Dynamics of the Beta Pictoris planetary system and its falling evaporating bodies
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.00715
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January 01, 2024 updates
The First Steps of Life
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781394264155
Improving the visibility and citability of exoplanet research software
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.17297
Discovery of Small Ultra-short-period Planets Orbiting KG Dwarfs in Kepler Survey Using GPU Phase Folding and Deep Learning Detection System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.17382
December 29, 2023 updates
Detecting Biosignatures in Nearby Rocky Exoplanets Using High-contrast Imaging and Medium-resolution Spectroscopy with the Extremely Large Telescope
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad109e
High-resolution Transmission Spectroscopy of Ultrahot Jupiter WASP–33b with NEID
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad10a3
SETI at FAST in China
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.16847
December 28, 2023 updates
The Fatal Absence of Evidence for Extraterrestrial Intelligence and its Consequence for Humanity
https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/uckfw
Is the apparent absence of extraterrestrial technological civilizations down to the zoo hypothesis or nothing?
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-023-02134-2
Sustained and comparative habitability beyond Earth
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-023-02158-8
Is astrobiology serious science?
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-023-02165-9
Mitigating astrometric bias in barycentric correction with PEXO
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad3796/7492279
The Kepler Giant Planet Search. I. A Decade of Kepler Planet-host Radial Velocities from W. M. Keck Observatory
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/ad0cab
Planet-Driven Scatterings of Planetesimals Into a Star: Probability, Timescale and Applications
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.10326
December 27, 2023 updates
Breakthrough Sun Diving: The Rectilinear Option
https://bis-space.com/shop/product/jbis-076-08-0283/
Day–Night Transport-induced Chemistry and Clouds on WASP-39b: Gas-phase Composition
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad1405
The Role of Giant Impacts in Planet Formation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.15018
Large planets may not form fractionally large moons
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.15050
A search for auroral radio emission from βPictoris b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.15176