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The Next 500 Years
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/next-500-years
The Breakthrough Listen Search For Intelligent Life Near the Galactic Center I
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.14148
Folded transit photometry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.14233
Pseudo-2D Modelling of Heat Redistribution Through H2 Thermal Dissociation/Recombination: Consequences for Ultra-Hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.14376
Planet-induced radio emission from the coronae of M dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.14457
The Library of the Great Silence
https://www.seti.org/library-great-silence
Tensile–Tearing Analysis of Rectangular Thin Film with Central Defect
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.J060446
High resolution emission FT spectra of sodium in a microwave discharge: Intensity variation of the D/D lines in exoplanetary atmospheres
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022407321001825
Direct Imaging of Exoplanets Beyond the Radial Velocity Limit: Application to the HD 134987 System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.13531
Compact pebbles and the evolution of volatiles in the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.13545
Orbital stability of compact three-planet systems, I: Dependence of system lifetimes on initial orbital separations and longitudes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.13657
Orbital stability of compact three-planet systems, II: Post-instability impact behaviour
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.13658
Grazing, non-transiting disintegrating exoplanets observed with the planned Ariel space observatory — A case study using Kepler-1520b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.13684
On the influence of equilibrium tides on transit-timing variations of close-in super-Earths. I. Application to single-planet systems and the case of K2-265 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.13808
Biogeographical Modeling of Alien Worlds
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2020.2304
Improved Contrast in Images of Exoplanets Using Direct Signal-to-noise Ratio Optimization
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abee7d
High contrast imaging at 10 microns, a search for exoplanets around: Eps Indi A, Eps Eri, Tau Ceti, Sirius A and Sirius B
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.13032
vidence for TiO in the atmosphere of the hot Jupiter HAT-P-65 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.13058
Interstellar Probe: A Mission to the Heliospheric Boundary and Interstellar Medium for the Next Decade
https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU21/EGU21-3308.html
Unique heliophysics science opportunities along the Interstellar Probe journey up to 1000 AU from the Sun
https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU21/EGU21-10504.html
“In-System” Fission-Events: An Insight into Puzzles of Exoplanets and Stars?
https://www.mdpi.com/2218-1997/7/5/118
Theoretical Constraints Imposed by Gradient Detection and Dispersal on Microbial Size in Astrobiological Environments
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2020.2392
TOI-1431b/MASCARA-5b: A Highly Irradiated Ultra-Hot Jupiter Orbiting One of the Hottest & Brightest Known Exoplanet Host Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.12078
The Detectability of Binary Star Planetary and Brown Dwarf Companions From Eclipse Timing Variations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.12316
The obliquity and atmosphere of the ultra-hot Jupiter TOI-1431b (MASCARA-5b): A misaligned orbit and no signs of atomic or molecular absorptions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.12414
An Open-Source Bayesian Atmospheric Radiative Transfer (BART) Code: I. Design, Tests, and Application to Exoplanet HD 189733 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.12522
An Open-source Bayesian Atmospheric Radiative Transfer (BART) Code: II. The {\transit} Radiative-Transfer Module and Retrieval of HAT-P-11b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.12524
An open-source Bayesian atmospheric radiative transfer (BART) code: III. Initialization, atmospheric profile generator, post-processing routines, and application to exoplanet WASP-43b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.12525
An N-body population synthesis framework for the formation of moons around Jupiter-like planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.11513
Understanding Pulsars and Space Navigations
https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811610660
Reanalysis of the Mars500 experiment reveals common gut microbiome alterations in astronauts induced by long-duration confinement
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2001037021001306
Inverse Design of Diffractive Relativistic Meta‐Sails via Multi‐Objective Optimization
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adts.202100047
Chance, Calculation and Life
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119823971
Direct imaging and spectroscopy of exoplanets with the ELT/HARMONI high-contrast module
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.11251
Inclination-type resonance in two-planet systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.11611
Dry or water world? How the water contents of inner sub-Neptunes constrain giant planet formation and the location of the water ice line
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.11631
