Effects of Mirror Seeing on High-Contrast Adaptive Optics Instruments
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.04649
The TRAPPIST-1 JWST Community Initiative
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.04798
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February 12, 2020 updates
Prospects for Interstellar Propulsion
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20200000759&hterms=Prospects+Interstellar+Propulsion
A Sub-Neptune-sized Planet Transiting the M2.5 Dwarf G 9-40: Validation with the Habitable-zone Planet Finder
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab5f15
Advances in Deep Space Exploration via Simulators & Deep Learning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.04051
February 11, 2020 updates
What is Paradoxical About ‘Fermi’s Paradox’?
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10441-020-09376-x
Improving transit characterisation with Gaussian process modelling of stellar variability
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/02/aa36086-19/aa36086-19.html
Atmospheric Erosion by Giant Impacts onto Terrestrial Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02977
Propulsion of Spacecrafts to Relativistic Speeds Using Natural Astrophysical Sources
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.03247
Implications of Abiotic Oxygen Buildup for Earth-like Complex Life
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.03248
ExoSim: the Exoplanet Observation Simulator
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.03739
Radio eclipses of exoplanets by the winds of their host stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.03901
HD 191939: Three Sub-Neptunes Transiting a Sun-like Star Only 54 pc Away
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.03958
February 10, 2020 updates
Case Study of an Interstellar Mission to Luhman 16: Unmanned Interstellar Probe Powered by Gas Core Nuclear Reactors
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337000501_Case_Study_of_an_Interstellar_Mission_to_Luhman_16_Unmanned_Interstellar_Probe_Powered_by_Gas_Core_Nuclear_Reactors
On A Hypothetical Mechanism of Interstellar Life Transfer Trough Nomadic Objects
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11084-020-09591-z
A crucial test for astronomical spectrograph calibration with frequency combs
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1010-x
Kepler-1661 b: A Neptune-sized Kepler Transiting Circumbinary Planet around a Grazing Eclipsing Binar
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab665b
GJ 1252 b: A 1.2 R ⊕ Planet Transiting an M3 Dwarf at 20.4 pc
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab7020
Planetary evolution with atmospheric photoevaporation I. Analytical derivation and numerical study of the evaporation valley and transition from super-Earths to sub-Neptunes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02455
The Impact of Planetary Rotation Rate on the Reflectance and Thermal Emission Spectrum of Terrestrial Exoplanets Around Sun-like Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02549
Occurrence Rates of Planets Orbiting M Stars: Applying ABC to Kepler DR25, Gaia DR2, and 2MASS Data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02573
The continuing search for evidence of tidal orbital decay of hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02606
Non-detection of TiO and VO in the atmosphere of WASP-121b using high-resolution spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02795
Occurrence and Architecture of Kepler Planetary Systems as Functions of Stellar Mass and Effective Temperature
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02840
Unveiling cloudy exoplanets: the influence of cloud model choices on retrieval solutions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02945
February 7, 2020 updates
Deep Space (Treaty) Exploration: Reviving Today’s Obsolete Space Treaties
https://digitalcommons.law.msu.edu/ilr/vol28/iss1/1/
How the Privatization of Space Exploration Will Positively Effect Humanity
https://jenacrangnow.wordpress.com/2019/01/06/the-privatization-of-space-exploration/
Artificial versus Biological Intelligence in the Cosmos: Clues from a Stochastic Analysis of the Drake Equation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.11644
Can polarity-inverted membranes self-assemble on Titan?
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/4/eaax0272
Orbit classification in exoplanetary systems
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/02/aa37224-19/aa37224-19.html
Precision and consistency of astrocombs
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa356/5729051
Doppler shifts and spectral line profile changes in the starlight scattered from an exoplanet
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa268/5729057
On the impact of tides on the transit-timing fits to the TRAPPIST-1 system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02015
First SETI Observations with China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02130
The Bimodal Distribution in Exoplanet Radii: Considering Varying Core Compositions and H2 Envelop Sizes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02166