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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
Direct Measurement of Radiation Pressure Forces on Membrane Lightsails
https://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR24/Session/Y05.9
Analysis of the Use of Different Backing Layer Materials in the Design of Alpha-Decay Sails for Interplanetary and Interstellar Travel
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00295639.2023.2278931
The impact of spectral line wing cut-off: Recommended standard method with application to MAESTRO opacity database
https://academic.oup.com/rasti/advance-article/doi/10.1093/rasti/rzad058/7492803
Tidal Dissipation in Stably Stratified and Semiconvective Regions of Rotating Giant Planets: Incorporating Coriolis Forces
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad0a90
Degenerate Interpretations of O 3 Spectral Features in Exoplanet Atmosphere Observations Due to Stellar UV Uncertainties: A 3D Case Study with TRAPPIST-1 e
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad0381
Retrograde Ring Formed Around Eccentric Extrasolar Giant Planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.13786
High-Resolution Imaging of a TESS Control Sample: Verifying a Deficit of Close-In Stellar Companions to Exoplanet Host Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.14094
Nanophotonic designs for light-driven propulsion and space exploration
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1d88x3gf
Unraveling the complex inventory of biorelevant organics in the plumes of icy moons
https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2319167120
Exoplanet Radio Emission Detection: Principles and Approaches
https://drpress.org/ojs/index.php/HSET/article/view/12901
Reflection from Inclined, Relativistic Light Sails
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad10b0
Coupled atmospheric chemistry, radiation, and dynamics of an exoplanet generate self-sustained oscillations
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2309312120
The Rossiter-McLaughlin effect and exoplanet transits: A delicate association at medium and low spectral resolution
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.12976
A Combined Ground-based and JWST Atmospheric Retrieval Analysis: Both IGRINS and NIRSpec Agree The Atmosphere of WASP-77A b is Metal-Poor
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.13069
