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The Shadow Biosphere Hypothesis: Non-knowledge in Emerging Disciplines
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0162243919881207
Europe dreams big for future space missions
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6464/410
Susceptibility of planetary atmospheres to mass loss and growth by planetesimal impacts: the impact shoreline
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.10731
Angular Momentum and Heat Transport on Tidally Locked Hot Jupiter Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.10760
Breakthrough Listen to Collaborate with Scientists from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) Team to Look for Signs of Advanced Extraterrestrial Life
https://breakthroughinitiatives.org/news/27
Telescope seeks clues to exoplanet interiors
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6462/169
An updated visual orbit of the directly-imaged exoplanet 51 Eridani b and prospects for a dynamical mass measurement with Gaia
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.10169
Regime transition between eddy-driven and moist-driven circulation on High Obliquity Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.10250
New Insights into Interstellar Object 1I/2017 U1 (`Oumuamua) from SOHO/STEREO Nondetections
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.10303
Simulation of an Antimatter Beam Core Engine for Space Travel
https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation.aspx?paperid=95763
ESA Voyage 2050 white paper — Faint objects in motion: the new frontier of high precision astrometry
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.08028
How Stellar Flares and Storms Regulate Atmospheric Losses from the TRAPPIST-1 Planets
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019ESS…..431901D/abstract
JexoSim: A time domain simulator of exoplanet transit spectroscopy with JWST
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz2958/5602604
The Difficulty of Predicting Stellar Occultations by Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab4efb
Searching for Planets Orbiting Alpha Centauri A with the James Webb Space Telescope
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.09709
Stellar Proton Event-induced surface radiation dose as a constraint on the habitability of terrestrial exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.09871
The Kepler-11 system: evolution of the stellar high-energy emission and {initial planetary} atmospheric mass fractions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.09877
Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds
https://exoplanets.psu.edu/
No further evidence for a transiting inner companion to the hot Jupiter HATS‐50b
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.201913649
Revised Astrometric Calibration of the Gemini Planet Imager
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.08659
Are long-term N-body simulations reliable?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.08667
Exoplanet direct imaging in ground-based conditions on THD2 bench
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.09064
2I/Borisov: A C2 depleted interstellar comet
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.09078
Temporal Variability in Hot Jupiter Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.09523
Percolation clusters of organics in interstellar ice grains as the incubators of life
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0079610718301664
Are 2I/Borisov and Oort Cloud Comets Alike?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.08208
A super-Earth and a mini-Neptune around Kepler-59
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.08522
A search for multi-planet systems with TESS using a Bayesian N-body retrieval and machine learning
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.03377
