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High-Resolution Transmission Spectra of Earth through Geological Time
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.11149
Simulations of Water Vapor and Clouds on Rapidly Rotating and Tidally Locked Planets: a 3D Model Intercomparison
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.11329
Transition from eyeball to snowball driven by sea-ice drift on tidally locked terrestrial planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.11377
Dispersed Matter Planet Project discoveries of ablating planets orbiting nearby bright stars
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-019-0973-y
An ablating 2.6 M⊕ planet in an eccentric binary from the Dispersed Matter Planet Project
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-019-0972-z
A compact multi-planet system around a bright nearby star from the Dispersed Matter Planet Project
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-019-0974-x
TOI 564 b and TOI 905 b: Grazing and Fully Transiting Hot Jupiters Discovered by TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.10186
A search for the origin of the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.10213
Gemini-GRACES high-quality spectra of Kepler evolved stars with transiting planets I. Detailed characterization of multi-planet systems Kepler-278 and Kepler-391
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.10278
The Detectability and Constraints of Biosignature Gases in the Near & Mid-Infrared from Transit Transmission Spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.10939
Orbital Stability of Circumstellar Planets in Binary Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.11019
Probable cold and alkaline surface environment of the Hadean Earth caused by impact ejecta weathering
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2019GC008734
OGLE-2013-BLG-0911Lb: A Secondary on the Brown-Dwarf Planet Boundary around an M-dwarf
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.09613
SVEEEETIES: Singular vector expansion to estimate Earth-like exoplanet temperatures from infrared emission spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.09706
A real-life deluminator for spotting exoplanets by reflected starlight
https://phys.org/news/2019-12-real-life-deluminator-exoplanets-starlight.html
Static traversable wormholes in f(R, T) = R + 2α ln T gravity
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0577907319309141
Survival of Primordial Planetary Atmospheres: Photodissociation Driven Mass Loss
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.08820
The Exo.MAST Table for JWST Exoplanet Atmosphere Observability
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab62a1
Dim Prospects for Transmission Spectra of Ocean Earths Around M Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.08235
Chemical abundances of 1111 FGK stars from the HARPS-GTO planet search sample. III. Sulfur
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.08659
Tidal evolution of circumbinary systems with arbitrary eccentricities: applications for Kepler systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.08728
Ozone chemistry on tidally locked M dwarf planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.08743
Clouds will likely prevent the detection of water vapor in JWST transmission spectra of terrestrial exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.08781
