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Dynamics of co-orbital exoplanets in a first-order resonance chain with tidal dissipation
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/08/aa43261-22/aa43261-22.html
High-performance solar sails for interstellar object rendezvous https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576522004003
Irradiation-driven escape of primordial planetary atmospheres III. Revised planetary parameters and mass-loss rates for nearby gaseous planets after Gaia DR2
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.01650
Understanding Life in the Universe
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/understanding-life-in-the-universe/795DF10662E5F31A35F2DDFDE05B32CA
Moon-packing around an Earth-mass Planet
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac2172/6653105
Orbital Characterization of Superbolides Observed from Space: Dynamical Association with Near-Earth Objects, Meteoroid Streams, and Identification of Hyperbolic Meteoroids
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac75d2
Less Effective Hydrodynamic Escape of H2–H2O Atmospheres on Terrestrial Planets Orbiting Pre-main-sequence M Dwarfs
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac7be7
Planetary Science Opportunities for Heliospheric/Interstellar Probe Missions https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/10.1142/9789811260100_0070
The Space Coronagraph Optical Bench (SCoOB): 1. Design and Assembly of a Vacuum-compatible Coronagraph Testbed for Spaceborne High-Contrast Imaging Technology
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.01156
The space coronagraph optical bench (SCoOB): 2. wavefront sensing and control in a vacuum-compatible coronagraph testbed for spaceborne high-contrast imaging technology
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.01155
Datumless Topography: A Universally Consistent Way to Quantify Relief
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.01600
Edge-of-the-Multis: Evidence for a Transition in the Outer Architectures of Compact Multiplanet Systems
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac7c67
Constraining the Densities of the Three Kepler-289 Planets with Transit Timing Variations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.00022
An Ocean Expedition by the Galileo Project to Retrieve Fragments of the First Large Interstellar Meteor CNEOS 2014-01-08
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.00092
H2S and SO2 detectability in Hot Jupiters: Sulfur species as indicator of metallicity and C/O ratio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.00469
Systems Design and Integration of Small Scale Nano and Picosatellites
https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202207.0368/v1
The mechanism that drives electrostatic solitary waves to propagate in the Earth’s magnetosphere and solar wind
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ctpp.202200041
The Closest Past Flyby of a Known Star to the Solar System: HD 7977, UCAC4 237-008148 or WISE J072003.20-084651.2?
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ac842b
Searching for giant planets in the outer Solar System with far-infrared all-sky surveys
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac2044/6652122?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Star-Planet Interaction: Wave Structures and Wing-Wing Interaction
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.14658
Estimating the potential of ionizing radiation-induced radiolysis for microbial metabolism in terrestrial planets with rarefied atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.14675
MIRECLE: Science Yield for a Mid-IR Explorer-Class Mission to Study Non-Transiting Rocky Planets Orbiting the Nearest M-Stars Using Planetary Infrared Excess
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.13727
A Criterion for the Stability of Planets in Chains of Resonances
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.13833
The HD 93963 A transiting system: A 1.04d super-Earth and a 3.65 d sub-Neptune discovered by TESS and CHEOPS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.13920
Atmosphere of the mini-Neptune transiting the bright M dwarf GJ 3090 can be characterized https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.14121
Toward a multidimensional analysis of transmission spectroscopy. Part I: Computation of transmission spectra using a 1D, 2D, or 3D atmosphere structure
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.11799
Toward a multidimensional analysis of transmission spectroscopy. Part III: Modelling 2D effects in retrievals with TauREx
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.14247
