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Searching for interstellar quantum communications
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.06446
Three microlensing planets with no caustic-crossing features
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.06544
Significant interstellar object production by close stellar flybys
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.06845
Positive Energy Warp Drive from Hidden Geometric Structures
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.06488
How likely are Snowball episodes near the inner edge of the habitable zone?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.06216
Main ways in which stars influence the climate and surface habitability of their planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.06391
No Sub-Saturn Mass Planet Desert in the CORALIE/HARPS Radial Velocity Sample
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.05713
The impact of tidal friction evolution on the orbital decay of ultra-short period planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.05967
Physics of star-planet magnetic interactions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.05968
Revisiting Kepler-444. II. Rotational, orbital and high-energy fluxes evolution of the system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.06061
Breakthrough Discuss 2021: Alpha Centauri System: A Beckoning Neighbor
https://youtu.be/qpewt9qEYXw
Breakthrough Discuss 2021: Yuri’s Night
https://youtu.be/Q3lP65PLaJA
Hunting Exoplanets Using Transit Method With Convolution Neural Networks
https://irjmets.com/rootaccess/forms/uploads/IRJMETS672856.pdf
Pushing planets into an inner cavity by a resonant chain
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2021/04/aa38772-20/aa38772-20.html
Relativistic modeling of atmospheric occultations with time transfer functions
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2021/04/aa40269-20/aa40269-20.html
Oxygen False Positives on Habitable Zone Planets Around Sun‐Like Stars
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020AV000294
Ariel: Enabling planetary science across light-years
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.04824
A Stellar Activity F-statistic for Exoplanet Surveys (SAFE)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.04887
Tides in the high-eccentricity migration of hot Jupiters: Triggering diffusive growth by nonlinear mode interactions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.04929
3D convection-resolving model of temperate, tidally-locked exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.05559
Hot planets around cool stars — two short-period mini-Neptunes transiting the late K-dwarf TOI-1260
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.05653
Surface biosignatures of exo-Earths: Remote detection of extraterrestrial life
https://www.pnas.org/content/112/13/3886
Exploiting Kepler’s Heritage: A Transfer Learning Approach for Identifying Exoplanets’ Transits in TESS Data
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/abf56b
ACCESS: An optical transmission spectrum of the high-gravity, hot Jupiter HAT-P-23b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.04101
Catalogue of exoplanets accessible in reflected starlight to the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. A population study and prospects for phase-curve measurements
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.04296
Revision of “Dependence of climate states of gray atmosphere on solar constant: From the runaway greenhouse to the snowball states” by Ishiwatari et al. (2007)
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2019JD031761
Discovery of the First Interstellar Comet and the Spatial Density of Interstellar Objects in the Solar Neighborhood
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134%2FS0038094621020027
Extending a grid of hydrodynamic planetary upper atmosphere models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.03796
The Trouble with “Puddle Thinking”: A User’s Guide to the Anthropic Principle
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.03381
