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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
Sensitivity to habitable planets in the Roman microlensing survey
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab2942/6395327
Another super-dense sub-Neptune in K2-182 b and refined mass measurements for K2-199 b and c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.05502
Modeling the high-resolution emission spectra of clear and cloudy non-transiting hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.05593
The TESS-Keck Survey. VI. Two Eccentric sub-Neptunes Orbiting HIP-97166
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.05628
A New Sedimentation Model for Greater Cloud Diversity in Giant Exoplanets and Brown Dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.05903
Application of the Shannon entropy in the planar (non-restricted) four-body problem: the long-term stability of the Kepler-60 exoplanetary system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.05971
Thermal runaway of silicon-based laser sails
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.06185
Nauyaca: a new tool to determine planetary masses and orbital elements through transit timing analysis [EPA]
https://arxiver.moonhats.com/2021/10/11/nauyaca-a-new-tool-to-determine-planetary-masses-and-orbital-elements-through-transit-timing-analysis-epa/
Relativistic Braking and Power Generation through Stellar Magnetic Fields via Eddy Current Forces
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Colin-Warn/publication/354894913_Relativistic_Braking_and_Power_Generation_through_Stellar_Magnetic_Fields_via_Eddy_Current_Forces/links/615322c5154b3227a8b6ea54/Relativistic-Braking-and-Power-Generation-through-Stellar-Magnetic-Fields-via-Eddy-Current-Forces.pdf
The population of M dwarfs observed at low radio frequencies
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-021-01483-0
The TESS View of LOFAR Radio-emitting Stars
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ac230c
HD 22496 b: The first ESPRESSO stand-alone planet discovery
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2021/10/aa41714-21/aa41714-21.html
Is the orbit of the exoplanet WASP-43b really decaying? TESS and MuSCAT2 observations confirm no detection
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab2929/6388393
The Effects of Magnetic Fields on Observational Signatures of Atmospheric Escape in Exoplanets: Double Tail Structures
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.05200
Enhanced thermal radiation from a tidally heated exomoon with a single hot spot
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.05353
Climate uncertainties caused by unknown land distribution on habitable M-Earths
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.04310
The Hubble PanCET program: Transit and Eclipse Spectroscopy of the Hot Jupiter WASP-74b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.04415
Disks in close binary stars – γ-Cephei revisited
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2021/10/aa41248-21/aa41248-21.html
A multiwavelength analysis of the spiral arms in the protoplanetary disk around WaOph 6
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2021/10/aa40783-21/aa40783-21.html
The mass of β Pictoris c from β Pictoris b orbital motion
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2021/10/aa41889-21/aa41889-21.html
Seeing Earth as another planet
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0262407921017760
There may be an exoplanet orbiting three stars at once
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0262407921017838
TOI-3362b: A Proto Hot Jupiter Undergoing High-eccentricity Tidal Migration
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ac2600
The statistical properties of protostellar discs and their dependence on metallicity
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab2901/6384835?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Mass Transport in a Moist Planetary Climate Model
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.03719
The formation of wide exoKuiper belts from migrating dust traps
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.04007
TOI-530b: A giant planet transiting an M dwarf detected by TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.04220
The key impact of the host star’s rotational history on the evolution of TOI-849b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2021/10/aa41734-21/aa41734-21.html
Carbon Cycling and Habitability of Massive Earth-like Exoplanets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ac24aa
The Criterion for Chaos in Three-Planet Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.02956
TRAPPIST-1: Dynamical analysis of the transit-timing variations and origin of the resonant chain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.03340
The traditional approximation of rotation for rapidly rotating stars and planets. II. Deformation and differential rotation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.03619
