Observability of ultraviolet Ni lines in the atmosphere of transiting Earth‐like planets
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.202013842
HIRES, the high-resolution spectrograph for the ELT
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.12317
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November 26, 2020 updates
Ariel – a window to the origin of life on early earth?
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10686-020-09681-w
A Search for Polarized Thermal Emission from Directly Imaged Exoplanets and Brown Dwarf Companions to Nearby Stars
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abc33d
Critical review of chirality indicators of extraterrestrial life
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1387647320300725
TRAP: A temporal systematics model for improved direct detection of exoplanets at small angular separations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.12311
XAO-assisted coronagraphy with SHARK NIR: from simulations to laboratory tests
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.12899
Unusual chemistry of the C-H-N-O system under pressure and implications for giant planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.12803
November 25, 2020 updates
Geoforming Mars
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-58876-2
Bridging the Planet Radius Valley: Stellar Clustering as a Key Driver for Turning Sub-Neptunes into Super-Earths
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.11680
Ultra Short Period Planets in K2 III: Neighbors are Common with 12 New Multi-Planet Systems and 26 Newly Validated Planets in Campaigns 0-8, 10
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.11698
The Origin of Chiral Life
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.12145
ESPRESSO high resolution transmission spectroscopy of WASP-76b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.12197
November 24, 2020 updates
Here’s Looking at You, MKID
https://www.news.ucsb.edu/2020/020103/here-s-looking-you-mkid
Precise radial velocities of giant stars – XIV. Evidence of planetary companions around HD 25723, 17 Sco, 3 Cnc, and 44 UMa
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/12/aa38285-20/aa38285-20.html
Europium as a lodestar: diagnosis of radiogenic heat production in terrestrial exoplanets – Spectroscopic determination of Eu abundances in α Centauri AB
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/12/aa38386-20/aa38386-20.html
Architectures of Exoplanetary Systems. III. Eccentricity and Mutual Inclination Distributions of AMD-stable Planetary Systems
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abba18
An Unusual Transmission Spectrum for the Sub-Saturn KELT-11b Suggestive of a Subsolar Water Abundance
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abc1e9
Is TiO emission present in the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-33b? A reassessment using the improved ExoMol Toto line list
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.10587
Refined Telluric Absorption Correction for Low-Resolution Ground-Based Spectroscopy: Resolution and Radial Velocity Effects in the O2 A-Band for Exoplanets and K I Emission Lines
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.10845
Application of the mixing length theory to assess the generation of melt in internally heated systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.11172
Peeking inside the Black Box: Interpreting Deep Learning Models for Exoplanet Atmospheric Retrievals
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.11284
TOI-519 b: a short-period substellar object around an M dwarf validated using multicolour photometry and phase curve analysis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.11458
Formation and dynamics of water clouds on temperate sub-Neptunes: the example of K2-18b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.11553
The Magellan-TESS Survey I: Survey Description and Mid-Survey Results
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.11560
November 23, 2020 updates
The Timing of Evolutionary Transitions Suggests Intelligent Life Is Rare
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2019.2149
Spectropolarimetry of Primitive Phototrophs as Global Surface Biosignatures
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2020.2272
Gaia search for stellar companions of TESS Objects of Interest
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.202013825
Correcting the effect of stellar spots on ARIEL transmission spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.10085
Methane as a dominant absorber in the habitable-zone sub-Neptune K2-18 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.10424
Orbital evolution of potentially habitable planets of tidally interacting binary stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.10430
1D atmospheric study of the temperate sub-Neptune K2-18b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.10459
Evidence for chromium hydride in the atmosphere of Hot Jupiter WASP-31b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.10558
Vetting of 384 TESS Objects of Interest with TRICERATOPS and Statistical Validation of 12 Planet Candidates
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.00691