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A Compact Multi-Planet System With A Significantly Misaligned Ultra Short Period Planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.08368
Polar alignment of a protoplanetary disc around an eccentric binary II: Effect of binary and disc parameters
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.08388
The longest period transiting planet candidate from K2
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.08757
Dissolving the Fermi Paradox
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02404
Anti-correlation between multiplicity and orbital properties in exoplanetary systems as a possible record of their dynamical histories
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2018/06/aa31595e-17/aa31595e-17.html
Teetering Stars: Resonant Excitation of Stellar Obliquities by Hot and Warm Jupiters with External Companions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.07892
Improving dynamical mass constraints for intermediate-period substellar companions using Gaia DR2
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.07899
On the Rate of Abiogenesis from a Bayesian Informatics Perspective
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.08033
Portable Adaptive Optics for exoplanet imaging
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.08050
kima: Exoplanet detection in radial velocities
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.08305
Why an intrinsic magnetic field does not protect a planet against atmospheric escape
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2018/06/aa32934-18/aa32934-18.html
Gravitational fragmentation and formation of giant protoplanets on tens-of-au orbits
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.07675
The Peculiar Atmospheric Chemistry of KELT-9b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07137
Experimental Simulation of Dust Impacts at Starflight Velocities
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.07501
Binary Companions of Evolved Stars in APOGEE DR14: Search Method and Catalog of ~5000 Companions
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aac387
The Upper Atmospheres of Terrestrial Planets: Carbon Dioxide Cooling and the Earth’s Thermospheric Evolution
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.06897
Low mass planet migration in Hall-affected disks
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.06960
From Planetesimal to Planet in Turbulent Disks. II. Formation of Gas Giant Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.07354
Securing Fuel for Our Frigid Cosmic Future
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.07170
Medium-resolution integral-field spectroscopy for high-contrast exoplanet imaging: Molecule maps of the beta Pictoris system with SINFONI
https://www.aanda.org/component/article?access=doi&doi=10.1051/0004-6361/201832902
The effects of Poynting–Robertson drag on solar sails
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221137971732586X
A Game of Stars: Active SETI, Radical Translation and the Hobbesian Trap
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016328718300405
Dwarf carbon stars are likely metal-poor binaries and unlikely hosts to carbon planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.06074
Stability of exomoons around the Kepler transiting circumbinary planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.06075
EPIC 246911830 b: a hot Jupiter transiting an F star, and EPIC 201498078 b: a warm Saturn around a bright G star
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.06099
A Planetary Microlensing Event with an Unusually Red Source Star: MOA-2011-BLG-291
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.06106
Chemical abundances of neutron capture elements in exoplanet-hosting stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.06483
Formation of hot Jupiters through disk migration and evolving stellar tides
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.06601
The astrometric signal of microlensing events caused by free floating planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.06636
Exploring exomoon atmospheres with an idealized general circulation model
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.06822
The clock of chemical evolution
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.06716
