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PyLightcurve-torch: a transit modelling package for deep learning applications in PyTorch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.02030
SPECULOOS — Ultracool Dwarf Transit Survey: Target List and Strategy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.02069
Activity time series of old stars from late F to early K. V. Effect on exoplanet detectability with high-precision astrometry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.02158
Generalized Stoichiometry and Biogeochemistry for Astrobiological Applications
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.02425
From Earth-Orbit Space Colonies to Deep-Space and Interstellar Habitats and Worldships: Solving the Economics
https://jbis.org.uk/paper/2020.73.382
Effect of mantle oxidation state and escape upon the evolution of Earth’s magma ocean atmosphere
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/11/aa38779-20/aa38779-20.html
A Fast, Two-dimensional Gaussian Process Method Based on Celerite: Applications to Transiting Exoplanet Discovery and Characterization
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abbc16
Atmospheric Rossiter-McLaughlin effect and transmission spectroscopy of WASP-121b with ESPRESSO
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.01245
The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs — LP 714-47b (TOI 442.01): Populating the Neptune desert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.01716
The widest broadband transmission spectrum (0.38–1.71 μm) of HD 189733b from ground-based chromatic Rossiter–McLaughlin observations
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/11/aa39213-20/aa39213-20.html
The eccentricity distribution of giant planets and their relation to super-Earths in the pebble accretion scenario
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/11/aa38856-20/aa38856-20.html
Reflected Light Observations of the Galilean Satellites from Cassini: A Test Bed for Cold Terrestrial Exoplanets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abb8df
Dynamical Mass Estimates of the β Pictoris Planetary System through Gaussian Process Stellar Activity Modeling
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abba30
Identifying Exoplanets with Deep Learning. IV. Removing Stellar Activity Signals from Radial Velocity Measurements Using Neural Networks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.00003
Separating planetary reflex Doppler shifts from stellar variability in the wavelength domain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.00018
The Three Dimensional Flow Field Around Planets on Eccentric Orbits
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.00022
A new perspective on interiors of ice-rich planets: Ice-rock mixture rather than a layered structure
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.00602
Evaluating the Effect of Four Unknown Parameters Included in a Latitudinal Energy Balance Model on the Habitability of Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.06907
Curvature Invariants for the Alcubierre and Natário Warp Drives
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.13693
Space travel by reduced effective mass after induced matter theory
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2020-4171
Design Reference Mission Development for Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Enabled Science Missions
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2020-4126
Laser Fusion Propulsion using Extreme CPA-Laser Pulses for Boron Fusion
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2020-4081
A Future for Leptonic Fuels
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2020-4204
The Pulsed Fission-Fusion (PuFF) Engine – Nacelle Concept and Development Roadmap
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2020-4082
In-Space Fabrication and Growth of Affordable Large Interior Rotating Habitats
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2020-4193
The Concept of Developmental Relativity: Thoughts on the Technological Synchrony of Interstellar Civilizations
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0265964620300333
Thresholds in origin of life scenarios
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004220309536
Evolutionary History of Bioessential Elements Can Guide the Search for Life in the Universe
https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cbic.202000500
TOI 122b and TOI 237b, two small warm planets orbiting inactive M dwarfs, found by \textit{TESS}
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.15905
Lessons Learned from the 1st ARIEL Machine Learning Challenge: Correcting Transiting Exoplanet Light Curves for Stellar Spots
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.15996
HAT-P-68b: A Transiting Hot Jupiter Around a K5 Dwarf Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.16026
Atmospheric Nitrogen When Life Evolved on Earth
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2019.2212
WASP-127b: A misaligned planet with a partly cloudy atmosphere and tenuous sodium signature seen by ESPRESSO
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.15143
Temperature inversions on hot super-Earths: the case of CN in nitrogen-rich atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.15152
Science Extraction from TESS Observations of Known Exoplanet Hosts
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.15164
Survivor bias: divergent fates of the Solar System’s ejected vs. persisting planetesimals
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.15147
WASP-186 and WASP-187: two hot Jupiters discovered by SuperWASP and SOPHIE with additional observations by TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.15205
Effects of capturing a wide-orbit planet on planetary systems: system stability and Habitable Zone bombardment rates
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.15448
