Mass distribution of exoplanets considering some observation selection effects in the transit detection technique
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103520301603
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April 3, 2020 updates
Interstellar Comet Borisov is no longer in one piece
https://www.space.com/interstellar-comet-borisov-two-pieces.html
Is there Na I in the atmosphere of HD 209458b? – Effect of the centre-to-limb variation and Rossiter-McLaughlin effect in transmission spectroscopy studies
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/03/aa37221-19/aa37221-19.html
Earth’s Polar Night Boundary Layer as an Analog for Dark Side Inversions on Synchronously Rotating Terrestrial Exoplanets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab7fb3
WASP-4 is Accelerating Toward the Earth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.00637
Tidal friction in satellites and planets. The new version of the creep tide theory
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.01109
April 2, 2020 updates
Is the Kuiper Belt Inhabited?
http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2019.72.382
A Preliminary Mass for Proxima Centauri C
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab84f3
Smaller than expected bright-spot offsets in Spitzer phase curves of the hot Jupiter Qatar-1b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.00014
April 1, 2020 updates
The Solar System: Favored for Space Travel
https://bio-complexity.org/ojs/index.php/main/article/viewArticle/BIO-C.2020.1
Intermittent signals and planetary days in SETI
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/intermittent-signals-and-planetary-days-in-seti/C82E96F87F60F2833576357CEE32FDFB
Super‐Earth internal structures and initial thermal states
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2019JE006124
Robustly detecting changes in warm Jupiters’ transit impact parameters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.13796
Retrograde-rotating exoplanets experience obliquity excitations in an eccentricity-enabled resonance
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.13864
Resolving Exo-Continents with Einstein Ring Deconvolution
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.13918
Thermally Driven Angular Momentum Transport in Hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.14044
Physical Characterisation of Interstellar Comet 2I/2019 Q4 (Borisov)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.14064
Outstanding Challenges of Exoplanet Atmospheric Retrievals
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.14311
Allesfitter: Flexible Star and Exoplanet Inference From Photometry and Radial Velocity
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.14371
Kepler’s Dark Worlds: a Low Albedo for an Ensemble of Neptunian and Terran Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.10213
March 31, 2020 updates
Humanity’s Journey to Interstellar Space
http://interstellarprobe.jhuapl.edu/
3rd Annual Interstellar Probe Exploration Workshop
https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/interstellarprobe2020/
MIRACLES: atmospheric characterization of directly imaged planets and substellar companions at 4–5 μm – I. Photometric analysis of β Pic b, HIP 65426 b, PZ Tel B, and HD 206893 B
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/03/aa37159-19/aa37159-19.html
Characteristics of ion beams generated in the interaction of ultra-short laser pulses with ultra-thin foils
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6587/ab7d26
Zodiacal Exoplanets in Time. X. The Orbit and Atmosphere of the Young “Neptune Desert”-Dwelling Planet K2-100b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.12940
The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. A super-Earth planet orbiting HD 79211 (GJ 338 B)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.13052
Orbital inclination and mass of the exoplanet candidate Proxima c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.13106
The Most Common Habitable Planets II — Salty Oceans in Low Mass Habitable Planets and Global Climate Evolution
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.13107
From Super-Earths to Mini-Neptunes: Implications of a Surface on Atmospheric Circulation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.13348
Stellar Driven Evolution of Hydrogen-Dominated Atmospheres from Earth-Like to Super-Earth-Type Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.13412
The Habitability of Large Elliptical Galaxies
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.13643
Evidence for He I 10830 Å~ absorption during the transit of a warm Neptune around the M-dwarf GJ 3470 with the Habitable-zone Planet Finder
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.02070