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Searching for Massive Remnant Planetary System Hosts with White Dwarf Gaia XP Spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.22033
Time-resolved JWST Retrieval Analysis of the Coldest Brown Dwarf: Temperature and Chemical Variations in WISE 0855-07
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.21881
Laboratory astrochemistry studies using compact devices based on laser-produced plasma sources of extreme ultraviolet and soft x-rays
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6463/aea33f
WINERED Detects a Strong Atmospheric Outflow on the Sub-Neptune GJ 3090b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.14704
Setup and performance of focal-plane characterization benches for high precision astrometry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.15682
A Binary Flux Calibrator Reveals the Scientific Potential of Short-integration JWST MIRI Imaging to Directly Detect sub-Jupiter Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.19133
Detecting transiting exoplanets in simulated PLATO data: A comparison of light curve filter and transit search algorithms
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.15493
Stellar Ages of M Dwarf Hosts of Temperate Sub-Neptunes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.17505
Resolving core-envelope degeneracies in giant planets and sub-Neptunes: Constraining the equivalence in the presence of dilute gradients
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/09/aa60091-26/aa60091-26.html
The JWST weather report: Unravelling the atmospheric variability of isolated worlds using principal component analysis
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/09/aa60109-26/aa60109-26.html
Rescuing Kepler’s False Positives: A Possible Habitable Zone Exoplanet in the Triple Star System KOI-1623
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.16201
No statistically significant evidence for a correlation between stellar and planetary composition
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.17159
The Times of International Law: Disjuncture, Capture and Resistance
https://doi.org/10.1093/ejil/chag037
The Abiotic Background: Challenges and Opportunities in the Search for Evidence of Life Beyond Earth
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42740627/
Hot molecular cores in the W 49A molecular cloud complex
https://doi.org/10.1093/pasj/psag107
Facilities to detect and confirm transiting exoplanets
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/chapter/referencework/abs/pii/B978044321439400047X
What the Solar System Can Teach Us About Rocky Exoplanets
