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Rapid Response Missions to Explore Fast, High-Value Targets such as Interstellar Objects and Long Period Comets
https://baas.aas.org/pub/2021n4i481/release/1
A transit survey to search for planets around hot subdwarfs: I. methods and performance tests on light curves from Kepler, K2, TESS, and CHEOPS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.10462
The effect of core formation on surface composition and planetary habitability
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.10612
Discovery of an Extremely Short Duration Flare from Proxima Centauri Using Millimeter through Far-ultraviolet Observations
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abf14c
Interstellar communication network. III. Locating deep space nodes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.09564
Inferring Exoplanet Disequilibria with Multivariate Information in Atmospheric Reaction Networks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.09776
How to identify exoplanet surfaces using atmospheric trace species in hydrogen-dominated atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.09843
Precision Millimeter Astrometry of the α Centauri AB System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.10086
Introducing physical warp drives
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6382/abdf6e
Searching for Extragalactic Exoplanetary Systems: the Curious Case of BD+20 2457
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.08306
Evidence of energy-, recombination-, and photon-limited escape regimes in giant planet H/He atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.08832
Photon-Inter-Correlation Optical Communication
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.08913
Phase curve pollution of exoplanet transmission spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.08979
The traditional approximation of rotation for rapidly rotating stars and planets. I. The impact of strong deformation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.09302
Configuration Selection and Analysis of a Superstructure Solar Sail
https://it-in-industry.org/index.php/itii/article/view/471
Survival of soil microbial community exposed to hyper-gravity conditions
https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-385552/v1
Photonic solution to phase sensing and control for light-based interstellar propulsion
https://www.osapublishing.org/josab/fulltext.cfm?uri=josab-38-5-1477&id=450064
Neopanspermia – Evidence That Life Continuously Arrives at the Earth from Space
http://isaac-scientific.com/4/2087/6/1/02/2021/AdAp.html
Discovery of a directly imaged planet to the young solar analog YSES 2
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2021/04/aa40508-21/aa40508-21.html
Microalgae strategy in anoxic atmospheres with various CO2 concentrations – Environmental and (astro)biotechnological perspectives
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0098847221001040
Orbital stability of compact three-planet systems, I: Dependence of system lifetimes on initial orbital separations and longitudes
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103521001512
Circumbinary Habitable Zones in the Presence of a Giant Planet
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fspas.2021.640830/full
Primary Velocity and Orbital Phase Effects on Planetary Detectability from Small Epoch Number Data Sets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.07790
An Empirical Bayesian Approach to Limb-darkening in Modeling WASP-121b Transit Light Curves
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.07864
Shortest Microlensing Event with a Bound Planet: KMT-2016-BLG-2605
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.07906
Composition of terrestrial exoplanet atmospheres from meteorite outgassing experiments
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-021-01338-8
Structure and thermal evolution of exoplanetary cores
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020JE006724
SETI tactics on FAST fractality
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.07334
Star-planet interactions VI. Tides, stellar activity and planet evaporation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.07397
