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The Future Of The Arecibo Observatory: The Next Generation Arecibo Telescope
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.01367
Implications of an improved water equation of state for water-rich planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.01410
An Earth-mass Planet in a Time of Covid-19: KMT-2020-BLG-0414Lb
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.01896
Atmospheric Technosignatures: Searching for Intelligent Life in Alien Skies
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e1e52526fe19076661d2a77/t/600638f0825cad7378ca8eeb/1611020536262/
Damage to Relativistic Interstellar Spacecraft by ISM Impact Gas Accumulation
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abd4ec/meta
Atmospheric characterization of hot Jupiters using hierarchical models of Spitzer observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.00010
An ultra-short-period transiting super-Earth orbiting the M3 dwarf TOI-1685
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.01016
Space Development Futures: Spacefaring Infrastructures of Indifferently Spacefaring Civilizations
https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2021/02/26/space-development-futures-spacefaring-infrastructures-of-indifferently-spacefaring-civilizations/
Hyperspeed penetrator to deliver research equipment to interstellar wanderers
https://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/5.0038658
Diurnal Variability and Detectability of Vegetation Red Edge of Earth-like Exoplanets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abd6ff
Finding Signs of Life in Transits: High-resolution Transmission Spectra of Earth-line Planets around FGKM Host Stars
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abe634
Concepts for future missions to search for technosignatures
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S009457652100103X
TechnoClimes
https://technoclimes.org/
Characteristics of aquatic biospheres on temperate planets around Sun-like stars and M-dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14387
The Zoologist’s Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal About Aliens–and Ourselves
https://www.amazon.com/Zoologists-Guide-Galaxy-Aliens-Ourselves/dp/1984881965
Constraints on Sub-Neptune Planet Candidate KOI-972.01 via Joint Variability/Gravity-darkening Analysis
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/abdb2e
Finding Signs of Life in Transit: High-resolution Transmission Spectra of Earth-like Planets around FGKM Host Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.12011
On the stellar clustering and architecture of planetary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.12346
The Chemical link between stars and their rocky planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.12444
