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Robo-AO Kepler Survey V: The effect of physically associated stellar companions on planetary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.10208
Limb and gravity-darkening coefficients for the TESS satellite at several metallicities, surface gravities, and microturbulent velocities
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.10295
Planetary Migration in Protoplanetary Disks
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.10578
SPECULOOS – (Search for Planets EClipsing ULtra-cOOl Stars)
http://www.speculoos.uliege.be/cms/c_3272698/en/speculoos-portail
Planet seeding and lithopanspermia through gas-assisted capture of interstellar objects
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.09716
Microlensing planets in the light of the second data release of Gaia
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.10136
The Effects of Stellar Companions on Exoplanet Radius Distributions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.10170
Planet Formation in Disks with Inclined Binary Companions: Can Primordial Spin-Orbit Misalignment be Produced?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.03138
Crystal structure and equation of state of Fe-Si alloys at super-Earth core conditions
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/4/eaao5864
Water Partitioning in Planetary Embryos and Protoplanets with Magma Oceans
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.09294
Measuring Planetary Atmospheric Dynamics with Doppler Spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.09445
Influence of periodic orbits on the formation of giant planetary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.09591
Searching for Exoplanets Around X-Ray Binaries with Accreting White Dwarfs, Neutron Stars, and Black Holes
https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.05762
Increased Tidal Dissipation Using Advanced Rheological Models: Implications for Io and Tidally Active Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.06701
Astrometric detectability of systems with unseen companions: effects of the Earth orbital motion
https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.00290
Kepler Data Validation I — Architecture, Diagnostic Tests, and Data Products for Vetting Transiting Planet Candidates
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.04526
The potential habitability of TRAPPIST-1—no aliens yet, but a lot of data
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-potential-habitability-trappist-1no-aliens-lot.html
Debris Disks: Probing Planet Formation
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.08636
Exoplanets: past, present, and future
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.08907
Retired A Stars Revisited: An Updated Giant Planet Occurrence Rate as a Function of Stellar Metallicity and Mass
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.09082
Photometric Follow-up Transit (Primary Eclipse) Observations of WASP-43 b and TrES-3b and A Study on Their Transit Timing Variations
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.09159
Radio Emission from the Exoplanetary System epsilon Eridani
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aab3cb
Biases in Planet Occurrence Caused by Unresolved Binaries in Transit Surveys
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07764
GPI spectra of HR 8799 c, d, and e from 1.5 to 2.4μm with KLIP Forward Modeling
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07774
Comparison of the power-2 limb-darkening law from the Stagger-grid to Kepler light curves of transiting exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07943
Modeling Exoplanetary Atmospheres: An Overview
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.08149
Exploring the realm of scaled Solar System analogs with HARPS
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.08329
SETI with Gaia: The observational signatures of nearly complete Dyson spheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.08351
PyMieDAP: a Python–Fortran tool to compute fluxes and polarization signals of (exo)planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.08357
