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Earliest Photic Zone Niches Probed by Ancestral Microbial Rhodopsins https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/39/5/msac100/6582242
A missing link in the nitrogen-rich organic chain on Titan
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/07/aa41025-21/aa41025-21.html
Detection of Atmospheric Escape from Four Young Mini Neptunes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.13099
Chemical Abundances for 25 JWST Exoplanet Host Stars with KeckSpec
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.13662
Project Lyra: A mission to 1I/’Oumuamua without Solar Oberth Manoeuvre https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576522003782
Bringing Exoplanets into View
https://physics.aps.org/articles/v15/s87
Null transit detections of 68 radial velocity exoplanets observed by TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.12498
Exploring the Dependence of Hot Jupiter Occurrence Rates on Stellar Mass with TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.12522
Detection of Na and K in the atmosphere of the hot Jupiter HAT-P-1b with P200/DBSP
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.12563
Extended planetary chaotic zones
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.12747
The K2-3 system revisited: testing photoevaporation and core-powered mass loss with three small planets spanning the radius valley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.12755
The effects of nonlinearities on tidal flows in the convective envelopes of rotating stars and planets in exoplanetary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.12780
Predicting biosignatures for nutrient limited biospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.12961
Orbiting Astronomical Satellite for Investigating Stellar Systems (OASIS): A Paradigm Shift in Realizing Large Space Telescopes
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361995337_Orbiting_Astronomical_Satellite_for_Investigating_Stellar_Systems_OASIS_A_Paradigm_Shift_in_Realizing_Large_Space_Telescopes
NASA Challenge: Ultralight Starshade Structural Design
https://grabcad.com/challenges/nasa-challenge-ultralight-starshade-structural-design
Photodynamical analysis of the nearly resonant planetary system WASP-148 – Accurate transit-timing variations and mutual orbital inclination
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/07/aa42964-21/aa42964-21.html
The GAPS Programme at TNG – XXXIII. HARPS-N detects multiple atomic species in emission from the dayside of KELT-20b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/07/aa42768-21/aa42768-21.html
A novel framework for semi-Bayesian radial velocities through template matching
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/07/aa42262-21/aa42262-21.html
Low Spin-Axis Variations of Circumbinary Planets
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac2071/6649817
Atmospheric Overturning Circulation on Dry, Tidally Locked Rocky Planets Is Mainly Driven by Radiative Cooling
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ac6d65
Identifying Interstellar Object Impact Craters
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ac77e9
Bistability of the atmospheric circulation on TRAPPIST-1e
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.12342
TRAPPIST-1h as an Exo-Titan. I. The Role of Assumptions about Atmospheric Parameters in Understanding an Exoplanet Atmosphere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.12358
Kinematic Evidence for an Embedded Planet in the IM Lupi Disk
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ac7f44
Observability of Forming Planets and their Circumplanetary Disks – IV. With JWST & ELT
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac1976/6649320?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Extended planetary chaotic zones
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac1979/6648819?redirectedFrom=fulltext
The nature of the radio source detected toward the exoplanet system 1RXS1609.1-210524
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac1902/6648818?redirectedFrom=fulltext
HD 28109 hosts a trio of transiting Neptunian planets including a near-resonant pair, confirmed by ASTEP from Antarctica
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/515/1/1328/6590833?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Heat storage in ocean worlds: The role of slurries
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac1893/6649325?redirectedFrom=fulltext
HORuS transmission spectroscopy and revised planetary parameters of KELT-7 b
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/515/1/1247/6646523?redirectedFrom=fulltext
GJ 3929: High Precision Photometric and Doppler Characterization of an Exo-Venus and its Hot, Mini-Neptune-mass Companion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.10672
Orbital and dynamical analysis of the system around HR 8799. New astrometric epochs from VLT/SPHERE and LBT/LUCI
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.10684
H2O distribution in the disc of HD 100546 and HD 163296: the role of dust dynamics and planet–disc interaction
Https://Arxiv.Org/Abs/2207.10744
Irradiation-driven escape of primordial planetary atmospheres – II. Evaporation efficiency of sub-Neptunes through hot Jupiters
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/07/aa42763-21/aa42763-21.html
The Hot Neptune WASP-166~b with ESPRESSO I: Refining the Planetary Architecture and Stellar Variability
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.10127
