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A Model-independent Mass and Moderate Eccentricity for β Pic b
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aafb31
Formation of Hot Jupiters through Secular Chaos and Dynamical Tides
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.05006
AutoRegressive Planet Search: Methodology
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.05116
HADES RV programme with HARPS-N at TNG. X. A super-Earth around the M dwarf Gl686
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.05338
‘Oumuamua’s Geometry Could be More Extreme than Previously Inferred
https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/SL.pdf
Parasitic SETI and Parasitic Space Science
http://geopolicraticus.tumblr.com/post/182049010987/parasitic-seti-and-parasitic-space-science
The implications of clustered star formation for (proto)planetary systems and habitability
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.04491
A Pair of Planets Likely in Mean-Motion Resonance From Gravitational Microlensing
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.04495
EPIC 247418783b: A rocky super-Earth in a 2.2 day orbit
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.04558
Revisiting the dynamics of planets in binaries: evolutionary timescales and the effect of early stellar evolution
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.04582
Water delivery by pebble accretion to rocky planets in habitable zones in evolving disks
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.04611
Multiverse Predictions for Habitability: The Number of Stars and their Properties
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.04614
Self-supervised Anomaly Detection for Narrowband SETI
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.04636
A transiting super-Earth close to the inner edge of the habitable zone of an M0 dwarf star
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.04739
EPIC 249624646: a warm Jupiter and a mini-Neptune in a triple-star system
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.03716
Towards More Reliable Analytic Thermochemical-equilibrium Abundances
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.03764
Lessons for WFIRST CGI from ground-based high-contrast systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.04049
Key Technologies for the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope Coronagraph Instrument
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.04050
A search for technosignatures from TRAPPIST-1, LHS 1140, and 10 planetary systems in the Kepler field with the Green Bank Telescope at 1.15-1.73 GHz
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.04057
Reference star differential imaging of close-in companions and circumstellar disks with the NIRC2 vortex coronagraph at W.M. Keck Observatory
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.04090
Interstellar Probes: The Benefits to Astronomy & Astrophysics
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.04422
X-ray, UV, Optical Irradiances and Age of Barnard’s Star’s new Super-earth Planet:—“Can Life Find a Way” on such cold Planet?
http://clusty.ast.villanova.edu/gallery/Barnard_Poster_AAS2019.pdf
First Stop on the Interstellar Journey: The Solar Gravity Lens Focus
http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2018.71.275
Plasma Dynamics in Firefly’s Z-pinch Fusion Engine
http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2018.71.288
Gram-Scale Nano-Spacecraft Entry into Star Systems
http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2018.71.294
The Interstellar Fusion Fuel Resource Base of Our Solar System
http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2018.71.298
Tests of Fundamental Physics in Interstellar Flight
http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2018.71.306
Technosearch
https://technosearch.seti.org/
Post-conjunction detection of β Pictoris b with VLT/SPHERE
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2019/01/aa34302-18/aa34302-18.html
Extrasolar planets and brown dwarfs around AF-type stars X. The SOPHIE sample: combining the SOPHIE and HARPS surveys to compute the close giant planet mass-period distribution around AF-type stars
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2019/01/aa33431-18/aa33431-18.html
Exoplanet Atmosphere Forecast: Observers Should Expect Spectroscopic Transmission Features to be Muted to 33%
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/aafc63
How planetary growth outperforms migration
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.00523
Climate sensitivity to ozone and its relevance on the habitability of Earth-like planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02897
Climate Sensitivity to Carbon Dioxide and Moist Greenhouse threshold of Earth-like planets under an increasing solar forcing
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02901
Simulating Non-hydrostatic atmospheres on Planets (SNAP): formulation, validation and application to the Jovian atmosphere
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02955
