Interstellar Updates

High-temperature photovoltaics for solar-electric Oberth maneuvers: ton-class payload feasibility for interstellar-precursor missions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.11113

Perspectives on optical frequency comb research: sources, performance, and applications
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6501/ae8b11

TOI-7475 spectroscopic follow up – detection of a massive hot Jupiter on an eccentric orbit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.09679

The final design of GMagAO-X: high-contrast imaging at first-light of the GMT
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10212

Probing Planet Formation with JWST Spectroscopy of IC 348: Sustained Diversity but Limited Chemical Evolution and Pebble Drift
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae88eb

On the Utility of Transmission Color Analysis i: Differentiating Super-Earths and Sub-Neptunes
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac0e2c

Intense but Harmless: Exo-Space Weather Around an M Dwarf with a Single-Hemisphere Dynamo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.11087

Toward a unified framework for helium observations and interpretation of atmospheric escape
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10707

Detecting Extraterrestrial Civilizations that Employ an Earth-level Deep Space Network
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/adf6b0

The First Remotely Detected Biosignature May Not Be the Most Common: Implications for JWST and HWO
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae84cc

Mixing stochasticity relinquishes evidence for magnetorotational hypernovae
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stag1512

Non-ideal MHD and protostellar feedback effects on disk formation and evolution in numerical simulations of star cluster formation
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stag1501

Teleodynamic Closure and the Definition of Intelligence
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42567219/

A chemo-dynamical search for planet-candidate hosts of possible extragalactic origin
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stag1502

Discovery of the λ Bootis phenomenon in an early B-type star
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.06954

Circular polarization as a probe of cloud properties and asymmetries in giant exoplanet atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.04837

A Formation-Stage Bottleneck for Exomoons around Close-in Rocky Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.04512

Life 2.0: A Scalable Distributed Space-Telescope Array for Biosignature Spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.04342

Searching for Habitable Exoplanets with Relative Astrometry (SHERA). I. The Case for Searching for Planets in Binary Star Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.04250

The Evolutionary Track of H/He Envelopes of the Observed Population of Sub-Neptunes and Super-Earths
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab9a4d

The Influence of Age on the Relative Frequency of Super-Earths and Sub-Neptunes
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abea9e