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Earth First Origins Project Seeks To Replicate the Cradle of Life
https://news.rpi.edu/content/2019/02/14/earth-first-origins-project-seeks-replicate-cradle-life
The survivability of planetary systems in young and dense star clusters
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04652
A limited habitable zone for complex life
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04720
A reduced chemical scheme for modelling warm to hot hydrogen-dominated atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04939
K2-290: a warm Jupiter and a mini-Neptune in a triple-star system
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.03716
The DECam Minute Cadence Survey II: 49 Variables but No Planetary Transits of a White Dwarf
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04075
SPHERE: the exoplanet imager for the Very Large Telescope
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04080
Stellar Activity Effects on Moist Habitable Terrestrial Atmospheres Around M dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04086
ISPY – the NaCo Imaging Survey for Planets around Young stars: A young companion candidate embedded in the R CrA cloud
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04092
Observing the gas component of circumplanetary disks around wide-orbit planet-mass companions in the (sub)mm regime
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04096
Could 1I/’Oumuamua be an icy fractal aggregate ejected from a protoplanetary disk? A fluffy radiation-pressure-driven scenario
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04100
HARPS-N Solar Radial-Velocity Variations Are Dominated By Large, Bright Magnetic Regions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04184
Dusty outflows in planetary atmospheres: Understanding “super-puffs” and transmission spectra of sub-Neptunes
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04188
Heavy metal rules. I. Exoplanet incidence and metallicity
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04493
The Fermi Paradox and the Aurora Effect: Exo-civilization Settlement, Expansion and Steady States
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04450
NASA minimizes threat of JWST delay from shutdown
https://spacenews.com/nasa-minimizes-threat-of-jwst-delay-from-shutdown/
New NASA Team Tackles Next Challenges in Detecting Life Beyond Earth
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/new-nasa-team-tackles-next-challenges-in-detecting-life-beyond-earth
The Network for Life Detection
https://www.nfold.org/
The Laboratory for Agnostic Biosignatures
https://www.agnosticbiosignatures.org/
Nexus for Exoplanet System Science
https://nexss.info/
A water budget dichotomy of rocky protoplanets from 26Al-heating
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04026
Interstellar Travels On Board of Photon Rockets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.03869
Can a machine learn the outcome of planetary collisions?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04052
Three transiting planet discoveries from the Wide Angle Search for Planets: WASP-85 A b; WASP-116 b, and WASP-149 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.7761
Thermo-compositional diabatic convection in the atmospheres of brown dwarfs and in Earth’s atmosphere and oceans
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.03553
Should N-body integrators be symplectic everywhere in phase space?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.03684
Stellar energetic particles in the magnetically turbulent habitable zones of TRAPPIST-1-like planetary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.03732
Tidal Heating and the Habitability of the TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.03867
A resonant pair of warm giant planets revealed by TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.03900
First observation of a planetary transit with the SPARC4 CCD: improved parameters for HATS-24b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.03924
The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Chromospheric modeling of M2-3 V stars with PHOENIX
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.03992
Exo-Astrosociology and the Search for Technosignatures
http://www.astrosociology.org/Library/PDF/JPass–Exo-AstrosociologyAndTechnosignatures.pdf
Some Assembly Required: Giant Next-Generation Space Telescopes Could Be Built Off Earth
https://www.space.com/43273-building-big-space-observatories-off-earth.html
Is Earth special?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825218306524
Speeding past planets? Asteroids radiatively propelled by giant branch Yarkovsky effects
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.02795
NASA’s Webb Is Sound After Completing Critical Milestones
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12552
Free Vibration and Buckling of a Stripped Solar Sail
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/full/10.2514/1.A34342
Machine Vision and Deep Learning for Classification of Radio SETI Signals
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.02426
