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A super-Earth and sub-Neptune transiting the late-type M dwarf LP 791-18
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.09267
TOI-150b and TOI-163b: two transiting hot Jupiters, one eccentric and one inflated, revealed by TESS near and at the edge of the JWST CVZ
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.09866
Do Active Galactic Nuclei Help or Hurt Life?
https://aasnova.org/2019/05/29/do-active-galactic-nuclei-help-or-hurt-life/
Self-excited oscillation of spinning solar sails utilizing solar radiation pressure
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42064-018-0047-4
CO Detected in Ci Tau b: Hot Start Implied by Planet Mass and M K
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab276d
The high-energy radiation environment of the habitable-zone super-Earth LHS 1140b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.08783
Orphaned Exomoons: Tidal Detachment and Evaporation Following an Exoplanet-Star Collision
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.08788
Exoplanets and University-Industry Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.08777
Directly testing gravity with Proxima Centauri
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.08264
Survivability of radio-loud planetary cores orbiting white dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.08273
Fast Computational Convolution Methods For Extended Source Effects In Microlensing Lightcurves
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.08378
Transit modelling of selected Kepler systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.08610
The SPECULOOS telescopes and searching for red worlds in the northern skies
https://phys.org/news/2019-06-speculoos-telescopes-red-worlds-northern.html
Search for Nearby Earth Analogs. I. 15 Planet Candidates Found in PFS Data
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/ab1b16
Observing Isotopologue Bands in Terrestrial Exoplanet Atmospheres with the James Webb Space Telescope: Implications for Identifying Past Atmospheric and Ocean Loss
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab2385
Spitzer Parallax of OGLE-2018-BLG-0596: A Low-mass-ratio Planet around an M Dwarf
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab237f
Toward Autonomous Navigation of Spacecraft on the Observed Periodic Radiation of Pulsars
http://matisaac.org/images/PaperPDF/AdAp_100126_2019052717111204142.pdf
Towards a General Definition of Life
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11084-019-09578-5
Formation Design of Distributed Telescopes in Earth Orbit for Astrophysics Applications
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.A34420
Retrieval of the Fluid Love Number k 2 in Exoplanetary Transit Curves
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab2048
The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: Observations of 1327 Nearby Stars over 1.10-3.45 GHz
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.07750
Understanding the atmospheric properties and chemical composition of the ultra-hot Jupiter HAT-P-7b: I. Cloud and chemistry mapping
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.08127
A Recommendation Algorithm to Predict Giant Exoplanet Host Stars Using Stellar Elemental Abundances
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.12144
Breakthrough Listen Publishes Most Comprehensive and Sensitive Search for Radio Technosignatures Ever Performed
https://breakthroughinitiatives.org/news/25
Breakthrough Listen Open Data Archive
http://seti.berkeley.edu/opendata
The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: Public Data, Formats, Reduction and Archiving
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.07391
Orbital Stability and Precession Effects in the Kepler-89 System
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.07193
Comparative terrestrial atmospheric circulation regimes in simplified global circulation models: I. from cyclostrophic super-rotation to geostrophic turbulence
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.07561
Comparative terrestrial atmospheric circulation regimes in simplified global circulation models: II. energy budgets and spectral transfers
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.07595
Signatures of Obliquity in Thermal Phase Curves of Hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.07615
On the Habitability of Teegarden’s Star planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.07704
