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NASA’s Roman Mission Predicted to Find 100,000 Transiting Planets
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/nasa-s-roman-mission-predicted-to-find-thousands-of-transiting-planets
The Dark World: A Tale of WASP-43b in Reflected Light with HST WFC3/UVIS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.16676
(And because it’s April 1)
The Existential Threat of Future Exoplanet Discoveries
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.17079
Unusual polarimetric properties for interstellar comet 2I/Borisov
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-22000-x
The Diversity of Planetary Atmospheric Chemistry
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-021-00810-1
General Observer Programs in Cycle 1 (JWST)
https://www.stsci.edu/jwst/science-execution/approved-programs/cycle-1-go
Hot Jupiters, cold kinematics: High phase space densities of host stars reflect an age bias
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.15823
Tilting Planets During Planet Scattering
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.15843
Calibration of residual aberrations in exoplanet imagers with large numbers of degrees of freedom
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.15844
Spin Dynamics of Extrasolar Giant Planets in Planet-Planet Scattering
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.15902
On the multiscale behaviour of stellar activity and rotation of the planet host Kepler-30
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.15921
The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: MeerKAT Target Selection
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.16250
The influence of surface CO2 condensation on the evolution of warm and cold rocky planets orbiting Sun-like stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.16315
Planet-induced radio emission from the coronae of M dwarfs: the case of Prox Cen and AU Mic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.16318
Life in the Cosmos: From Biosignatures to Technosignatures
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674987579
Compact pebbles and the evolution of volatiles in the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-021-01336-w
Photonic materials for interstellar solar sailing
https://www.osapublishing.org/optica/abstract.cfm?doi=10.1364/OPTICA.417007
A new approach to spectroscopic phase curves: The emission spectrum of WASP-12b observed in quadrature with HST/WFC3
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.15124
Stellar versus Galactic: The intensity of cosmic rays at the evolving Earth and young exoplanets around Sun-like stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.15460
HST PanCET program: Non-detection of atmospheric escape in the warm Saturn-sized planet WASP-29 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.15688
A transmission spectrum of the planet candidate WD 1856+534 b and a lower limit to its mass
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.15720
The Curious Case of Argon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.15071
Precise radial velocities of giant stars – XV. Mysterious nearly periodic radial velocity variations in the eccentric binary ε Cygni
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2021/03/aa40087-20/aa40087-20.html
Simulation and analysis of the coherent-dispersion spectrometer for exoplanet detection
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/503/2/3032/6196008
The “Breakthrough” Proposal for Laser-accelerated Spacecraft is not Feasible
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/abf124
A joint mind consideration of the Drake equation in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576521001338
Assessment of Isoprene as a Possible Biosignature Gas in Exoplanets with Anoxic Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.14228
An exploration of model degeneracies with a unified phase curve retrieval analysis: The light and dark sides of WASP-43 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.14566
Assessing the Abundance of Super-Mercuries and Their Habitability
https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2021/pdf/2477.pdf
Differentiating Exo-Venus and Exo-Earth Using Transmission Spectroscopy
http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2021/pdf/2580.pdf
To See a World in a Shard of Ice: ‘Oumuamua as a Fragment of N2 Ice from an Exo-Pluto
http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2021/pdf/1718.pdf
Petrological Experiments on Rocky Exoplanet Compositions Reveal Clues to Habitability
http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2021/pdf/1967.pdf
The Compositional Range of Terrestrial Exoplanets in the Solar Neighborhood
http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2021/pdf/2605.pdf
Energetic Requirements for Dynamos in the Metallic Cores of Super-Earth and Super-Venus Exoplanets
http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2021/pdf/2323.pdf
Characterizing Exoplanet Transits and Stellar Activity in Kepler Lightcurves with Scalable Gaussian Processes
http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2021/pdf/1552.pdf
Towards Deep Learning for Transiting Exoplanet Search Using Simulated TESS Data
http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2021/pdf/2080.pdf
Leveraging Meteorite Outgassing Experiments to Improve Models of the Initial Atmospheres of Terrestrial Exoplanets
http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2021/pdf/1313.pdf
The Scientific Case for an Earth Transit Observer
http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2021/pdf/1265.pdf
Habitability Models for Planetary Sciences
http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2021/pdf/2291.pdf
Evolution of Terrestrial Habitability
http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2021/pdf/2720.pdf
Habitability of Cloudy Worlds: Intersecting Constraints and Unknowns
http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2021/pdf/2691.pdf
Activity of TRAPPIST-1 analogue stars observed with TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.13540
The Mass Budget Necessary to Explain `Oumuamua as a Nitrogen Iceberg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.14032
