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Life Beyond the Habitable Zone
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020nova.pres.6280K/abstract
Transit Duration Variations in Multiplanet Systems
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab8067
Shallow transit follow‐up from Next‐Generation Transit Survey: Simultaneous observations of HD 106315 with 11 identical telescopes
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.202013768
Dust Environment Model of the Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab8455
Molecular Cross Sections for High Resolution Spectroscopy of Super Earths, Warm Neptunes and Hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.04160
Photochemistry of Anoxic Abiotic Habitable Planet Atmospheres: Impact of New H2O Cross-Sections
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.04185
Impossible moons — Transit timing effects that cannot be due to an exomoon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.04230
Revised mass-radius relationships for water-rich rocky planets more irradiated than the runaway greenhouse limit
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.08878
Updated Parameters and a New Transmission Spectrum of HD 97658b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.03601
Detectability of Life Using Oxygen on Pelagic Planets and Water Worlds
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.03631
Global Mapping of the Surface Composition on an Exo-Earth using Color Variability
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.03931
Global Mapping of an Exo-Earth using Sparse Modeling
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.03941
The Astrobiological Copernican Weak and Strong Limits for Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.03968
Multidimensional Habitability: Exploring the Possibility of Life Beyond Earth
https://www.academia.edu/33461406/Multidimensional_Habitability_Exploring_the_Possibility_of_Life_Beyond_Earth
Antimatter Propulsion
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20200001904.pdf
Atmospheric convection plays a key role in the climate of tidally-locked terrestrial exoplanets: insights from high-resolution simulations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.03007
Tidal Oscillations of Rotating Hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.03094
Optical to near-infrared transmission spectrum of the warm sub-Saturn HAT-P-12b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.03551
Sulfur-driven haze formation in warm CO2-rich exoplanet atmospheres
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1072-9
Formation of secondary atmospheres on terrestrial planets by late disk accretion
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1050-2
Modelling the He I triplet absorption at 10 830 Å in the atmosphere of HD 209458 b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/04/aa37175-19/aa37175-19.html
Extremely long convergence times in a 3D GCM simulation of the sub-Neptune Gliese 1214b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.01829
Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov exhibits a structure similar to native Solar System comets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.02033
Exomoon indicators in high-precision transit light curves
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.02259
