The scatter of the M dwarf mass-radius relationship
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.07780
A review on substellar objects beyond the deuterium burning mass limit: planets, brown dwarfs or what?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.07798
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August 23, 2018 updates
Starspot Occultations in Infrared Transit Spectroscopy: The Case of WASP-52b
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aac6db
Comment on “Gravitational waves from ultra-short period exoplanets”
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.07055
Aliasing in the Radial Velocities of YZ Ceti: An Ultra-Short Period for YZ Ceti c?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.07059
Zodiacal Exoplanets in Time (ZEIT) VIII: A Two Planet System in Praesepe from K2 Campaign 16
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.07068
August 22, 2018 updates
NASA’s Exoplanet Excursions VR Experience
http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/vr
Detectability of Biosignatures in Anoxic Atmospheres with the James Webb Space Telescope: A TRAPPIST-1e Case Study
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aad564
Multiple Disk Gaps and Rings Generated by a Single Super-Earth: II. Spacings, Depths, and Number of Gaps, with Application to Real Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.06613
The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs: Nine new double-line spectroscopic binary stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.06895
Hydrogen and Sodium Absorption in the Optical Transmission Spectrum of WASP-12b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.07010
A framework for planet detection with faint lightcurve echoes
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.07029
Inferring the Composition of Disintegrating Planet Interiors from Dust Tails with Future James Webb Space Telescope Observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.07043
August 21, 2018 updates
No Bootstrap Spaceships
http://www.physics.princeton.edu/~mcdonald/examples/bootstrap.pdf
The mass of the young planet Beta Pictoris b through the astrometric motion of its host star
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.06257
Billion-dollar telescopes could end up beyond the reach of US astronomers
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05985-2
Placing Outer Space: An Earthly Ethnography of Other Worlds.
https://www.dukeupress.edu/placing-outer-space
Climates of Warm Earth-like Planets I: 3-D Model Simulations
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.06480
Detection of Alpha Centauri at radio wavelengths: chromospheric emission and search for star-planet interaction
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.08338
August 20, 2018 updates
Water-worlds are common: Exoplanets may contain vast amounts of water
https://phys.org/news/2018-08-water-worlds-common-exoplanets-vast-amounts.html
Warping a protoplanetary disc with a planet on an inclined orbit
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.05693
Panoramic optical and near-infrared SETI instrument: overall specifications and science program
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.05772
Panoramic optical and near-infrared SETI instrument: optical and structural design concepts
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.05773
Panoramic optical and near-infrared SETI instrument: prototype design and testing
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.05774
Exonephology: Transmission spectra from a 3D simulated cloudy atmosphere of HD209458b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.05887