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WEIRD: Wide-orbit Exoplanet search with InfraRed Direct imaging
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.08799
Modeled Temperature-Dependent Clouds with Radiative Feedback in Hot Jupiter Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.08890
Relative Likelihood of Success in the Searches for Primitive versus Intelligent Extraterrestrial Life
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.08879
Space, Architecture, and Science Fiction: An Architectural Interpretation of Space Colonization
https://cgscholar.com/bookstore/works/space-architecture-and-science-fiction
NASA faces funding challenge for JWST in future years
https://spacenews.com/nasa-faces-funding-challenge-for-jwst-in-future-years/
Rio 2.0: revising the Rio scale for SETI detections
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/rio-20-revising-the-rio-scale-for-seti-detections/DF9D6EABEA7D8D84999234BCFB3FADB4
High-energy environment of super-Earth 55 Cancri e – I. Far-UV chromospheric variability as a possible tracer of planet-induced coronal rain
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2018/07/aa32700-18/aa32700-18.html
A Search for Exoplanets around Northern Circumpolar Stars. IV. Six Planet Candidates to the K Giants, HD 44385, HD 97619, HD 106574, HD 118904, HD 164428, and HD 202432
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aacbc1
Chromatic transit light curves of disintegrating rocky planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.07973
The HOSTS Survey for Exozodiacal Dust: Preliminary results and future prospects
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.08209
Prospects for the characterisation of exo-zodiacal dust with the VLTI
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.08210
Atmospheric Circulation of Brown Dwarfs and Jupiter and Saturn-like Planets: Zonal Jets, Long-term Variability, and QBO-type Oscillations
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.08433
Color Classification of Extrasolar Giant Planets: Prospects and Cautions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.08453
SPOTS: The Search for Planets Orbiting Two Stars. III. Complete Sample and Statistical Analysis
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.08687
Astrotheology: Science and Theology Meet Extraterrestrial Life
https://www.amazon.com/Astrotheology-Science-Theology-Meet-Extraterrestrial/dp/1532606397/
Handbook of Exoplanets
https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-3-319-30648-3
Valuing Life-Detection Missions
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2017.1813
Earth Without Life: A Systems Model of a Global Abiotic Nitrogen Cycle
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2017.1700
Carbon Cycling and Habitability of Earth-Sized Stagnant Lid Planets
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2017.1695
Atmospheric escape from the TRAPPIST-1 planets and implications for habitability
http://www.pnas.org/content/115/2/260
Hydrogen and helium ingassing during terrestrial planet accretion
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X18304035
Atmospheric Escape and the Evolution of Close-in Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.07609
Survival of non-coplanar, closely-packed planetary systems after a close encounter
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.07668
The first super-Earth Detection from the High Cadence and High Radial Velocity Precision Dharma Planet Survey
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.07098
Review of high-contrast imaging systems for current and future ground-based and space-based telescopes III. Technology opportunities and pathways
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.07100
Upgrading the Gemini Planet Imager: GPI 2.0
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.07145
The Gemini Planet Imager: Looking back over five years and forward to the future
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.07146
Mining the GPIES database
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.07153
Air, Telescope, and Instrument Temperature Effects on the Gemini Planet Imager’s Image Quality
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.07157
Dynamical Evolution of the Early Solar System
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.06647
Characterization of microdot apodizers for imaging exoplanets with next-generation space telescopes
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.06761
Evolution of Earth-like extrasolar planetary atmospheres: Assessing the atmospheres and biospheres of early Earth analog planets with a coupled atmosphere biogeochemical model
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.06844
WASP-147b, 160Bb, 164b and 165b: two hot Saturns and two Jupiters, including two planets with metal-rich hosts
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.06973
Review of high-contrast imaging systems for current and future ground- and space-based telescopes I. Coronagraph design methods and optical performance metrics
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.07042
Review of high-contrast imaging systems for current and future ground-based and space-based telescopes II. Common path wavefront sensing/control and Coherent Differential Imaging
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.07043
