Size and strength of self-excited dynamos in Jupiter-like extrasolar planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.02508
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March 7, 2018 updates
Atmospheric reconnaissance of the habitable-zone Earth-sized planets orbiting TRAPPIST-1
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-017-0374-z
The First Planetary Microlensing Event with Two Microlensed Source Stars
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aaadfa
Deep and wide gaps by super Earths in low-viscosity discs
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.01868
The KELT Follow-Up Network and Transit False Positive Catalog: Pre-vetted False Positives for TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.01869
Exoplanets Torqued by the Combined Tides of a Moon and Parent Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.01971
Planetary Spectrum Generator: an accurate online radiative transfer suite for atmospheres, comets, small bodies and exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.02008
Precision Light Curves from TESS Full-Frame Images: A Difference Imaging Approach
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.02316
The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs: Radial-velocity variations of active stars in visual-channel spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.02338
The Habitability of Proxima Centauri b I: Evolutionary Scenarios
https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.06919
Core-powered mass loss and the radius distribution of small exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.01621
March 6, 2018 updates
JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE Integration and Test Challenges Have Delayed Launch and Threaten to Push Costs Over Cap
https://www.gao.gov/assets/700/690413.pdf
New Constraints on Gliese 876—Exemplar of Mean-motion Resonance
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aaa894
Habitable Evaporated Cores and the Occurrence of Panspermia Near the Galactic Center
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aaab46
A New Window into Escaping Exoplanet Atmospheres: 10830 Å Line of Helium
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aaada9
Haze production rates in super-Earth and mini-Neptune atmosphere experiments
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-018-0397-0
Laboratory Simulations of Haze Formation in the Atmospheres of super-Earths and mini-Neptunes: Particle Color and Size Distribution
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.01706
The resilience of Kepler systems to stellar obliquity
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.01182
Dynamical analysis of the circumprimary planet in the eccentric binary system HD59686
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.01434
The when and where of water in the history of the universe
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.01452
Planetary Candidates Observed by Kepler. VIII. A Fully Automated Catalog With Measured Completeness and Reliability Based on Data Release 25
https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.06758
March 5, 2018 updates
Three Small Planets Transiting a Hyades Star
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aaa841
HATS-36b and 24 Other Transiting/Eclipsing Systems from the HATSouth-K2 Campaign 7 Program
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aaa8e6
K2-155: A Bright Metal-poor M Dwarf with Three Transiting Super-Earths
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aaaa6e
Exoplanets around Low-mass Stars Unveiled by K2
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aaa9c1
Long-term Stability of Tightly Packed Multi-planet Systems in Prograde, Coplanar, Circumstellar Orbits within the α Centauri AB System
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aaa966
Precision Orbit of δ Delphini and Prospects for Astrometric Detection of Exoplanets
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aaac80
Analytical Models of Exoplanetary Atmospheres. V. Non-gray Thermal Structure with Coherent Scattering
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.00629
A Universal Break in the Planet-to-Star Mass-Ratio Function of Kepler MKG stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.00777
Radio Emission from the Exoplanetary System ε Eridani
https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.07012
Planet Occurrence: Doppler and Transit Surveys
https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.08543
March 2, 2018 updates
The Complete Transmission Spectrum of WASP-39b with a Precise Water Constraint
http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hvi/uploads/science_paper/file_attachment/309/published_AJ_WASP_39b_paper.pdf
Continuous reorientation of synchronous terrestrial planets due to mantle convection
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-018-0071-2
A System of Three Super Earths Transiting the Late K-Dwarf GJ 9827 at 30 pc
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aaa292/meta
Magellan/PFS Radial Velocities of GJ 9827, a late K dwarf at 30 pc with Three Transiting Super-Earths
https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.01359
The continued importance of habitability studies
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.00215
Habitable Snowballs: Generalizing the Habitable Zone
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.00511
Simulating the cloudy atmospheres of HD 209458 b and HD 189733 b with the 3D Met Office Unified Model
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.00226
Inferring Planetary Obliquity Using Rotational & Orbital Photometry
https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.05152
Cool DZ white dwarfs II: Compositions and evolution of old remnant planetary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.07714