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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July 16, 2026 Updates

Supernova Neutrinos and the Origin of Biomolecular Homochirality
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.12813

Biosignature detectability on transiting habitable worlds with ELT/ANDES
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.12017

TESS Photometry and Radial Velocity Analysis of the sub-Neptune Exoplanet π Mensae c and the Wider π Mensae Planetary System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.12088

Discovering and Characterising Exoplanets and Ultracool Dwarfs with the Square Kilometre Array
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.11507

Ardua: Unveiling the Baryon Cycle from Stars to the Cosmic Web
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.11865

July 15, 2026 Updates

Discovery of an Exterior Third Planet Orbiting β Pictoris
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae801b

Modeling the Curved Dust Sublimation Front in Protoplanetary Disks: A Potential Probe of Midplane Turbulence
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae8255

Cradle of Life: From the Formation of Stars to Habitable Worlds with the SKAO
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.13867

Update on the Magellan InfraRed Multi-Object Spectrograph (MIRMOS)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.14052

Reflation: redox-driven atmospheric inflation as tracer of super-Earth geochemistry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.13793

July 9, 2026 Updates

Climates of temperate rocky planets with He-dominated atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.06857

Exoplanet Detection Using Adaptive Quantum-Optimal Measurement
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.06931

Radio emission from close-in exoplanets: Can we extend the radio-magnetic scaling law to the sub-Alfvénic stellar wind regime?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.07704

“Perfect” spectra for ESO’s HARPS spectrograph
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.06809

Mitigating Charge Migration in JWST NIRISS Reveals That KELT-7 b is a Metal-enriched Ultra-hot Jupiter Orbiting a Young Metal-rich Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.06708

Decolonizing technosignatures: Reimagining technosignatures through an Indigenist lens
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.07592

July 8, 2026 Updates

DebrisWatch II: Digging Deeper for Geosynchronous Debris
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40295-026-00602-1

Assessing the Impact of Varying HSO Cross Sections on Photochemical Models: Implications for the Spectral Characterization of Terrestrial Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.04275

Atmospheric characterization of six ultra-hot Jupiters from K-band high-resolution spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.03992

Evidence for an Atmosphere on the Ultra-Short Period super-Earth HD 3167 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.11911

Planetary-Mass Exosatellite Detected Around the Substellar Companion of a Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.05193

Star Planet Interactions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.03874

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