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Future Stellar Flybys of the Voyager and Pioneer Spacecraft
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab158e
X-ray Studies of Exoplanets: A 2020 Decadal Survey White Paper
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.04320
Stellar activity and rotation of the planet host Kepler-17 from long-term space-borne photometry
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.04489
Faster Water Escape on High Obliquity Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.04740
Lessons from early Earth: UV surface radiation should not limit the habitability of active M star systems
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/485/4/5598/5426502
Exoplanetary Atmospheres: Key Insights, Challenges and Prospects
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.03190
Orbital relaxation and excitation of planets tidally interacting with white dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.03195
The Impact of Stellar Surface Magnetoconvection and Oscillations on the Detection of Temperate, Earth-Mass Planets Around Sun-Like Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.03200
The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs: Different roads to radii and masses of the target stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.03231
Exoplanet atmospheres with GIANO II. Detection of molecular absorption in the dayside spectrum of HD 102195b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.04170
Efficient Searches for Galactic Stream Interstellar Asteroids
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330765570_Efficient_Searches_for_Galactic_Stream_Interstellar_Asteroids
A Maximum Subsurface Biomass on Mars from Untapped Free Energy: CO and H2 as Potential Antibiosignatures
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2018.1835
Detectability of atmospheric features of Earth-like planets in the habitable zone around M dwarfs
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2019/04/aa34504-18/aa34504-18.html
K 2 Ultracool Dwarfs Survey. V. High superflare rates on rapidly rotating late-M dwarfs
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz886/5427921
Revisiting the Biological Ramifications of Variations in Earth’s Magnetic Field
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab12eb
How stars and planets interact: A look through the high‐energy window
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.201913619
Exocometary Science
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.02715
Identifying Exoplanets with Deep Learning III: Automated Triage and Vetting of TESS Candidates
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.02726
MASCARA-4 b/bRing-1b – A retrograde hot Jupiter around the bright A3V star HD 85628
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.02733
The sub-Jupiter/Neptune desert of exoplanets: parameter dependent boundaries and implications on planet formation
https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/article-abstract/485/1/L116/5427910
Evidence against non-gravitational acceleration of 1I/2017 U1 `Oumuamua
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.02218
Exciting mutual inclination in planetary systems with a distant stellar companion: the case of Kepler-108
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.02290
Evaluating Climate Variability Of The Canonical Hot Jupiters Hd 189733b & Hd 209458b Through Multi-epoch Eclipse Observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.02294
Nonthermal Emission from the Interaction of Magnetized Exoplanets with the Wind of Their Host Star
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab108d
The vast potential of exoplanet satellites for high‐energy astrophysics
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.201913615
A possibly inflated planet around the bright, young star DS Tuc A
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.01591
High-precision analysis of binary stars with planets. I. Searching for condensation temperature trends in the HD 106515 system
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.01955
Storms or Systematics? The changing secondary eclipse depth of WASP-12b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.01973
Climate of an Ultra hot Jupiter: Spectroscopic phase curve of WASP-18b with HST/WFC3
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.02069
Characterization of Exoplanet Atmospheres with the Optical Coronagraph on WFIRST
https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.08964
