Interstellar Updates

 

These are items of interest to the interstellar exploration community that we’ve found in our quest for information that will help us advance toward our goals.  If you know of anything we’ve overlooked, or any sources of such information we should monitor, or if you would like to be added to our IRG-updates mailing list and receive these updates in you email every weekday, please send that information to info@irg.space.

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November 13, 2026 Updates

TOI-1408: the limb darkening models, photometric and Doppler noises, and the exoplanetary system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.02434

Deep HST/STIS Coronagraphic Imaging of the β Pictoris Debris Disk: On the Scattered Light Component of the Cat’s Tail
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.30111

Effect of composition and pressure on diamond formation timescales from hydrocarbon demixing at icy planetary interior conditions
https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/5pwk-ll8k

Retention of primordial atmospheres through giant impacts
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.36446

Chemical Demographics of Star-forming Regions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.22303

November 12, 2026 Updates

AstroGenesis: A Domain-Specific Multi-Agent AI for Astrophysical Research
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.28579

Searching for Planets around Altair with JWST/NIRcam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.131324

ExoPlanetLab: Bayesian orbit fitting of Gaia-DR4 epoch astrometry, radial velocities and relative astrometry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.13770

Planetary material is a major source of hydrogen in helium-atmosphere white dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.13128

A Whole-planet Model of the Earth without Life for Terrestrial Exoplanet Studies
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ae9d79

November 11, 2026 Updates

The Physics of Interstellar Travel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.10651

The Tierras Observatory: Ultra-Precise Photometry for Characterizing Exoplanets and Their Host Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.12849

Evolving stellar wind environment around M dwarfs and its influence on magnetic star-planet interactions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.11642

The compositional link between rocky exoplanets and their host stars is consistent with Earth-like devolatilization
https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.12581

November 10, 2026 Updates

The Viability of Life in Helium-Dominated Exoplanet Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.15679

Pathfinder results for populations of planet-forming discs with SKA
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.22456

ExoEcho: Exoplanet Ephemerides Change Observations. III. A JWST Survey for Transit Timing Variations of 37 Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.19328

Mapping of interstellar ices with JWST in protostellar envelopes: Spatial variations of 13CO2, 12CO2, CO, OCN− and H2O ice
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.08491

Discovery of a second-generation planet candidate accreting onto a white dwarf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.07161

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