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Trivalent Phosphorus and Phosphines as Components of Biochemistry in Anoxic Environments
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2018.1958
Mapping out the time-evolution of exoplanet processes
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.09110
Atmospheric variability driven by radiative cloud feedback in brown dwarfs and directly imaged extrasolar giant planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.06467
An Astrobiology Strategy for the Search for Life in the Universe
https://www.nap.edu/catalog/25252/an-astrobiology-strategy-for-the-search-for-life-in-the-universe
Understanding Gaia
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-11449-7
Testing the value of artificial gravity for astronaut health
https://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Testing_the_value_of_artificial_gravity_for_astronaut_health
Measurement of the Free-Floating Planet Mass Function with Simultaneous Euclid and WFIRST Microlensing Parallax Observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.08180
Masses and Distances of Planetary Microlens Systems with High Angular Resolution Imaging
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.08185
Spectroscopic Transit Search: a self-calibrating method for detecting planets around bright stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.08186
Wide-Orbit Exoplanet Demographics
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.08187
The Scientific Context of WFIRST Microlensing in the 2020s
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.08219
The Promise of Data Science for the Technosignatures Field
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.08381
The Search for Extra-Galactic Intelligence Signal Synchronized with a Binary Neutron Star Merger
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.06024
Engaging Citizen Scientists to Keep Transit Times Fresh and Ensure the Efficient Use of Transiting Exoplanet Characterization Missions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.07716
WASP-180Ab: Doppler tomography of an hot Jupiter orbiting the primary star in a visual binary
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.08002
The L 98-59 System: Three Transiting, Terrestrial-Sized Planets Orbiting a Nearby M-dwarf
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.08017
Searching for Exosatellites Orbiting L and T Dwarfs: Connecting Planet Formation to Moon Formation and Finding New Temperate Worlds
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.08090
Hint of curvature in the orbital motion of the exoplanet 51 Eridani b using 3 years of VLT/SPHERE monitoring
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.07620
Rethinking CO Antibiosignatures in the Search for Life Beyond the Solar System
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab05e1
Transit Lyman-α signatures of terrestrial planets in the habitable zones of M dwarfs
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2019/03/aa33941-18/aa33941-18.html
The Asteroseismic Target List for Solar-like Oscillators Observed in 2 minute Cadence with the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/ab04f5
Self-luminous and irradiated exoplanetary atmospheres explored with HELIOS
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.06794
On the Use of Planetary Science Data for Studying Extrasolar Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.06816
Reconstructing Extreme Space Weather from Planet Hosting Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.06853
On the Dynamics of Comets in Extrasolar Planetary Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.06910
Characterizing Transiting Exoplanets with JWST Guaranteed Time and ERS Observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.07152
Long-Period Giant Companions to Three Compact, Multiplanet Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.07186
The habitability of stagnant-lid Earths around dwarf stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.07298
Consequences of Tidal Dissipation in a Putative Venusian Ocean
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.07517
New Frontiers for Terrestrial-sized to Neptune-sized Exoplanets In the Era of Extremely Large Telescopes
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.07556
Solving Fermi’s Paradox
https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/physics/computational-science-and-modelling/solving-fermis-paradox
Era of Big NASA Space Telescopes May Be Ending
https://www.space.com/era-big-nasa-space-telescopes-ending.html
Exoplanets apsidal precession and analysis on their eccentricities
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10509-019-3516-1
Planet pairs may have tilted poles
https://academic.oup.com/astrogeo/article-abstract/60/2/2.7/5380731
What do astronomers want from the STFC?
https://academic.oup.com/astrogeo/article/60/2/2.13/5380734
Predicting Additional Planets in TRAPPIST-1
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab0e13
Implications of Revised CO2–CH4 and CO2–H2 Absorption for Outer Edge Habitable Zone Planets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab0c0e
Three direct imaging epochs could constrain the orbit of Earth 2.0 inside the habitable zone
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.06184
Aquaplanet Models on Eccentric Orbits: Effects of Rotation Rate on Observables
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.06216
Multiverse Predictions for Habitability: Fraction of Planets that Develop Life
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.06283
The Demographics and Atmospheres of Giant Planets with the ELTs
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.06299
1I/`Oumuamua and the Problem of Survival of Oort Cloud Comets Near the Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.06300
Collisional Elongation: Possible Origin of Extremely Elongated Shape of 1I/`Oumuamua
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.06373
Searching for Technosignatures: Implications of Detection and Non-Detection
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.06550
The trail of water and the delivery of volatiles to habitable planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.06587
Three Hot-Jupiters on the upper edge of the mass-radius distribution: WASP-177, WASP-181 and WASP-183
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.06622
