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Expanding the Timeline for Earth’s Photosynthetic Red Edge Biosignature
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab2769
Transiting Quasites as a Possible Technosignature
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab2fdb
Simulations of a High-Contrast Single-Mode Fiber Coronagraphic Multi-Object Spectrograph for Future Space Telescopes
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.03921
WASP-166b: a bloated super-Neptune transiting a V = 9 star
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.05292
Evidence for 3 new multi-planet systems from TESS using a Bayesian N-body retrieval and machine learning
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.03377
Peering through SPHERE Images: A Glance at Contrast Limitations
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.03624
Signatures of the Core-Powered Mass-Loss Mechanism in the Exoplanet Population: Dependence on Stellar Properties and Observational Predictions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.03732
HD 1397b: A Transiting Warm Giant Planet Orbiting A V = 7.8 mag Subgiant Star Discovered by TESS
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab279a
Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) In-Space Propulsion Demo Formulation
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20190026793.pdf
Final Masses of Giant Planets III: Effect of Photoevaporation and a New Planetary Migration Model
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.02627
Envelopes of embedded super-Earths II. Three-dimensional isothermal simulations
Https://Arxiv.Org/Abs/1907.02763
Transiting planet candidate from K2 with the longest period
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.08757
On Possible Types of Magnetosopheres of Hot Jupiters
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063772919070096
Activity of Five Young Dwarfs with Planetary Systems
Https://Link.Springer.Com/Article/10.1134/S1063772919060039
In-flight photometry extraction of PLATO targets – Optimal apertures for detecting extrasolar planets
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2019/07/aa35269-19/aa35269-19.html
Fundamental Planetary Science: Physics, Chemistry and Habitability
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/fundamental-planetary-science/8FD11659BE64C35A172DF0432D7FCFA4
On the patterns observed in Kepler multi-planet systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.02074
Constraining the Radio Emission of TRAPPIST-1
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.02112
STScI to design science operations for new panoramic space telescope
https://spacenewsfeed.com/index.php/news/3411-stsci-to-design-science-operations-for-new-panoramic-space-telescope
Exchange of material between solar systems by random stellar encounters
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/exchange-of-material-between-solar-systems-by-random-stellar-encounters/298F8D4D53D996C81091BE61B1438BA2
Biotechnology and the lifetime of technical civilizations
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/biotechnology-and-the-lifetime-of-technical-civilizations/53CC22A9D6F980FBFDC8D1C344F9651D
The habitable zone for Earth-like exomoons orbiting Kepler-1625b
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/habitable-zone-for-earthlike-exomoons-orbiting-kepler1625b/D8A5CEB8416914F2CD0D9B275F4E8FBB
OGLE-2018-BLG-1011L\lowercase{b,c}: Microlensing Planetary System with Two Giant Planets Orbiting a Low-mass Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.01741
How well do we understand the belt/zone circulation of Giant Planet atmospheres?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.01822
Envelopes of embedded super-Earths I. Two-dimensional simulations
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.01951
An Eccentric Massive Jupiter Orbiting a Sub-Giant on a 9.5 Day Period Discovered in the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite Full Frame Images
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.09950
