Review article(s):

• Exoplanetary Geophysics -- An Emerging Discipline
  covers a wide range of topics, including atmospherics

Wed, Feb 15

• An improved model of the Edgeworth-Kuiper debris disk
• A Method to Constrain the Size of the Protosolar Nebula

Direct Imaging

• VLT/NACO astrometry of the HR8799 planetary system. L'-band observations of the three outer planets
  Sample images which (barely) show 3 planets in this system
• Direct Imaging Constraints on the Putative Exoplanet 14 Her c
  Good example of "can't see anything."
• Confirmation and characterization of the protoplanet HD100546 b - Direct evidence for gas giant planet formation at 50 au IR imaging shows giant planet in a disk

Physical chars

• The Mass of Kepler-93b and The Composition of Terrestrial Planets
  has a nice figure showing the density of terrestrial-ish planets with masses between 0.5 and 20 Earth masses.
• A Semi-Analytical Model of Visible-Wavelength Phase Curves of Exoplanets and Applications to Kepler-7 b and Kepler-10 b
  explains how one can try to use visible-light observations around an exoplanet's orbit to distinguish different types of atmosphere/surface properties.

Other

• Multi-filter transit observations of WASP-39b and WASP-43b with three San Pedro Mártir telescopes
  Basic transit photometry paper. Wrote to first author on Dec 22 to request data.
• Five New Transit Epochs of the Exoplanet OGLE-TR-111b
  Illustration of TTV and its issues
• New Exoplanet-hunting Telescopes on Paranal
  Press release describing first light for a set of 8-inch telescopes (aka Next-Generation Transit Survey (NGTS)) dedicated to transit measurements.
• SOPHIE velocimetry of Kepler transit candidates XIV. A joint photometric, spectroscopic, and dynamical analysis of the Kepler-117 system
  Good example of TTV, with nice plots showing the variations in timing.
• Limits on low frequency radio emission from southern exoplanets with the Murchison Widefield Array
  Searching for exoplanets via radio emission -- as from aurorae on Earth or Jupiter. Hadn't heard of that method before, but giant planets like Jupiter might have radio-wave emission comparable to that of the host star.
• Validation of Twelve Small Kepler Transiting Planets in the Habitable Zone
  Kepler finds planets in habitable zone -- announced at Jan AAS.
• Does the presence of planets affect the frequency and properties of extrasolar Kuiper Belts? Results from the Herschel DEBRIS and DUNES surveys
  Answer: No -- there's little corelation between the presence of planets and debris disks.
• Fargo3D: a code for circumstellar calculations
• Modeling giant extrasolar ring systems in eclipse and the case of J1407b: sculpting by exomoons? It's a circumstellar disk ... with rings!
• Habitable Evaporated Cores: Transforming Mini-Neptunes into Super-Earths in the Habitable Zones of M Dwarfs How to turn a small gas giant into a big terrestrial planet.
• Planetary Candidates Observed by \ik V: Planet Sample from Q1-Q12 (36 Months) Update to Kepler results after 3 years of observations.
• HATS-9b AND HATS-10b: TWO COMPACT HOT JUPITERS IN FIELD 7 OF THE K2 MISSION
  Two planets in Kepler field, discovered by HATS. Both hot Jupiters. From Mar 3, 2015, so "in the news," maybe.
• One of the closest planet pairs to the 3:2 Mean Motion Resonance, confirmed with K2 observations and Transit Timing Variations: EPIC201505350
  A good example of transit-timing variations, I think.
• Hubble Space Telescope search for the transit of the Earth-mass exoplanet Alpha Centauri Bb
  Illustration of HST quality of light curves