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The GAPS Programme at TNG – XLI. The climate of KELT-9b revealed with a new approach to high-spectral-resolution phase curves
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/12/aa44593-22/aa44593-22.html
Hazy with a Chance of Star Spots: Constraining the Atmosphere of Young Planet K2-33b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aca07a
Precise dynamical masses of new directly imaged companions from combining relative astrometry, radial velocities, and HIPPARCOS-Gaia eDR3 accelerations
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/12/aa44633-22/aa44633-22.html
Breakdown of planetary systems in embedded clusters
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac3705/6939834
Tidal Distortions as a Bottleneck on Constraining Exoplanet Compositions https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aca409
The Possible Tidal Demise of Kepler’s First Planetary System
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aca47e
Comparative Analysis of Observations of the Selected Exoplanet Transits Obtained at the Kyiv Comet Station with the Database of the Orbital Telescopes TESS and KEPLER
http://oap.onu.edu.ua/article/view/268007
Limb darkening measurements from TESS and Kepler light curves of transiting exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.09117
Kepler-80 Revisited: Assessing the Participation of a Newly Discovered Planet in the Resonant Chain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.08695
Orbital structure of planetary systems formed by giant impacts: stellar mass dependence
https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.08812
Hubble WFC3 Spectroscopy of the Terrestrial Planets L~98-59~c \& d: No Evidence for a Clear Hydrogen Dominated Primary Atmosphere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.09526
Limitations on High-Speed Relativistic Interstellar Travel due to Interstellar Asteroidal and Cometary Material
https://journals.gmu.edu/index.php/jssr/article/view/3482
Impact of Mg II interstellar medium absorption on near-ultraviolet exoplanet transit measurements
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac3690/6918844?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Spinning up a Daze: TESS Uncovers a Hot Jupiter orbiting the Rapid-Rotator TOI-778
https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.08242
Evidence for the volatile-rich composition of a 1.5-R⊕ planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.08477
Nuclear fusion breakthrough: What does it mean for space exploration?
https://www.space.com/nuclear-fusion-breakthrough-spacetravel
The Mass and Orbital-Period Distributions of Exoplanets Accounting for the Observational Selection of the Method for Measuring Radial Velocities. A Dominant (Averaged) Structure of Planetary Systems https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S106377292210002X
Evidence for the volatile-rich composition of a 1.5-Earth-radius planet
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-022-01835-4
Surface‐To‐Ocean Exchange by the Sinking of Impact Generated Melt Chambers on Europa
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022GL100287
Atmospheric characterization of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-33b – Detection of Ti and V emission lines and retrieval of a broadened line profile
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/12/aa44277-22/aa44277-22.html
Companions to Kepler giant stars: A long-period eccentric sub-stellar companion to KIC 3526061 and a stellar companion to HD 187878
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/12/aa44501-22/aa44501-22.html
Common envelope evolution and triple dynamics as potential pathways to form the inner white dwarf + brown dwarf binary of the triple star system Gaia 0007−1605
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac3675/6912273
Occurrence Rate of Hot Jupiters Around Early-type M Dwarfs Based on Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite Data
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac9b12
Importance of Sample Selection in Exoplanet-atmosphere Population Studies
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac9f45
Near-infrared Accretion Signatures from the Circumbinary Planetary-mass Companion Delorme 1 (AB)b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ac85ef
Erratum: “Near-infrared Accretion Signatures from the Circumbinary Planetary-mass Companion Delorme 1 (AB)b” (2022, ApJL, 935, L18)
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aca331
TrExoLiSTS: Transiting Exoplanets List of Space Telescope Spectroscopy https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/acabc7
Transit Depth Variations Reveal TOI-216 b to be a Super-Puff
https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.07450
Statistical Analysis of the Dearth of Super-eccentric Jupiters in the Kepler Sample
https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.07546
Alien technology, conjunction and ergodicity
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/alien-technology-conjunction-and-ergodicity/E9500F60A57E44945E4A26B857B6A468
Analysis of Eclipsing Binary Stars and Identification of Exoplanets Using Transit Timing Variation Using data from TESS
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/2381/1/012106
The Direct Mid-Infrared Detectability of Habitable-zone Exoplanets Around Nearby Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.06993
Two temperate Earth-mass planets orbiting the nearby star GJ1002
https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.07332
