Helios-r.2 — A new Bayesian, open-source retrieval model for brown dwarfs and exoplanet atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.01070
Life on Miller’s Planet: The Habitable Zone Around Supermassive Black Holes
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.00940
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October 2, 2019 updates
The Precision of Mass Measurements Required for Robust Atmospheric Characterization of Transiting Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.00076
Rapid escape of ultra-hot exoplanet atmospheres driven by Hydrogen Balmer absorption
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.00267
Toward the Analysis of JWST Exoplanet Spectra: the effective temperature in the context of direct imaging
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.00329
Multi-season optical modulation phased with the orbit of the super-Earth 55 Cnc e
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.00383
Active minimization of non-common path aberrations in long-exposure imaging of exoplanetary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.00573
October 1, 2019 updates
The polarimetric imaging mode of VLT/SPHERE/IRDIS I: Description, data reduction and observing strategy
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.13107
The polarimetric imaging mode of VLT/SPHERE/IRDIS II: Characterization and correction of instrumental polarization effects
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.13108
Exoplanet characterisation in the longest known resonant chain: the K2-138 system seen by HARPS
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.13527
An examination of the effect of the TESS extended mission on southern hemisphere monotransits
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.13546
September 30, 2019 updates
The Lost Planets: Peter van de Kamp and the Vanishing Exoplanets around Barnard’s Star
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/lost-planets
The Habitability of GJ 357D: Possible Climate and Observability
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab3d40
What is Transiting HD 139139?
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab465c
A toolbox for identifying the expression of dome-forming volcanism on exoplanets
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0032063319302648
Extrasolar Kuiper Belts
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.12312
NGTS-10b: The shortest period hot Jupiter yet discovered
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.12424
On physical interpretations of the reference transit radius of gas-giant exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.12639
September 27, 2019 updates
A giant exoplanet orbiting a very-low-mass star challenges planet formation models
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.12174
Nucleobase synthesis in interstellar ices
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12404-1
Kojima-1Lb is a Mildly Cold Neptune around the Brightest Microlensing Host Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.11802
Planet and star synergy at high spectral resolution. A rationale for the characterisation of exoplanet atmospheres. I. The Infrared
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.11807
Detection of CN gas in Interstellar Object 2I/Borisov
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.12144