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Nondetection of Helium in the Upper Atmospheres of Three Sub-Neptune Exoplanets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abbee6
The Demographics of Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.04703
A Search for Technosignatures Around 31 Sun-like Stars with the Green Bank Telescope at 1.15-1.73 GHz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.05265
First, Do Nothing: A Passive Protocol for First Contact
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S026596462030031X
NASA Selects New Science Teams for Astrobiology Research
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-selects-new-science-teams-for-astrobiology-research
Interdisciplinary Consortia for Astrobiology Research
https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/research/astrobiology-at-nasa/icar/
Radiogenic Heating and Its Influence on Rocky Planet Dynamos and Habitability
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abc251
Life’s irreducible structure: Where are we, five decades later?
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bies.202000250
The Effect of Land Albedo on the Climate of Land-Dominated Planets in the TRAPPIST-1 System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.03621
Broadband transmission spectroscopy of HD209458b with ESPRESSO: Evidence for Na, TiO, or both
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.03746
Identifying Bound Stellar Companions to Kepler Exoplanet Host Stars Using Speckle Imaging
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.03903
A Simplified Photodynamical Model for Planetary Mass Determination in Low-Eccentricity Multi-Transiting Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.04404
Optical Verification Experiments of Sub-scale Starshades
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.04432
Predicting missing planets in multiplanet system populations via analytical assessments of dynamical packing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.03053
ARES IV: Probing the atmospheres of the two warm small planets HD 106315 c and HD 3167 c with the HST/WFC3 camera
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.03221
Clouds in Exoplanetary Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.03302
Transmission spectroscopy for the warm sub-Neptune HD3167c: evidence for molecular absorption and a possible high metallicity atmosphere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.03470
Earth as an Exoplanet. I. Time Variable Thermal Emission Using Spatially Resolved Moderate Imaging Spectroradiometer Data
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abbc15
PyLightcurve-torch: a transit modelling package for deep learning applications in PyTorch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.02030
SPECULOOS — Ultracool Dwarf Transit Survey: Target List and Strategy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.02069
Activity time series of old stars from late F to early K. V. Effect on exoplanet detectability with high-precision astrometry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.02158
Generalized Stoichiometry and Biogeochemistry for Astrobiological Applications
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.02425
