Electrical conductivity and magnetic dynamos in magma oceans of Super-Earths
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-06432-6
Modeling microlensing events with MulensModel
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221313371830026X
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November 22, 2018 updates
TESS’s first planet: A super-Earth transiting the naked-eye star π Mensae
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2018/11/aa34289-18/aa34289-18.html
Climate sensitivity to ozone and its relevance on the habitability of Earth-like planets
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103517307820
A Maximum Subsurface Biomass on Mars from Untapped Free Energy: CO and H2 as Potential Antibiosignatures
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.08501
Survival Rates of Planets in Open Clusters: the Pleiades, Hyades, and Praesepe clusters
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.08598
DE CVn: an eclipsing post-common envelope binary with a circumbinary disk and a giant planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.08625
November 21, 2018 updates
Senator seeks assurances on JWST and WFIRST funding
https://spacenews.com/senator-seeks-assurances-on-jwst-and-wfirst-funding/
Two Terrestrial Planet Families With Different Origins
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.07919
Revised estimates of the frequency of Earth-like planets in the Kepler field
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.08249
Exoplanet Spectroscopy and Photometry with the Twinkle Space Telescope
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.08348
November 20, 2018 updates
Handbook of Exoplanets
https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-3-319-55333-7
AAVSO to archive amateur astronomer exoplanet data
https://www.aavso.org/exoplanet-data
Welcome to the AAVSO Exoplanet Section
https://www.aavso.org/exoplanet-section
Data calibration for the MASCARA and bRing instruments
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2018/11/aa34070-18/aa34070-18.html
Search for young transiting exoplanets within YETI project
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.06993
Direct imaging of molten protoplanets in nearby young stellar associations
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.07411
Machine-learning Approaches to Exoplanet Transit Detection and Candidate Validation in Wide-field Ground-based Surveys
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.07754
The GAPS Programme with HARPS-N at TNG XVIII. Two new giant planets around the metal-poor stars HD 220197 and HD 233832
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.07776
November 19, 2018 updates
Assembling Life: How Can Life Begin on Earth and Other Habitable Planets?
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/assembling-life-9780190646387?cc=us&lang=en&
Orbital outcomes of STIPs and consequences for hot-Jupiter formation and planet diversity
https://open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0373613
The NEW Arecibo Message
http://www.areciboobservatory.org/challenge/
DE CVn: An Eclipsing Post-common Envelope Binary with a Circumbinary Disk and a Giant Planet
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aae64d
Predicted Yield of Transits of Known Radial Velocity Exoplanets from the TESS Primary and Extended Missions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.06550
Space-based infrared interferometry to study exoplanetary atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.04150
Revised Exoplanet Radii and Habitability Using Gaia Data Release 2
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.04533