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Forming Massive Terrestrial Satellites through Binary-Exchange Capture
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.17093
A General-Purpose Transit Simulator for Arbitrary Shaped Objects Orbiting Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.17259
Revising Properties of Planet-Host Binary Systems. IV. The Radius Distribution of Small Planets in Binary Star Systems is Dependent on Stellar Separation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.17648
Exploring wormhole solutions with global monopole charge in the context of f(Q) gravity
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-13002-2
The pitfalls of probes: are our earthly ethical principles lost in space?
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-024-01984-2
The promising Gliese 12 b
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-024-02313-9
PLATO’s signal and noise budget
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10686-024-09948-6
Minimum Condition Requirements in Laser Driven ICF for Advanced Space Propulsion Applications
https://bis-space.com/shop/product/jbis-077-01-029/
Modifications to The Alcubierre Warp Field Metric in Anisotropic Matter and Implications to Detection of Warp Fields
https://bis-space.com/shop/product/jbis-077-01-002/
Space Butterfly: Combining Artificial Intelligence and Genetic Engineering to Explore Multiple Stellar Systems
https://bis-space.com/shop/product/jbis-077-01-016/
The Destination Energy Debt of Interstellar Voyages
https://bis-space.com/shop/product/jbis-077-01-020/
Sustaining Hydrothermal Circulation With Gravity Relevant to Ocean Worlds
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023JE008202
Migration and Evolution of giant ExoPlanets (MEEP). I. Nine Newly Confirmed Hot Jupiters from the TESS Mission
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad4a57
The Dysgenics Objection to Longtermism
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016328724001009
Multiple Clues for Dayside Aerosols and Temperature Gradients in WASP-69 b from a Panchromatic JWST Emission Spectrum
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.15543
Refining the WASP-132 multi-planetary system: discovery of a cold giant planet and mass measurement of a hot super-Earth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.15986
Atmospheric Helium Abundances in the Giant Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.16024
Mind the Trap: Non-negligible effect of volatile trapping in ice on C/O ratios in protoplanetary disks and exoplanetary atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.16029
Interior convection regime, host star luminosity, and predicted atmospheric CO2 abundance in terrestrial exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.16104
On the origin of polar planets around single stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.16169
Dynamical structures of misaligned circumbinary planets under hierarchical three-body systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.16274
[catalog updates]
A Particle System Approach To Designing A Stable Lab-Scale Lightsail
https://repository.tudelft.nl/islandora/object/uuid:d346e3a9-e5a7-4511-9574-e6a8eb962f1a
A computational model for irradiance on close-in planetary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.15021
Transmission Spectroscopy of the Habitable Zone Exoplanet LHS 1140 b with JWST/NIRISS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.15136
Two-dimensional Models of Microphysical Clouds on Hot Jupiters. I. Cloud Properties
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad3de4
Trio of super-Earth candidates orbiting K-dwarf HD 48948: a new habitable zone candidate
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/531/4/4464/7696217?searchresult=1#467864007
HD 110067 c has an aligned orbit — Measuring the Rossiter–McLaughlin effect inside a resonant multi-planet system with ESPRESSO
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/07/aa50570-24/aa50570-24.html
Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE): XIII. The Value of Combining Thermal Emission and Reflected Light for the Characterization of Earth Twins
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.13037
Overstability of the 2:1 mean motion resonance: Exploring disc parameters with hydrodynamic simulations
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/06/aa48826-23/aa48826-23.html
The mass-radius relation of exoplanets revisited
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/06/aa48690-23/aa48690-23.html
Wormholes in the f(R,L,T) theory of gravity
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269324003769
Do We Finally Know all Stellar and Substellar Neighbors within 10 pc of the Sun?
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ad5844
NO PLACE LIKE HOME — The hunt for Earth-like planets has run into headwinds. Some astronomers are looking for signs of habitability on bigger worlds
https://www.science.org/content/article/could-super-earths-mini-neptunes-host-life-among-stars
Thermodynamic Predictions of Hydrogen Generation during the Serpentinization of Harzburgite with Seawater-derived Brines
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ad42a1
Exploring wormhole solutions with global monopole charge in the context of f(Q) gravity
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.11719
