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Exploring the realm of scaled solar system analogues with HARPS
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2018/07/aa32791-18/aa32791-18.html
Interior characterization in multiplanetary systems: TRAPPIST-1
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.01803
The Effect of Disequilibrium Carbon Chemistry on the Atmospheric Circulation and Phase Curves of Hot Jupiter HD 189733b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.02011
NASA Develops Technology Today to Enable Breakthrough Observations Tomorrow
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20180003964.pdf
Equation of state of SiC at extreme conditions: new insight into the interior of carbon rich exoplanets
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2018JE005582
A Search for Exoplanets around Northern Circumpolar Stars. IV. Six Planet Candidates to the K Giants, HD 44385, HD 97619, HD 106574, HD 118904, HD 164428, and HD 202432
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.01109
The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. A Neptune-mass planet traversing the habitable zone around HD 180617
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.01183
A 1574-day periodicity of transits orbiting KIC 8462852
https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.01081
The hidden depths of planetary atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.00738
VLA Detects Possible Extrasolar Planetary-Mass Magnetic Powerhouse
https://public.nrao.edu/news/planetary-mass-powerhouse/
Modeling Repeated M Dwarf Flaring at an Earth-like Planet in the Habitable Zone: Atmospheric Effects for an Unmagnetized Planet
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2017.1794
Disruption of a planet spiralling into its host star
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.00467
A second planet with an Earth-like composition orbiting the nearby M dwarf LHS 1140
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.00485
Three-Dimensional Circulation Driving Chemical Disequilibrium in WASP-43b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.00501
Overview of the spectrometer optical fiber feed for the Habitable-zone Planet Finder
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.00557
Detection and Doppler monitoring of EPIC 246471491, a system of four transiting planets smaller than Neptune
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.00575
A Simple Model for Radiative and Convective Fluxes in Planetary Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.00579
Penetrative Convection in Super‐Earth planets: Consequences of MgSiO3 post‐Perovskite Dissociation Transition and Implications for super‐Earth GJ 876 d
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2018JE005633
Understanding WASP-12b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.00052
Habitability in the Omega Centauri Cluster
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.00053
Radioactive nuclei from cosmochronology to habitability
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.00233
Characterisation of the HD 219134 multi-planet system I. Observations of stellar magnetism, wind, and high-energy flux
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.00406
Characterisation of the HD219134 multi-planet system II. Stellar-wind sputtered exospheres in rocky planets b & c
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.00404
The origin of RNA precursors on exoplanets
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/8/eaar3302
The Search for Extra-Galactic Intelligence Signals Synchronized with Binary Neutron Star Mergers
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aad33d
Using warm dust to constrain unseen planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.11536
The Planet Formation Imager
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.11559
Planet Formation Imager: Project Update
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.11555
The Efficiency of Geometric Samplers for Exoplanet Transit Timing Variation Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.11591
Precovery of TESS Single Transits with KELT
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.11922
55 Cancri (Copernicus): A Multi-Planet System with a Hot Super-Earth and a Jupiter Analogue
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.11925
