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Measuring the variability of directly imaged exoplanets using vector Apodizing Phase Plates combined with ground-based differential spectrophotometry
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad249/7000847
VaTEST II: Statistical Validation of 16 Exoplanets of TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.09865
Atmospheric Chemistry of Secondary and Hybrid Atmospheres of Super Earths and Sub-Neptunes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.10217
Simultaneous gas accretion onto a pair of giant planets: Impact on their final mass and on the protoplanetary disk structure
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/01/aa44988-22/aa44988-22.html
ESA-Ariel Data Challenge NeurIPS 2022: Introduction to exo-atmospheric studies and presentation of the Atmospheric Big Challenge (ABC) Database
https://academic.oup.com/rasti/advance-article/doi/10.1093/rasti/rzad001/6998590
Mass Derivation of planets K2-21b and K2-21c from Transit Timing Variations
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad238/6998586
Hubble WFC3 Spectroscopy of the Terrestrial Planets L 98–59 c and d: No Evidence for a Clear Hydrogen Dominated Primary Atmosphere
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1674-4527/acaceb
Unraveling the evolution of hot Jupiter systems under the effect of tidal and magnetic interactions and mass loss
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.09026
Climate and atmospheric models of rocky planets: habitability and observational properties
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.09156
Synthetic Population of Interstellar Objects in the Solar System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.09375
Dynamically Stable Radiation Pressure Propulsion of Flexible Lightsails for Interstellar Exploration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.08894
Black holes as tools for quantum computing by advanced extraterrestrial civilizations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.09575
Autonomous navigation in deep space using optical measurements of unresolved planets and stars
https://dspace.rpi.edu/handle/20.500.13015/6342
The Dynamics of Interstellar Laser Sails
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2023-0552
Examining the orbital decay targets KELT-9 b, KELT-16 b, and WASP-4b, and the transit-timing variations of HD 97658 b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/01/aa44529-22/aa44529-22.html
The study on transiting systems HAT-P-13, HAT-P-16 and WASP-32 through combining ground-based and TESS photometry
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad204/6994539
The Orbital Architecture of Qatar-6: A Fully Aligned Three-body System? https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aca88e
Study of the non-thermal atmospheric loss for exoplanet π Men c
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/proceedings-of-the-international-astronomical-union/article/abs/study-of-the-nonthermal-atmospheric-loss-for-exoplanet-men-c/271869324B25B7ECEDB7A640069B5DFF
Effect of multiple scattering on the Transmission spectra and the Polarization phase curves for Earth-like Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.08487
WASP-39b: exo-Saturn with patchy cloud composition, moderate metallicity, and underdepleted S/O
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.08492
Oxygen depletion in giant planets with different formation histories
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.08616
Chasing nomadic worlds: Opening up the space between the stars
https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2022/12/28/chasing-nomadic-worlds-opening-up-the-space-between-the-stars/
Finding order in planetary architectures
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-023-01895-0
The Dynamics of Interstellar Laser Sails
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2023-0552
Fast Transit Interstellar Probe Mission with Extreme Solar Sailing
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2023-1220
A Distributed Architecture to Accomplish the Solar Gravity Lens Mission
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2023-1967
Warp Factory: A Numerical Toolkit for the Analysis and Optimization of Warp Drive Geometries
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2023-0553
The Mantis network – A standard grid of templates and masks for cross-correlation analyses of ultra-hot Jupiter transmission spectra
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/01/aa42969-21/aa42969-21.html
Removing biases on the density of sub-Neptunes characterised via transit timing variations – Update on the mass-radius relationship of 34 Kepler planets
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/01/aa44132-22/aa44132-22.html
Binary microlensing with plasma environment – Star and planet
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad200/6993080
Detection of Atmospheric Escape from Four Young Mini-Neptunes
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aca75b
A Green Bank Telescope Search for Narrowband Technosignatures between 1.1 and 1.9 GHz During 12 Kepler Planetary Transits
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aca907
TESS-Keck Survey. XIV. Two Giant Exoplanets from the Distant Giants Survey
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aca6ef
The Three Regimes of Atmospheric Evaporation for Super-Earths and Sub-Neptunes
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac9d34
Water Worlds in the Solar System: Exploring Prospects of Extraterrestrial Habitability & Life
https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780323957175/water-worlds-in-the-solar-system
Planet Search with the Keck/NIRC2 Vortex Coronagraph in Ms-band for Vega
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.07714
The geometric albedo of the hot Jupiter HD 187933b measured with CHEOPS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.07731
Biosignature Line Ratios of [P II] in Exoplanetary and Nebular Environments
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.07736
Characterization of a set of small planets with TESS and CHEOPS and an analysis of photometric performance
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.08162
A broadband thermal emission spectrum of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-18b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.08192
Inferring the rate of technosignatures from sixty years of nondetection
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.07165
The Giant Accreting Protoplanet Survey (GAPlanetS): Optimization Techniques for Robust Detections of Protoplanets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aca60d
Revisiting mass-radius relationships for exoplanet populations: a machine learning insight
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.07143
The JWST Early Release Science Program for Direct Observations of Exoplanetary Systems: Best Practices for Data Collection in Cycle 2 and Beyond
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.07199
On computing viscoelastic Love numbers for general planetary models: the \texttt{ALMA3} code
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.07351
Hint of an exocomet transit in the CHEOPS lightcurve of HD 172555
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.07418
Imaging faint sources with the extended solar gravitational lens
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.07495
