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Starry eyes
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6420/1230
Hubble PanCET: an extended upper atmosphere of neutral hydrogen around the warm Neptune GJ 3470b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.05119
Shock-Generating Planetesimals Perturbed by a Giant Planet in a Gas Disk
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.05250
Hints for a Turnover at the Snow Line in the Giant Planet Occurrence Rate
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.05569
In Search of Missing Worlds, Hubble Finds a Fast Evaporating Exoplanet
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/in-search-of-missing-worlds-hubble-finds-a-fast-evaporating-exoplanet
Dynamics of multiple protoplanets embedded in gas and pebble discs and its dependence on Σ and ν parameters
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2018/12/aa33855-18/aa33855-18.html
The ARCiS framework for Exoplanet Atmospheres: The Cloud Transport Model
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.05053
Creating retrogradely orbiting planets by prograde stellar fly-bys
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.04104
Status of the MEDUSAE post-processing method to detect circumstellar objects in high-contrast multispectral images
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.04312
Listening to the gravitational wave sound of circumbinary exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.04330
Warm dust surface chemistry in protoplanetary disks. Formation of phyllosilicates
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.04357
Unique Science from a Coordinated LSST-WFIRST Survey of the Galactic Bulge
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.04445
An estimate of the k2 Love number of WASP-18Ab from its radial velocity measurements
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.04463
TESS exoplanet candidates validated with HARPS archival data. A massive Neptune around GJ\,143 and two Neptunes around HD\,23472
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.04501
Detectability of shape deformation in short-period exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.04538
Stellar energetic particles in the magnetically turbulent habitable zones of TRAPPIST-1-like planetary systems
https://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~ffrasche/TRAPPIST.pdf
Helping astronauts breathe in space: with RUAG and micro-algae
http://spacenewsfeed.com/index.php/news/2439-helping-astronauts-breathe-in-space-with-ruag-and-micro-algae
Re-analyzing the Dynamical Stability of the HD 47366 Planetary System
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aaef32
Detecting circumbinary exoplanets and hierarchical stellar triples with the LISA gravitational radiation mission
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.03438
Exoplanet Clouds
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.03793
Cloud Atlas: Hubble Space Telescope Near-Infrared Spectral Library of Brown Dwarfs, Planetary-mass companions, and hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.03963
A Rapid, Low-Cost Approach to Permanently Extend Life Beyond Earth
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20180007936.pdf
Laboratory for Agnostic Biosignatures
https://www.agnosticbiosignatures.org/
Pulsed Magnetic Nozzle for Fusion Propulsion
http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2018.71.119
Fission Fragment Rocket: Fuel Production and Structural Considerations
http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2018.71.126
Flying on a Rainbow: A Solar-Driven Diffractive Sailcraft
http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2018.71.130
Evaluation of the Hazard of Dust Impacts on Interstellar Spacecraft
http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2018.71.133
A Science-Driven Mission to an Exoplanet
http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2018.71.140
Contact with Alien Biomes: Possible Biochemical Incompatibilities
http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2018.71.151
Incidence of planet candidates in open clusters and a planet confirmation
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2018/12/aa33123-18/aa33123-18.html
Measuring precise radial velocities and cross-correlation function line-profile variations using a Skew Normal density
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.12718
A Transmission Spectrum Of HD 189733b From Multiple Broadband Filter Observations
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/sty3368/5237730
Detecting Ocean Glint on Exoplanets Using Multiphase Mapping
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aaed3a
Angular Momentum of Stars and their Planets
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/aae6b1
High-Resolution Transit Spectroscopy of Warm Saturns
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.02748
Investigating the presence of two belts in the HD15115 system
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.02750
Dynamical origin of S-type planets in close binary stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.02754
A ground-based NUV secondary eclipse observation of KELT-9b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.02773
Ground-based detection of an extended helium atmosphere in the Saturn-mass exoplanet WASP-69b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.03119
