7.53 day orbit https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.10620
September 22, 2020 updates In Search for a Planet Better than Earth: Top Contenders for a Superhabitable World https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2019.2161 An ultrahot Neptune in the Neptune desert https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1142-z M51-ULS-1b: The First Candidate for a Planet in an External Galaxy https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.08987 A Significant Increase in Detection of High-Resolution Emission Spectra Using a Three-Dimensional Atmospheric Model of a Hot Jupiter https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.09030 Dynamical Mass Estimates of the β Pictoris Planetary System Through Gaussian Process Stellar Activity Modelling https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.09276 TFAW survey. I. Wavelet-based denoising of K2 light curves. Discovery and validation of two new Earth-sized planets in K2 campaign 1 https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.09285 A numerical method for computing optimum radii of host stars and orbits of planets, with application to Kepler-11, Kepler-90, Kepler-215, HD 10180, HD 34445, and TRAPPIST-1 https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.09732 Theoretical vs. observational uncertainties: composition of giant exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.09746 On the interstellar origin of high-inclination Centaurs https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.09773 Going back to basics: accelerating exoplanet transit modelling using Taylor-series expansion of the orbital motion https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.09965
September 21, 2020 updates π Earth: A 3.14 day Earth-sized Planet from K2’s Kitchen Served Warm by the SPECULOOS Team https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aba95f Circular Binary Star and an Interstellar Interloper: The Analytical Solution https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1384107620303377 MOA-2009-BLG-319Lb: A Sub-Saturn Planet Inside the Predicted Mass Desert https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.08461 ACCESS: Confirmation of no potassium in the atmosphere of WASP-31b https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.08472 RoadRunner: a fast and flexible exoplanet transit model https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.08500 Multi-orbital-phase and multi-band characterization of exoplanetary atmospheres with reflected light spectra https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.08579 Oumuamuas passing through molecular clouds https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.08773 TOI-481 b & TOI-892 b: Two long period hot Jupiters from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.08881 WASP-117 b: an eccentric hot-Saturn as a future complex chemistry laboratory https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.08916 Novel Technosignatures https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.08873
