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Increased Tidal Dissipation Using Advanced Rheological Models: Implications for Io and Tidally Active Exoplanets
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aab784
Stellar Photospheric Abundances as a Probe of Disks and Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.06414
ALMA resolves CI emission from the β Pictoris debris disk
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.06479
Properties of the single Jovian planet population and the pursuit of Solar system analogues
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.06547
The GALAH survey: An abundance, age, and kinematic inventory of the solar neighbourhood made with TGAS
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.05869
Venus as an Analog for Hot Earths
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.05889
Interferometric diameters of five evolved intermediate-mass planet-hosting stars measured with PAVO at the CHARA Array
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.05976
The GALAH Survey: Second Data Release
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.06041
The contribution of the ARIEL space mission to the study of planetary formation
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.06179
A Serendipitous MWA Search for Narrowband Signals from ‘Oumuamua
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aab359/meta
Wavelet based speckle suppression for exoplanet imaging – Application of a de-noising technique in the time domain
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.05063
Ultra-short-period planets from secular chaos
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.05065
Identifying inflated super-Earths and photo-evaporated cores
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.05069
Exoplanet Science Priorities from the Perspective of Internal and Surface Processes for Silicate and Ice Dominated Worlds
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.05094
Highly Volcanic Exoplanets, Lava Worlds, and Magma Ocean Worlds: An Emerging Class of Dynamic Exoplanets of Significant Scientific Priority
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.05110
Characterizing K2 Candidate Planetary Systems Orbiting Low-Mass Stars III: A High Mass & Low Envelope Fraction for the Warm Neptune K2-55b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.05148
WASP-104b is Darker than Charcoal
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.05334
Architectures of planetary systems formed by pebble accretion
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.05510
KPS-1b: the first transiting exoplanet discovered using an amateur astronomer’s wide-field CCD data
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.05551
Microphysical Modeling of Mineral Clouds in GJ1214 b and GJ436 b: Predicting Upper Limits on the Cloud-Top Height
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.05708
What and Whence 1I/`Oumuamua: A Contact Binary from the Debris of a Young Planetary System?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.06721
Particle accretion onto planets in discs with hydrodynamic turbulence
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.08730
New inner boundaries of the habitable zones around M dwarfs
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X18301985
Binary companions of evolved stars in APOGEE DR14: Search method and catalog of ~5,000 companions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.04662
Puzzling out the coexistence of terrestrial planets and giant exoplanets. The 2/1 resonant periodic orbits
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.04936
Analytical Models of Exoplanetary Atmospheres. VI. Full Solutions for Improved Two-stream Radiative Transfer Including Direct Stellar Beam
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.04961
FastChem: A computer program for efficient complex chemical equilibrium calculations in the neutral/ionized gas phase with applications to stellar and planetary atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.05010
A Revised Exoplanet Yield from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.05050
Spaceflight from Super-Earths is difficult [Serious version of the April Fool’s idea previously posted]
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.04727
An Improved Transit Measurement for a 2.4 R_{Earth} Planet Orbiting A Bright Mid-M Dwarf K2−28
https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.10177
TESS readies for takeoff
https://news.mit.edu/2018/tess-readies-takeoff-discover-exoplanets-0412
Earth as an Exoplanet
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.04138
Mars’ Growth Stunted by an Early Giant Planet Instability
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.04233
X-Ray Ionization of Planet-Opened Gaps in Protostellar Disks
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.04265
The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: Wide-bandwidth Digital Instrumentation for the CSIRO Parkes 64-m Telescope
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.04571
A Multi-Year Search For Transits Of Proxima Centauri. I: Light Curves Corresponding To Published Ephemerides
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.04284
