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The Transiting Multi-planet System HD15337: Two Nearly Equal-mass Planets Straddling the Radius Gap
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332917583
Variability in the Atmosphere of the Hot Jupiter Kepler-76b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.07781
Exoplanetary Monte Carlo Radiative Transfer with Correlated-k I. Benchmarking Transit and Emission Observables
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.08132
OGLE-2018-BLG-0532Lb: Cold Neptune With Possible Jovian Sibling
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.08148
A Neutrino Beacon
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.05184
The SpaceDrive project – Thrust balance development and new measurements of the Mach-Effect and EMDrive Thrusters
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009457651832071X
Stellar Flybys Interrupting Planet-Planet Scattering Generates Oort Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.07044
The Need for Laboratory Measurements and Ab Initio Studies to Aid Understanding of Exoplanetary Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.07064
The Detectability and Characterization of the TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanet Atmospheres with JWST
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.07070
Does the evolution of complex life depend on the stellar spectral energy distribution?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.07343
K2-295 b and K2-237 b: two transiting hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.05865
Modeling atmospheric escape and Mg II near-ultraviolet absorption of the highly irradiated hot Jupiter WASP-12b
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz1345/5490374
VPLanet: The Virtual Planet Simulator
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.06367
The Pressure and Temperature Limits of Likely Rocky Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.06530
Detecting the General Relativistic Orbital Precession of the Exoplanet HD 80606b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.06630
A chemical kinetics code for modelling exoplanetary atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.06826
Secondary eclipse of the hot Jupiter WASP-121b at 2 μm
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2019/05/aa34325-18
Evidence of Systematic Errors in Spitzer Microlens Parallax Measurements
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.05794
Optimizing Ground-based Observations of O2 in Earth Analogs
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.05862
Spitzer Parallax of OGLE-2018-BLG-0596: A Low-mass-ratio Planet around an M-dwarf
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.05873
Kepler Planet Occurrence Rates for Mid-Type M Dwarfs as a Function of Spectral Type
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.05900
Ground-based follow-up observations of TRAPPIST-1 transits in the near-infrared
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.06035
Star-planet tidal interaction and the limits of gyrochronology
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.06070
The role of small telescopes as a ground-based support for exoplanetary space missions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.06126
TESS Spots a Compact System of Super-Earths around the Naked-Eye Star HR 858
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.05193
Validation of a Temperate Fourth Planet in the K2-133 Multi-planet System
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.05206
Discovery and Characterization of Kepler-36b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.05229
KMT-2018-BLG-1990Lb: A Nearby Jovian Planet From A Low-Cadence Microlensing Field
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.05509
Kepler-62f: Kepler’s First Small Planet in the Habitable Zone, but Is It Real?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.05719
