The Lucky Earth Hypothesis
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December 25, 2018 updates
Astrobiology and Astrotheology in Creative Mutual Interaction
https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/9789813235045_0002
December 24, 2018 updates
Extraterrestrial Preservation of Terrestrial Heritage
http://geopolicraticus.tumblr.com/post/181304807197/extraterrestrial-preservation-of-terrestrial
A transiting super-Earth close to the inner edge of the habitable zone of an M0 dwarf star
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/sty3467/5259110
Orbital Motion of the Wide Planetary-Mass Companion GSC 6214-210 b: No Evidence for Dynamical Scattering
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.08860
Detection and characterization of an ultra-dense sub-Neptune planet orbiting the Sun-like star HD 119130
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.09242
The discovery of WASP-134b, WASP-134c, WASP-137b, WASP-143b and WASP-146b: three hot Jupiters and a pair of warm Jupiters orbiting Solar-type stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.09264
Experimental test of a 40 cm-long R=100 000 spectrometer for exoplanet characterisation
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.09272
December 21, 2018 updates
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
Bright Opportunities for Atmospheric Characterization of Small Planets: Masses and Radii of K2-3 b, c, d and GJ3470 b from Radial Velocity Measurements and Spitzer Transits
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.08241
Kepler-730: A hot Jupiter system with a close-in, transiting, Earth-sized planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.08358
Juliet: a versatile modelling tool for transiting and non-transiting exoplanetary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.08549
NASA and the Search for Technosignatures: A Report from the NASA Technosignatures Workshop
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.08681
December 20, 2018 updates
K2-264: A transiting multi-planet system in the Praesepe open cluster
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/sty3464/5255202
The Atmospheric Radiation Interaction Simulator (AtRIS) – Description and Validation
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2018JA026042
The early instability scenario: terrestrial planet formation during the giant planet instability, and the effect of collisional fragmentation
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.07590
HATS-54b-HATS-58Ab: five new transiting hot Jupiters including one with a possible temperate companion
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.07668
Circumstellar dust distribution in systems with two planets in resonance
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.07698
Modeling star-planet interactions in far-out planetary and exoplanetary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.07767
SPHERE dynamical and spectroscopic characterization of HD142527B
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.07814
Detection of Periodicity Based on Independence Tests – IV. Phase Distance Correlation Periodogram for Two-Dimensional Astrometry
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.07928
The independent discovery of planet candidates around low mass stars and astrophysical false positives from the first two TESS sectors
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.08145