Scaling Relations Associated with Millimeter Continuum Sizes in Protoplanetary Disks
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.10510

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September 3, 2018 updates
Metallicity effect and planet mass function in pebble-based planet formation models
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.10707
Molecule mapping of HR8799b using OSIRIS on Keck: Strong detection of water and carbon monoxide, but no methane
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.10790
Constraining Gas-Phase Carbon, Oxygen, and Nitrogen in the IM Lup Protoplanetary Disk
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.10682
August 31, 2018 updates
Habitability of Exoplanet Waterworlds
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aad6e0
Ground- and Space-based Detection of the Thermal Emission Spectrum of the Transiting Hot Jupiter KELT-2Ab
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aad781
MOA-2015-BLG-337: A Planetary System with a Low-mass Brown Dwarf/Planetary Boundary Host, or a Brown Dwarf Binary
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aad5ee
A Search for Refraction in Kepler Photometry of Gas Giants
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/aadcb1
The Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat (SPARCS): A Mission to Understand the Impact of Stars in Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.09954
Dust Production and Depletion in Evolved Planetary Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.09967
Hydrohalite Salt-albedo Feedback Could Cool M-dwarf Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.09977
Retrieval of planetary and stellar properties in transmission spectroscopy with Aura
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.10017
A Quantitative Comparison of Exoplanet Catalogs
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.10236
Selective Aggregation Experiments on Planetesimal Formation and Mercury-Like Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.10246
The Near-Infrared Transmission Spectra of TRAPPIST-1 Planets b, c, d, e, f, and g and Stellar Contamination in Multi-Epoch Transit Spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.02086
August 30, 2018 updates
Influence of Stellar Metallicity on Occurrence Rates of Planets and Planetary Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.09451
Constraining the Time Interval for the Origin of Life on Earth
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.09460
Diverse protoplanetary disk morphology produced by a Jupiter-mass planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.09472
Investigating the possibility of reversing giant planet migration via gap edge illumination
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.09554
The effects of stellar activity on optical high-resolution exoplanet transmission spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.09558
Spitzer Phase Curves of KELT-1b and the Signatures of Nightside Clouds in Thermal Phase Observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.09575
Direct Imaging in Reflected Light: Characterization of Older, Temperate Exoplanets With 30-m Telescopes
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.09632
Threshold radii of volatile-rich planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.09872
Simulation and Validation of a SpaceWire On-Board Data-Handling Network for the PLATO Mission
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.09874
The PLATO Payload Data Processing System SpaceWire network
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.09878
Community targets for JWST’s early release science program: evaluation of WASP-63b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.07421
August 29, 2018 updates
Big Data on Exoplanet Composition
https://www.americanscientist.org/article/big-data-on-exoplanet-composition
Precision Light Curves from TESS Full-frame Images: A Different Imaging Approach
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aad68e
Mass-dependent Dynamics of Terrestrial Exoplanets Using ab initio Mineral Properties
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103517306516
Radio SETI Observations of the Interstellar Object ‘Oumuamua
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.09355
Infrared Variability of Two Dusty White Dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.09426