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High-Resolution Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy of GV Tau N: Surface Accretion and Detection of Ammonia in a Young Protoplanetary Disk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.00016
Phase Modeling of the TRAPPIST-1 Planetary Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.00080
Prospects for Galactic and stellar astrophysics with asteroseismology of giant stars in the TESS Continuous Viewing Zones and beyond
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.00140
Ghosts of NEID’s Past
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.00182
Strategies for the Detection of ET Probes Within Our Own Solar System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.12446
Broadband transmission spectroscopy of HD 209458b with ESPRESSO: evidence for Na, TiO, or both
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/12/aa39454-20/aa39454-20.html
Exoplanet Detection using Machine Learning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.14135
Characterization of M dwarfs Using Optical Mid-Resolution Spectra for Exploration of Small Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.14521
Interstellar Objects Outnumber Solar System Objects in the Oort Cloud
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.14900
Phase Shift of Planetary Waves and Wave–Jet Resonance on Tidally Locked Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.14553
Natural radioactive environments as sources of local disequilibrium for the emergence of life
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.14839
Exomoon Candidates from Transit Timing Variations: Eight Kepler systems with TTVs explainable by photometrically unseen exomoons
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.12997
Planet Hunters TESS II: Findings from the first two years of TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.13944
3D simulations of photochemical hazes in the atmosphere of hot Jupiter HD 189733b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.14022
Demography of galactic technosignatures
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.14147
Presumptuous Philosopher Proves Panspermia
https://philarchive.org/archive/TURPPP-8
OWL-Moon in 2050 and beyond
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsta.2020.0187
Enshrouding & Star-planet Interactions in Close-orbiting Systems
http://oro.open.ac.uk/73559/1/JDoherty_PhD-thesis_9-10-20.pdf
Observational constraints on the likelihood of 26Al in planet-forming environments
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/12/aa39334-20/aa39334-20.html
Project lyra: Catching 1I/‘Oumuamua–using Nuclear Thermal Rockets
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576520307141
On the Estimation of Circumbinary Orbital Properties
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.13376
WASP-107b’s density is even lower: a case study for the physics of planetary gas envelope accretion and orbital migration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.13444
Non-tidal Coupling of the Orbital and Rotational Motions of Extended Bodies
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.13053
Observability of ultraviolet Ni lines in the atmosphere of transiting Earth‐like planets
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.202013842
HIRES, the high-resolution spectrograph for the ELT
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.12317
Ariel – a window to the origin of life on early earth?
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10686-020-09681-w
A Search for Polarized Thermal Emission from Directly Imaged Exoplanets and Brown Dwarf Companions to Nearby Stars
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abc33d
Critical review of chirality indicators of extraterrestrial life
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1387647320300725
TRAP: A temporal systematics model for improved direct detection of exoplanets at small angular separations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.12311
XAO-assisted coronagraphy with SHARK NIR: from simulations to laboratory tests
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.12899
Unusual chemistry of the C-H-N-O system under pressure and implications for giant planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.12803
