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PROBABILISTIC MASS-RADIUS RELATIONSHIP FOR SUB-NEPTUNE-SIZED PLANETS by Wolfgang, Angie, Rogers, Leslie A., Ford, Eric B.

“…ABSTRACT The Kepler Mission has discovered thousands of planets with radii <4 , paving the way for the first statistical studies of the dynamics, formation,…”
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SUPER-EARTH ATMOSPHERES: SELF-CONSISTENT GAS ACCRETION AND RETENTION by Ginzburg, Sivan, Schlichting, Hilke E., Sari, Re'em

“…ABSTRACT Some recently discovered short-period Earth- to Neptune-sized exoplanets (super-Earths) have low observed mean densities that can only be explained by…”
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AT2018cow: A Luminous Millimeter Transient by Ho, Anna Y. Q., Phinney, E. Sterl, Ravi, Vikram, Kulkarni, S. R., Petitpas, Glen, Emonts, Bjorn, Bhalerao, V., Blundell, Ray, Cenko, S. Bradley, Dobie, Dougal, Howie, Ryan, Kamraj, Nikita, Kasliwal, Mansi M., Murphy, Tara, Perley, Daniel A., Sridharan, T. K., Yoon, Ilsang

“…We present detailed submillimeter- through centimeter-wave observations of the extraordinary extragalactic transient AT2018cow. The apparent…”
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The X-Ray Halo Scaling Relations of Supermassive Black Holes by Gaspari, M., Eckert, D., Ettori, S., Tozzi, P., Bassini, L., Rasia, E., Brighenti, F., Sun, M., Borgani, S., Johnson, S. D., Tremblay, G. R., Stone, J. M., Temi, P., Yang, H.-Y. K., Tombesi, F., Cappi, M.

“…We carry out a comprehensive Bayesian correlation analysis between hot halos and direct masses of supermassive black holes (SMBHs), by retrieving the X-ray…”
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PROBABILISTIC FORECASTING OF THE MASSES AND RADII OF OTHER WORLDS by Chen, Jingjing, Kipping, David

“…ABSTRACT Mass and radius are two of the most fundamental properties of an astronomical object. Increasingly, new planet discoveries are being announced with a…”
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Seventeen Tidal Disruption Events from the First Half of ZTF Survey Observations: Entering a New Era of Population Studies by van Velzen, Sjoert, Gezari, Suvi, Hammerstein, Erica, Roth, Nathaniel, Frederick, Sara, Ward, Charlotte, Hung, Tiara, Cenko, S. Bradley, Stein, Robert, Perley, Daniel A., Taggart, Kirsty, Foley, Ryan J., Sollerman, Jesper, Blagorodnova, Nadejda, Andreoni, Igor, Bellm, Eric C., Brinnel, Valery, De, Kishalay, Dekany, Richard, Feeney, Michael, Fremling, Christoffer, Giomi, Matteo, Golkhou, V. Zach, Graham, Matthew J., Ho, Anna. Y. Q., Kasliwal, Mansi M., Kilpatrick, Charles D., Kulkarni, Shrinivas R., Kupfer, Thomas, Laher, Russ R., Mahabal, Ashish, Masci, Frank J., Miller, Adam A., Nordin, Jakob, Riddle, Reed, Rusholme, Ben, Santen, Jakob van, Sharma, Yashvi, Shupe, David L., Soumagnac, Maayane T.

“…While tidal disruption events (TDEs) have long been heralded as laboratories for the study of quiescent black holes, the small number of known TDEs and…”
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TO COOL IS TO ACCRETE: ANALYTIC SCALINGS FOR NEBULAR ACCRETION OF PLANETARY ATMOSPHERES by Lee, Eve J., Chiang, Eugene

“…ABSTRACT Planets acquire atmospheres from their parent circumstellar disks. We derive a general analytic expression for how the atmospheric mass grows with…”
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The Zwicky Transient Facility Bright Transient Survey. I. Spectroscopic Classification and the Redshift Completeness of Local Galaxy Catalogs by Fremling, C., Miller, A. A., Sharma, Y., Dugas, A., Perley, D. A., Taggart, K., Sollerman, J., Goobar, A., Graham, M. L., Neill, J. D., Nordin, J., Rigault, M., Walters, R., Andreoni, I., Bagdasaryan, A., Belicki, J., Cannella, C., Bellm, E. C., Cenko, S. B., De, K., Dekany, R., Frederick, S., Golkhou, V. Z., Graham, M. J., Helou, G., Ho, A. Y. Q., Kasliwal, M. M., Kupfer, T., Laher, R. R., Mahabal, A., Masci, F. J., Riddle, R., Rusholme, B., Schulze, S., Shupe, D. L., Smith, R. M., Velzen, S. van, Yan, Lin, Yao, Y., Zhuang, Z., Kulkarni, S. R.

“…The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) is performing a three-day cadence survey of the visible northern sky (∼3π) with newly found transient candidates announced…”
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Compositional Imprints in Density-Distance-Time: A Rocky Composition for Close-in Low-mass Exoplanets from the Location of the Valley of Evaporation by Jin, Sheng, Mordasini, Christoph

“…We use an end-to-end model of planet formation, thermodynamic evolution, and atmospheric escape to investigate how the statistical imprints of evaporation…”
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THE IMPRINT OF EXOPLANET FORMATION HISTORY ON OBSERVABLE PRESENT-DAY SPECTRA OF HOT JUPITERS by Mordasini, C., van Boekel, R., Mollière, P., Henning, Th, Benneke, Björn

“…ABSTRACT The composition of a planet's atmosphere is determined by its formation, evolution, and present-day insolation. A planet's spectrum therefore may hold…”
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THE MASS-METALLICITY RELATION FOR GIANT PLANETS by Thorngren, Daniel P., Fortney, Jonathan J., Murray-Clay, Ruth A., Lopez, Eric D.

“…ABSTRACT Exoplanet discoveries of recent years have provided a great deal of new data for studying the bulk compositions of giant planets. Here we identify 47…”
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A Gravitational-wave Measurement of the Hubble Constant Following the Second Observing Run of Advanced LIGO and Virgo by Abbott, B. P., Abraham, S., Amato, A., Baker, P. T., Ballmer, S. W., Birney, R., Blackburn, J. K., Bloemen, S., Bonnand, R., Brown, D. D., Cannon, K. C., Chakravarti, K., Chiadini, F., Cho, G., Cohadon, P.-F., Cornish, N., Corsi, A., Cowan, E. E., Coyne, R., D’Angelo, B., D’Antonio, S., Danzmann, K., Dasgupta, A., DeBra, D., Degallaix, J., De Rossi, C., Dhurandhar, S., DiFronzo, C., Di Lieto, A., Divakarla, A. K., Dupej, P., Eichholz, J., Eisenmann, M., Farr, B., Fazio, M., Gaonkar, S. G., Giacomazzo, B., Gopakumar, A., Gosselin, M., Gras, S., Gretarsson, E. M., Huerta, E. A., Inta, R., Intini, G., Kanner, J. B., Katsanevas, S., Katzman, W., Keerthana, N. V., Kennedy, R., Khalili, F. Y., Khursheed, M., Koper, N., Kumar, Rakesh, Kuo, L., Leavey, S., Levin, Y., Li, K. J. L., Lin, F., Magee, R. M., Mitselmakher, G., Mo, G., Moore, C. J., Munch, J., Neilson, J., Ogin, G. H., O’Reilly, B., Ortega, L. F., Page, M. A., Pang, P. T. H., Passaquieti, R., Périgois, C., Pierro, V., Pinto, I. M., Porter, E. K., Powell, J., Prasai, K., Quetschke, V., Rana, Javed, Rutins, G., Sakellariadou, M., Santiago, K. A., Sathyaprakash, B. S., Scheel, M., Shen, H., Sunil, S., Swinkels, B. L., Tasson, J. D., Tonelli, M., Tso, R., Tsuna, D., Ueno, K., Unnikrishnan, C. S., Usman, S. A., Vardaro, M., Walker, M., Whiting, B. F., Winkler, W., Wofford, J. K., Zhao, C., Zhao, G.

“…This paper presents the gravitational-wave measurement of the Hubble constant (H(0)) using the detections from the first and second observing runs of the…”
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The First Swift Intensive AGN Accretion Disk Reverberation Mapping Survey by Edelson, R., Gelbord, J., Cackett, E., Peterson, B. M., Horne, K., Barth, A. J., Starkey, D. A., Bentz, M., Brandt, W. N., Goad, M., Joner, M., Korista, K., Netzer, H., Page, K., Uttley, P., Vaughan, S., Breeveld, A., Cenko, S. B., Done, C., Evans, P., Fausnaugh, M., Ferland, G., Gonzalez-Buitrago, D., Gropp, J., Grupe, D., Kaastra, J., Kennea, J., Kriss, G., Mathur, S., Mehdipour, M., Mudd, D., Nousek, J., Schmidt, T., Vestergaard, M., Villforth, C.

“…Swift intensive accretion disk reverberation mapping of four AGN yielded light curves sampled ∼200-350 times in 0.3-10 keV X-ray and six UV/optical bands…”
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The Fourth Catalog of Active Galactic Nuclei Detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope by Angioni, R., Axelsson, M., Ballet, J., Barbiellini, G., Bastieri, D., Becerra Gonzalez, J., Bellazzini, R., Bissaldi, E., Bloom, E. D., Bonino, R., Bottacini, E., Bruel, P., Buson, S., Cafardo, F., Cameron, R. A., Cavazzuti, E., Chen, S., Cheung, C. C., Ciprini, S., Cutini, S., D'Ammando, F., de la Torre Luque, P., de Menezes, R., de Palma, F., Desai, A., Di Venere, L., Dirirsa, F. Fana, Ferrara, E. C., Fukazawa, Y., Funk, S., Gargano, F., Garrappa, S., Gasparrini, D., Giglietto, N., Giroletti, M., Green, D., Grenier, I. A., Guiriec, S., Hays, E., Horan, D., Itoh, R., Jóhannesson, G., Kovac'evic', M., Krauss, F., Kuss, M., Larsson, S., Leto, C., Li, J., Liodakis, I., Longo, F., Lovellette, M. N., Madejski, G. M., Manfreda, A., Martí-Devesa, G., Massaro, F., Mereu, I., Migliori, G., Mirabal, N., Mizuno, T., Monzani, M. E., Morselli, A., Moskalenko, I. V., Negro, M., Nemmen, R., Nuss, E., Ojha, L. S., Ojha, R., Omodei, N., Orienti, M., Orlando, E., Ormes, J. F., Paliya, V. S., Pei, Z., Peña-Herazo, H., Persic, M., Pesce-Rollins, M., Petrov, L., Piron, F., Poon, H., Principe, G., Rainò, S., Rando, R., Rani, B., Razzano, M., Razzaque, S., Reimer, A., Schinzel, F. K., Serini, D., Sgrò, C., Siskind, E. J., Spandre, G., Spinelli, P., Suson, D. J., Thompson, D. J., Torres, D. F., Torresi, E., Troja, E., Valverde, J., van Zyl, P., Yassine, M.

“…The fourth catalog of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) detected by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Large Area Telescope (4LAC) between 2008 August 4 and 2016…”
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Impact of Clouds and Hazes on the Simulated JWST Transmission Spectra of Habitable Zone Planets in the TRAPPIST-1 System by Fauchez, Thomas J., Turbet, Martin, Villanueva, Geronimo L., Wolf, Eric T., Arney, Giada, Kopparapu, Ravi K., Lincowski, Andrew, Mandell, Avi, Wit, Julien de, Pidhorodetska, Daria, Domagal-Goldman, Shawn D., Stevenson, Kevin B.

“…The TRAPPIST-1 system, consisting of an ultracool host star having seven known Earth-sized planets, will be a prime target for atmospheric characterization…”
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The Dynamics, Destruction, and Survival of Supernova-formed Dust Grains by Slavin, Jonathan D., Dwek, Eli, Mac Low, Mordecai-Mark, Hill, Alex S.

“…Observations have demonstrated that supernovae efficiently produce dust. This is consistent with the hypothesis that supernovae and asymptotic giant branch…”
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Variability Timescale and Spectral Index of Sgr A in the Near Infrared: Approximate Bayesian Computation Analysis of the Variability of the Closest Supermassive Black Hole by Witzel, G., Martinez, G., Hora, J., Willner, S. P., Morris, M. R., Gammie, C., Becklin, E. E., Ashby, M. L. N., Baganoff, F., Carey, S., Do, T., Fazio, G. G., Ghez, A., Glaccum, W. J., Haggard, D., Herrero-Illana, R., Ingalls, J., Narayan, R., Smith, H. A.

“…Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) is the variable radio, near-infrared (NIR), and X-ray source associated with accretion onto the Galactic center black hole. We present…”
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Evidence of an Upper Bound on the Masses of Planets and Its Implications for Giant Planet Formation by Schlaufman, Kevin C.

“…Celestial bodies with a mass of have been found orbiting nearby stars. It is unknown whether these objects formed like gas-giant planets through core accretion…”
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FINAL MASSES OF GIANT PLANETS. II. JUPITER FORMATION IN A GAS-DEPLETED DISK by Tanigawa, Takayuki, Tanaka, Hidekazu

“…ABSTRACT First, we study the final masses of giant planets growing in protoplanetary disks through capture of disk gas, by employing empirical formulae for the…”
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Search for Lensing Signatures in the Gravitational-Wave Observations from the First Half of LIGO–Virgo’s Third Observing Run by Agathos, M., Ain, A., Altin, P. A., Ananyeva, A., Bals, M., Barish, B. C., Bhattacharjee, D., Bischi, M., Bisht, A., Blackburn, J. K., Boudart, V., Callister, T. A., Camp, J. B., Cannon, K. C., Capote, E., Carullo, G., Diaz, J. Casanueva, Chen, X., Cho, G., Ciecielag, P., Clark, J. A., Colleoni, M., Corban, P., Corezzi, S., Corre, D., Dattilo, V., Laurentis, M. De, Di Fronzo, C., Easter, P. J., Fejer, M. M., Ferguson, D. L., Fong, H., Font, J. A., Gosselin, M., Grace, B., Granata, M., Granata, V., Grant, A., Grimaldi, A., Grimm, S. J., Haskell, B., Hendry, M., Holmes, Z. J., Huddart, A. D., Hui, V., Idzkowski, B., Inchauspe, H., JaberianHamedan, V., Jan, A. Z., Jaume, R., Jia, W., Ju, L., Kasprzack, M., Khetan, N., Lartaux-Vollard, A., Leavey, S., Leroy, N., Levin, Y., Linker, S. D., Lo, R. K. L., Longo, A., Lundgren, A. P., Magee, R. M., Markakis, C., Marquina, A., McIsaac, C., Milotti, E., Morawski, F., Muciaccia, F., Munch, J., Nery, M., Noh, M., Ohta, H., Page, M. A., Pankow, C., Pierini, L., Placidi, E., Punturo, M., Romano, R., Sanuy, A., Sarin, N., Sayah, S., Sharifi, S., Shoemaker, D. H., Smith, J. R., Spera, M., Tao, D., Toland, K., Torrie, C. I., van Heijningen, J. V., Vitale, S., Vo, T., von Wrangel, J., Wade, L. E., Wallace, L., Willis, J. L., Woan, G., Yamamoto, H., Zadrożny, A., Zhao, C.

“…We search for signatures of gravitational lensing in the gravitational-wave signals from compact binary coalescences detected by Advanced Laser Interferometer…”
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