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Using Ground-Based Telescopes to Mature Key Technologies and Advance Science for Future NASA Exoplanet Direct Imaging Missions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.05453
Detection of Exoplanets Using the Transit Method
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.05565
The GAPS Programme with HARPS-N at TNG XVI: Measurement of the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect of the transiting planetary systems HAT-P-3, HAT-P-12, HAT-P-22, WASP-39 and WASP-60
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.03859
The Transiting Exoplanet Community Early Release Science Program for JWST
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.04985
Stellar obliquities and magnetic activities of Planet-Hosting Stars and Eclipsing Binaries based on Transit Chord Correlation
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.05000
Three small planets transiting the bright young field star EPIC 249622103
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.05056
Surface and Temporal Biosignatures
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.05065
Energy Dissipation in the Upper Atmospheres of Trappist-1 Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.05089
A Likely Detection of a Two-Planet System in a Low Magnification Microlensing Event
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.05238
Resonance Capture and Dynamics of 3-Planet Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.05305
The ngVLA’s Role in Exoplanet Science: Constraining Exo-Space Weather
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.05345
Model-independent exoplanet transit spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.05327
Superflare UV flashes impact on Kepler-96 system: a glimpse of habitability when the ozone layer first formed on Earth
https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.05400
Possible Photometric Signatures of Moderately Advanced Civilizations: The Clarke Exobelt
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aaae66
Spitzer Opens New Path to Break Classic Degeneracy for Jupiter-Mass Microlensing Planet OGLE-2017-BLG-1140Lb
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.04437
Key Technology Challenges for the Study of Exoplanets and the Search for Habitable Worlds
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.04457
Kepler Data Validation I — Architecture, Diagnostic Tests, and Data Products for Vetting Transiting Planet Candidates
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.04526
Possible Bright Starspots on TRAPPIST-1
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.04543
The value of astrometry for exoplanet science
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.04642
Project Blue: Visible Light Imaging Search for Terrestrial-class Exoplanets in the Habitable Zones of Alpha Centauri A and B
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.04872
Implications of Neutron Star Mergers for Extraterrestrial Civilizations
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.04919
A system of three transiting super-Earths in a cool dwarf star
https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.06249
Interstellar communication. II. Application to the solar gravitational lens
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576517311712
The optimisation of low-acceleration interstellar relativistic rocket trajectories using genetic algorithms (not new, but interesting)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576516308827
Limits and signatures of relativistic spaceflight
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576517305143
Are We the First: Was There Life Before Our Solar System?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128119402000149
Placing Outer Space: An Earthly Ethnography of Other Worlds
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aman.12984/full
It’s a great big universe: Astrobiology and future trends for an astrotheology
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/dial.12370/full
Statistical Challenges in Exoplanet Detection
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781118445112.stat07939/abstract
A White Paper Submitted to The National Academy of Science’s Committee on Exoplanet Science Strategy: Observing Exoplanets with the James Webb Space Telescope
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03730
Inner Super-Earths, Outer Gas Giants: How Pebble Isolation and Migration Feedback Keep Jupiters Cold
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03648
Precision Space Astrometry as a Tool to Find Earth-like Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03732
Exploring Extreme Space Weather Factors of Exoplanetary Habitability
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03751
Exoplanet Diversity in the Era of Space-based Direct Imaging Missions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03812
Vortex coronagraphs for the Habitable Exoplanet Imaging Mission (HabEx) concept: theoretical performance and telescope requirements
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03909
EarthFinder: A Precise Radial Velocity Probe Mission Concept For the Detection of Earth-Mass Planets Orbiting Sun-like Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03960
Planetary Candidates from K2 Campaign 16
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.04091
Towards completing Planetary Systems: The role of minor bodies on life growth and survival
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.04010
Survival of a planet in short-period Neptunian desert under effect of photo-evaporation
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.04278
Recognizing the Value of the Solar Gravitational Lens for Direct Multipixel Imaging and Spectroscopy of an Exoplanet
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.04319
How to Build a Starship
https://medium.com/@jnnielsen/how-to-build-a-starship-87aecfa22828
Exoplanets around Low-mass Stars Unveiled by K2
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aaa9c1/meta
Shallow Transits—Deep Learning. I. Feasibility Study of Deep Learning to Detect Periodic Transits of Exoplanets
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aaae05
Kepler-78 and the Ultra-Short-Period Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03303
Merging the Astrophysics and Planetary Science Information Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03598
