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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April 16, 2025 updates

Global Mean-Motion Resonances: Part I—An Exceptional Multiplanetary Resonant Chain in TOI-270 and an Exact Laplace-like Resonance in HD 110067
https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4434/13/2/42

Deciphering Sub-Neptune Atmospheres: New Insights from Geochemical Models of TOI-270 d
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09752

The Comet Interceptor Mission
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-023-01035-0

Project Lyra – Exploring Interstellar Objects
https://i4is.org/what-we-do/technical/project-lyra

The SPIRou Legacy Survey – Near-infrared and optical radial velocity analysis of Gl 480 and Gl 382 using SPIRou, HARPS and CARMENES spectrographs
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/04/aa47814-23/aa47814-23.html

Occurrence Rates of Accreting Companions from a New Method for Computing Emission-line Survey Sensitivity: Application to the Hα Giant Accreting Protoplanet Survey
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/adc09d

RedDots: Planetary masses in the GJ1061 system from planet-planet interaction
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.10926

Tidal interactions in stellar and planetary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.10941

Keplerian motion of a compact source orbiting the inner disk of PDS 70: A third protoplanet in a resonance with b and c?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.11127

Differentiating Formation Models with New Dynamical Masses for the PDS 70 Protoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.11210

April 15, 2025 Updates

Water-cooled (sub)-Neptunes get better gas mileage
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/04/aa53667-25/aa53667-25.html

Transit-APP: A Centroid-free Method of Identifying Background Transit False Positives
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/adcb3a

An Analysis of Spitzer Phase Curves for WASP-121b and WASP-77Ab
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/adc0a4

HST SHEL: Revealing Haze and Confirming Elevated Metallicity in the Warm Neptune HAT-P-26b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/adc1c1

Unveiling the atmosphere of the super-Jupiter HAT-P-14 b with JWST NIRISS and NIRSpec
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.08903

Precise radial velocities of giant stars — XVII. Distinguishing planets from intrinsically induced radial velocity signals in evolved stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09087

Deciphering Sub-Neptune Atmospheres: New Insights from Geochemical Models of TOI-270 d
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09752

Polarimetry of exoplanet-exomoon systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.10126

April 14, 2025 updates

Astroethics and Interstellar Communication
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-83085-3_124

Global Mean-Motion Resonances: Part II—Laplace-like Phase Angles to Facilitate Libration Searches in Multiplanetary N-body Simulations
https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4434/13/2/41

A mini-TRAPPIST-1 system around Barnard’s Star
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02543-5

Dinner with a Star: Stellar Engulfment of Exoplanet Systems
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/adcb36

Long-term evolution of the temperature structure in magnetized protoplanetary disks and its implication for the dichotomy of planetary composition
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.08042

A Swarm of WASP Planets: Nine giant planets identified by the WASP survey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.08091

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Cluster analysis of signals from spectral activity indicators to search for shared periods
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.08363

Bifurcated Evolutionary Pathways in Multi-planet Systems Driven by Misaligned Protoplanetary Disks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.08436

April 11, 2025 updates

Revealing a Main-sequence Star that Consumed a Planet with JWST
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adb429

Energy-ordered resource stratification as an agnostic signature of life
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-58206-6

Keplerian motion of a compact source orbiting the inner disk of PDS 70: A third protoplanet in a resonance with b and c?
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/staf586/8110708

Hα Variability of AB Aur b with the Hubble Space Telescope: Probing the Nature of a Protoplanet Candidate with Accretion Light Echoes
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/adb6a1

The Minimum Mass of Planets, Dwarf Planets, and Planetary-scale Satellites
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.07161

A new look into the atmospheric composition of WASP-39 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.07823

April 10, 2025 updates

Disc-planet misalignment from an unstable triple system: IRAS04125
https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnrasl/slaf032/8109609

Planet-comet interaction as another mechanism for formation of super-puff exoplanets
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/staf581/8109630

Floaters on the Surfaces of Red Dwarfs
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/adc9af

JWST COMPASS: NIRSpec/G395H Transmission Observations of TOI-776 c, a 2 R⊕ M Dwarf Planet
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/adb975

The JWST Early Release Science Program for Direct Observations of Exoplanetary Systems. III. Aperture Masking Interferometric Observations of the Star HIP 65426 at 3.8 μm
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/adaeb7

The likelihood of not detecting cavity-carving companions in transition discs — A statistical approach
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.06337

Photobombing for the Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE). A new criterion for target confusion and application to a MIR rotating nulling interferometer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.06776

TOI-6478 b: a cold under-dense Neptune transiting a fully convective M dwarf from the thick disc
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.06848

Combining high-contrast imaging with high-resolution spectroscopy: Actual on-sky MIRI/MRS results compared to expectations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.06890

Characterizing planetary material accreted by cool helium atmosphere white dwarfs using an exponentially decaying disc model
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.05345

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