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A super-Earth orbiting near the inner edge of the habitable zone around the M4.5 dwarf Ross 508
https://academic.oup.com/pasj/advance-article/doi/10.1093/pasj/psac044/6623879
A Search for Radio Technosignatures at the Solar Gravitational Lens Targeting Alpha Centauri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.14807
Inferring Late-stage Enrichment of Exoplanet Atmospheres from Observed Interstellar Comets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ac786e
Methanol—A Poor Biosignature Gas in Exoplanet Atmospheres
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac6f60
Impact of Lorentz violation models on exoplanets dynamics
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.14657
The impact of two non-transiting planets and stellar activity on mass determinations for the super-Earth CoRoT-7b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.14216
On the long-term stability of the Solar System in the presence of weak perturbations from stellar flybys
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.14240
The TESS-Keck Survey. XIII. An Eccentric Hot Neptune with a Similar-Mass Outer Companion around TOI-1272
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.14327
Tidal excitation of autoresonant oscillations in stars with close-by planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.14611
ESA-Ariel Data Challenge NeurIPS 2022: Introduction to exo-atmospheric studies and presentation of the Ariel Big Challenge (ABC) Database
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.14633
ESA-Ariel Data Challenge NeurIPS 2022: Inferring Physical Properties of Exoplanets From Next-Generation Telescopes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.14642
NASA’s New Hubble E-Book Takes Readers on a Journey to Curious Worlds
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/nasas-new-hubble-e-book-takes-readers-on-a-journey-to-curious-worlds
Using birefringent elements and imaging Michelsons for the calibration of high-precision planet-finding spectrographs
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/06/aa41657-21/aa41657-21.html
Optimal mass and speed for interstellar flyby with directed-energy propulsion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.13929
Constraining the Planet Occurrence Rate around Halo Stars of Potentially Extragalactic Origin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.13556
Forming short period sub-stellar companions in 47 Tucanae — II. Analytic expressions for the orbital evolution of planets in dense environments
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.13558
Searching for extraterrestrial intelligence with the square kilometre array
https://9lib.org/document/zlgje06y-searching-extraterrestrial-intelligence-square-kilometre-array.html
Potential long-term habitable conditions on planets with primordial H–He atmospheres
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-022-01699-8
NASA Rockets Launch from Australia to Seek Habitable Star Conditions
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/nasa-rockets-launch-from-australia-to-seek-habitable-star-conditions
Convolutional neural networks as an alternative to Bayesian retrievals for interpreting exoplanet transmission spectra
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/06/aa42976-21/aa42976-21.html
A large range of haziness conditions in hot-Jupiter atmospheres
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac1772/6618565
Quadrupole and octupole order resonances in non-restricted hierarchical planetary systems
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac1757/6618560
Radiation Effects from the Interstellar Medium and Cosmic Ray Particle Impacts on Relativistic Spacecraft
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac6a50
An Informational Approach to Exoplanet Characterization
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.13344
MIRAC-5: A ground-based mid-IR instrument with the potential to detect ammonia in gas giants
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.12682
Nebula-Relay Hypothesis: Cosmic ray-driven bioenergetics for Life in Molecular Clouds and the Origin of Chemiosmosis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.12816
The Effect of Accretion Rate and Composition on the Structure of Ice-rich Super-Earths
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.12861
Growth and evolution of secondary volcanic atmospheres: I. Identifying the geological character of hot rocky planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.05161
Cleaning our Hazy Lens: Exploring Trends in Transmission Spectra of Warm Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.06173
Feasibility of detecting and characterizing embedded low-mass giant planets in gaps in the VIS/NIR wavelength range
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/06/aa42652-21/aa42652-21.html
GENGA. II. GPU Planetary N-body Simulations with Non-Newtonian Forces and High Number of Particles
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac6dd2
On the transit spectroscopy features of warm Neptunes in the TOI-421 system, revealed with their 3D aeronomy simulations
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac1633/6617993?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Thermocline Depth on Water-rich Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.12049
How do we optimally sample model grids of exoplanet spectra?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.12194
Constraining masses and separations of unseen companions to five accelerating nearby stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.12266
Revising Properties of Planet-host Binary Systems I.: Methods and Pilot Study
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.12304
