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Brown Dwarf Atmospheres As The Potentially Most Detectable And Abundant Sites For Life
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.11410
The Chaotic Nature of TRAPPIST-1 Planetary Spin States
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.11419
Characterizing K2 Candidate Planetary Systems Orbiting Low-Mass Stars IV: Updated Properties for 86 Cool Dwarfs Observed During Campaigns 1-17
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.11457
Advanced Diffractive MetaFilm Sailcraft NIAC Phase I Final Report
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20190025234.pdf
Nuclear microbomb propulsion for manned deep space exploration with return travel
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576519306101
Formation Design of Distributed Telescopes in Earth Orbit for Astrophysics Applications
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.A34420
Transit-period search from single-event space-based data: the role of wide-field surveys
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2019/05/aa35349-19
An Ensemble of Bayesian Neural Networks for Exoplanetary Atmospheric Retrieval
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.10659
Characterization of the L 98-59 multi-planetary system with HARPS: two confirmed terrestrial planets and a mass upper limit on the third
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.10669
The Revised TESS Input Catalog and Candidate Target List
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.10694
Constraints on HD113337 fundamental parameters and planetary system. Combining long-base visible interferometry, disk imaging and high-contrast imaging
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.11156
Precise photometric transit follow-up observations of five close-in exoplanets : update on their physical properties
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.11258
Gradient-index Solar Sail and its Optimal Orbital Control
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.10977
Universe Sandbox ²
http://universesandbox.com/
OGLE-2015-BLG-1670Lb: A Cold Neptune beyond the Snow Line in the Provisional WFIRST Microlensing Survey Field
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab141b
The Transcension Hypothesis: Sufficiently Advanced Civilizations May Invariably Leave Our Universe, and Implications for METI and SETI.
https://www.accelerating.org/articles/transcensionhypothesis.html
Transiting exocomets detected in broadband light by TESS in the β Pictoris system
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2019/05/aa35552-19
Human Colonization of Other Worlds
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/futures/vol/110/suppl/C
AutoRegressive Planet Search: Application to the Kepler Mission
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.09852
Distinguishing Polar and Co-planar Circumbinary Exoplanets by Eclipsing Timing Variations
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.10179
Exoplanet has rare earths
https://academic.oup.com/astrogeo/article-abstract/60/3/3.5/5497883
TESS spots first Earth-size exoplanet
https://academic.oup.com/astrogeo/article-abstract/60/3/3.7/5497886
ARIEL seeks AI help for exoplanets
https://academic.oup.com/astrogeo/article-abstract/60/3/3.9/5497890
No Evidence for Lunar Transit in New Analysis of Hubble Space Telescope Observations of the Kepler-1625 System
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab20c8
Enhanced Habitability on High Obliquity Bodies near the Outer Edge of the Habitable Zone of Sun-like Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.09398
Simulated Phase-dependent Spectra of Terrestrial Aquaplanets in M Dwarf Systems
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab184a
Water delivery to the TRAPPIST-1 planets
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz1412/5497935
The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs Detection of a mini-Neptune around LSPM J2116+0234 and refinement of orbital parameters of a super-Earth around GJ 686 (BD+18 3421)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.09075
The Effect of 3D Transport-Induced Disequilibrium Carbon Chemistry on the Atmospheric Structure and Phase Curves and Emission Spectra of Hot Jupiter HD 189733b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.02011
The Exoplanet Population Observation Simulator. II – Population Synthesis in the Era of Kepler
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.08804
