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CARMENES detection of the CaII infrared triplet and possible evidence of HeI in the atmosphere of WASP-76b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.00059
No umbrella needed: Confronting the hypothesis of iron rain on WASP-76b with post-processed general circulation models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.00163
HD22496b: the first ESPRESSO standalone planet discovery
https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.00226
Astrotheology’s contribution to public theology: From the extraterrestrial intelligence myth to astroethics
https://hts.org.za/index.php/hts/article/view/6855
Closed-form ab initio solutions of geometric albedos and reflected light phase curves of exoplanets
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-021-01444-7
Characterizing Undetected Stellar Companions with Combined Data Sets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac0ae9
Optimizing Startshot lightsail design: a generative network-based approach
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.12999
Multiple moist climate equilibrium states on arid rocky M-dwarf planets: A last-saturation tracer analysis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.12458
Milankovitch Cycles for a Circumstellar Earth-analog within α Centauri-like Binaries
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.12650
Abiotic molecular oxygen production — ionic pathway from sulphur dioxide
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.12672
The 2021 Assembly of the Order of the Octopus
https://zenodo.org/communities/octopusassembly2021/?page=1&size=20
Scientific Targets of Tanpopo: Astrobiology Exposure and Micrometeoroid Capture Experiments at the Japanese Experiment Module Exposed Facility of the International Space Station
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2020.2426
Internal gravity waves in a stratified layer atop a convecting liquid core in a non-rotating spherical shell
https://academic.oup.com/gji/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/gji/ggab343/6359145
Chemical evidence for planetary ingestion in a quarter of Sun-like stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.12040
SPORK That Spectrum: Increasing Detection Significances from High-Resolution Exoplanet Spectroscopy with Novel Smoothing Algorithms
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.12057
MHD Model of the Interaction of a Coronal Mass Ejection with the Hot Jupiter HD 209458b
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063772921090092
Study of the Secular Evolution of Circumbinary Systems Using R-Toroid and Gaussian Ring Models
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063772921080072
Multi-color photometry and parameters estimation of three transiting Jupiter-sized exoplanets; TrES-3b, WASP-2b and HAT-P-30b
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1384107621001081
TOI-1518b: A Misaligned Ultra-hot Jupiter with Iron in its Atmosphere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.11403
Structures of secular resonances for inner test particles in hierarchical planetary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.11532
A new expansion of planetary disturbing function and applications to interior, co-orbital and exterior resonances with planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.11541
Exploring the link between star and planet formation with Ariel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.11869
A Lattice Boltzmann Scheme for Polarized Radiative Transfer in Planetary Atmospheres
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac0c76
No Large Dependence of Planet Frequency on Galactocentric Distance
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ac17ec
Habitability and Biosignatures of Hycean Worlds
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.10888
Constraining the radius and atmospheric properties of directly imaged exoplanets through multi-phase observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.10918
Constraints on the Occurrence of ‘Oumuamua-Like Objects
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.11194
