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Photonic Wireless Terahertz Wave System for Space Exploration
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8510280
Retrieving Temperatures and Abundances of Exoplanet Atmospheres with High-Resolution Cross-Correlation Spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.01681
A Jovian planet in an eccentric 11.5 day orbit around HD1397 discovered by TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.01882
On the possibility of detecting ultra-short period exoplanets with LISA
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.07055
Solar sail H-reversal trajectory: A review of its advances and applications
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42064-018-0032-y
How life could help atmospheric tides slow a planet’s rotation
https://www.astrobio.net/news-exclusive/how-life-could-help-atmospheric-tides-slow-a-planets-rotation/
Optical Detection of Lasers with Near-term Technology at Interstellar Distances
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aae380
The HST PanCET Program: Hints of Na I & Evidence of a Cloudy Atmosphere for the Inflated Hot Jupiter WASP-52b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.00935
Independent board chair calls JWST a “step too far”
https://spacenews.com/independent-board-chair-calls-jwst-a-step-too-far/
The Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes makes all Kepler data publicly available
https://phys.org/news/2018-11-mikulski-archive-space-telescopes-kepler.html
MAST: Barbara A. Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes
https://mast.stsci.edu/
H2O abundances and cloud properties in ten hot giant exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.00011
Statistical modelling of an astro-comb for high-precision radial velocity observation
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.05529
Origin of 1I/’Oumuamua. II. An ejected exo-Oort cloud object?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.00023
Masses of the Kepler-419 Planets from Transit Timing Variations Analysis
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.00107
Two new free-floating planet candidates from microlensing
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.00441
The Formation of Solar System Analogs in Young Star Clusters
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.12934
Binary planet formation by gas-assisted encounters of planetary embryos
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.12955
Fully scalable forward model grid of exoplanet transmission spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.12971
Scientific Domain Knowledge Improves Exoplanet Transit Classification with Deep Learning
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.13434
Prospects and physical mechanisms for photonic space propulsion
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41566-018-0280-7
Propulsion by Stimulated Electromagnetic Forces
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328487508_PROPULSION_BY_STIMULATED_ELECTROMAGNETIC_FORCES
Hawaii Supreme Court upholds permit for giant telescope
https://phys.org/news/2018-10-hawaii-supreme-court-giant-telescope.html
Kepler’s Discoveries Will Continue: 21 Important Scientific Opportunities with Kepler & K2 Archive Data
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.12554
Climate modelling of hypothetical moon-moons in the Kepler-1625b system
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.12687
Have we missed an interstellar comet four years ago?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.12766
Biosignature Anisotropy Modeled on Temperate Tidally Locked M-dwarf Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.12904
