Possible Photometric Signatures of Moderately Advanced Civilizations: The Clarke Exobelt
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.07723
Modal Decomposition of TTV – Inferring Planet Masses and Eccentricities
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.07731
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February 22, 2018 updates
The search for radio emission from exoplanets using LOFAR beam-formed observations: Jupiter as an exoplanet
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.07316
A Catalog of Cool Dwarf Targets for the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite
https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.00193
February 21, 2018 updates
Vive la radiorésistance!: converging research in radiobiology and biogerontology to enhance human radioresistance for deep space exploration and colonization
https://phys.org/news/2018-02-team-publishes-roadmap-radioresistance-space.html
https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.24461
Jupiter Analogues Orbit Stars with an Average Metallicity Close to that of the Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.06794
exocartographer: A Bayesian Framework for Mapping Exoplanets in Reflected Light
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.06805
The Habitable Zone of Kepler-16: Impact of Binarity and Climate Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.06856
The Habitability of our Evolving Galaxy
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.07036
The extremely truncated circumstellar disc of V410 X-ray 1: a precursor to TRAPPIST-1?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.07120
UKIRT-2017-BLG-001Lb: A giant planet detected through the dust
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.06795
February 20, 2018 update
Kernel-nulling for a robust direct interferometric detection of extrasolar planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.06252
Discovery of a bright microlensing event with planetary features towards the Taurus region: a super Earth planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.06659
Thorough experimental testing of Multimode interference couplers and expected nulls thereof; for exoplanet detection
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.06727
Inside-Out Planet Formation. IV. Pebble Evolution and Planet Formation Timescales
https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.10130
Subsurface Exolife
https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.09908
February 19, 2018 update
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite arrives at Kennedy Space Center for launch
http://www.spacenewsfeed.com/index.php/news/796-nasa-s-transiting-exoplanet-survey-satellite-arrives-at-kennedy-space-center-for-launch
Atomic oxygen ions as ionospheric biomarkers on exoplanets
https://phys.org/news/2018-02-oxygen-ionosphere-biomarker-exoplanets.html
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-017-0375-y
Spectra of Earth-like Planets Through Geological Evolution Around FGKM Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.10027v1
Impact of Gas Giant Instabilities on Habitable Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.05736
Single Transits and Eclipses Observed by K2
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.05823
No Giant Planet Pileup Near 1 AU
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.06044
Interstellar Interlopers: Number Density and Origins of ‘Oumuamua-like Objects
https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.02821