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A Multilayer Perceptron for Obtaining Quick Parameter Estimations of Cool Exoplanets from Geometric Albedo Spectra
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ab740d
Sub-Neptune Formation: The View from Resonant Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.03388
The Atmospheres of Rocky Exoplanets I. Outgassing of Common Rock and the Stability of Liquid Water
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.03628
Solar One – A Proposal for The First Manned Interstellar Spaceship
https://engrxiv.org/qcrxa/
Prospectives in Deep Space Infrastructures, Development, and Colonization
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20200001142.pdf
TOI-677b: A Warm Jupiter (P = 11.2 days) on an Eccentric Orbit Transiting a Late F-type Star
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab6f67
Ogle-2018-blg-0677lb: A super earth near the galactic bulge
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.02983
Atmospheric Escape Processes and Planetary Atmospheric Evolution
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.03231
A statistical search for Star-Planet Interaction in the UltraViolet using GALEX
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.03349
PANOSETI: A Panoramic All-sky All-time Near InfraRed and Optical Technosignature Finder
https://oirlab.ucsd.edu/PANOSETI.html
Can planetary rings explain the extremely low density of HIP 41378 𝑓?
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/03/aa37618-20/aa37618-20.html
Peas in a Pod? Radius correlations in Kepler multi-planet systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.02290
KMT-2019-BLG-1339L: an M Dwarf with a Giant Planet or a Companion Near the Planet/Brown Dwarf Boundary
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.02375
Orbital Refinement and Stellar Properties for the HD 9446, HD 43691, and HD 179079 Planetary Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.02385
Accurate Machine Learning Atmospheric Retrieval via a Neural Network Surrogate Model for Radiative Transfer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.02430
Doppler Tomographic Measurement of the Nodal Precession of WASP-33b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.02724
Capability considerations for enhancing safety on long duration crewed missions: Insights from a technical interchange meeting on autonomous crew operations
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468896720300082
Pattern recognition in time series for space missions: A rosetta magnetic field case study
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576519314328
Joint Radial Velocity and Direct Imaging Planet Yield Calculations: I. Self-consistent Planet Populations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.01739
Assessment of astronomical images using combined machine learning models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.01785
ExoReLR: A Bayesian Inverse Retrieval Framework For Exoplanetary Reflected Light Spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.01814
Breaking Resonant Chains: Destabilization of Resonant Planets due to Long-term Mass Evolution
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.01965
Proxima Centauri b: A Strong Case for including Cosmic-Ray-induced Chemistry in Atmospheric Biosignature Studies
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.02036
The effect of high nitrogen pressures on the habitable zone and an appraisal of greenhouse states
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa603/5780240
Cloud Atlas: High-precision HST/WFC3/IR Time-resolved Observations of Directly Imaged Exoplanet HD 106906b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab6f65
A free-floating or wide-orbit planet in the microlensing event OGLE-2019-BLG-0551
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.01126
A pair of TESS planets spanning the radius valley around the nearby mid-M dwarf LTT 3780
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.01136
The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Two planets on the opposite sides of the radius gap transiting the nearby M dwarf LP 729-54
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.01140
Follow-up imaging observations of comet 2I/Borisov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.01457
Disentangling Atmospheric Compositions of K2-18 b with Next Generation Facilities
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.01486
