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The Effects of Planetary and Stellar Parameters on Brittle Lithospheric Thickness
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021JE006952
TOI-216: Resonant Constraints on Planet Migration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.09577
Updated Studies on Exomoons in the HD 23079 System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.10013
OGLE-2019-BLG-0304: Competing Interpretations between a Planet–binary Model and a Binary-source + Binary-lens Model
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac1c09
HD207897 b: A dense sub-Neptune transiting a nearby and bright K-type star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.08597
SOLES II: The Aligned Orbit of WASP-148b, the Only Known Hot Jupiter with a Nearby Warm Jupiter Companion, from NEID and HIRES
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.08832
Towards multi-dimensional analysis of transmission spectroscopy. Part II: Day-night induced biases in retrievals from hot to ultra-hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.09080
Constraining stellar rotation and planetary atmospheric evolution of a dozen systems hosting sub-Neptunes and super-Earths
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.09106
Orbital obliquity sampling in the Kepler-20 system using the 3D animation software Blender
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.09268
The key impact of the host star’s rotational history on the evolution of TOI-849b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.09364
How Flat Can a Planetary System Get? I. The Case of TRAPPIST-1
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abf8a8
The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets – XLVI. 12 super-Earths around the solar type stars HD 39194, HD 93385, HD 96700, HD 154088, and HD 189567
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2021/10/aa41351-21/aa41351-21.html
Interstellar space biology via Project Starlight
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576521005518
The impact of photospheric brightness field on exoplanetary transit timings and the TTV excess of HD 189733 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.07901
Retention of water in terrestrial magma oceans and carbon-rich early atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.08029
Characterizing the Galactic and Extragalactic Background Near Exoplanet Direct Imaging Targets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.08097
The Fine-Tuning of the Universe for Life
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.07783
Old Neighbors, New Neighbors: Terrestrial Nonhuman Persons and SETI
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14746700.2021.1982253
Planet Formation and Panspermia: New Prospects for the Movement of Life through Space
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119640912
Phosphorus in the Clouds of Venus: Potential for Bioavailability
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2020.2267
A compositional link between rocky exoplanets and their host stars
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abg8794
Day–night cloud asymmetry prevents early oceans on Venus but not on Earth
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03873-w
A Jovian analogue orbiting a white dwarf star
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03869-6
Super stellar abundances of alkali metals suggest significant migration for Hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.06230
TKS V. Twin sub-Neptunes Transiting the Nearby G Star HD 63935
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.06885
