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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June 18, 2025 updates

High-resolution, high-efficiency narrowband spectroscopy with an s-p-phased holographic grating in double pass
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/06/aa54218-25/aa54218-25.html

Clouds Can Enhance Direct-imaging Detection of O2 and O3 on Terrestrial Exoplanets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/add46b

Detection of Hydrocarbons in the Disk around an Actively Accreting Planetary-mass Object
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/add71d

Multiplicity of young isolated planetary mass objects in Taurus and Upper Scorpius
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14380

BEBOP VII. SOPHIE discovery of BEBOP-3b, a circumbinary giant planet on an eccentric orbit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14615

SETI@home: Data Acquisition and Front-End Processing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14718

SETI@home: Data Analysis and Findings
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14737

Technosignature Searches with Real-time Alert Brokers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14744

June 17, 2025 updates

UVC-Intense Exoplanets May Not Be Uninhabitable: Evidence from a Desert Lichen
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2024.0137

Dual Spectral Resonance on Interstellar Signals: A Theoretical Framework for Hidden Symmetries in Anomalous Radio Events
https://zenodo.org/records/15678378

Modeling helium in exoplanet atmospheres. A revised network with photoelectron-driven processes
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/06/aa55145-25/aa55145-25.html

Collisional ionization data for research of interstellar medium and planetary atmospheres
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1402-4896/ade50b

The Detection-vs-Retrieval Challenge: Titan as an Exoplanet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12144

Breakthrough Listen: A Technosignature Search Around 27 Eclipsing Exoplanets Selected from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite Catalogue
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13459

Tides Tighten the Hycean Habitable Zone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12651

Hubble’s Multi-Year Search for Exospheres in the TRAPPIST-1 System Reveals Frequent Microflares
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12140

Re-analysis of 10 Hot-Jupiter Atmospheres with disequilibrium chemistry retrieval
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12806

Tidal dissipation and synchronization of the temperate exo-Earth LP 791-18d
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13621

Numerical approach to second-order canonical perturbation theory in the planetary 3-body problem. Application to exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13745

June 16, 2025 updates

The Extraterrestrial Contact Window
https://www.academia.edu/129000327/The_Extraterrestrial_Contact_Window

Evolving Paradigms in the Search for Advanced Extraterrestrial Intelligence
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02604027.2025.2518485

From biomarkers in exoplanet atmospheres to Universe expansion: the combined power of ANDES and the Extremely Large Telescope
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12210-025-01341-5

Frigid Exoplanet in Strange Orbit Imaged by NASA’s Webb
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/frigid-exoplanet-in-strange-orbit-imaged-by-nasas-webb/

A massive planet with a low-mass host challenges formation theories
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02560-4

ALMA millimetre-wavelength imaging of HD 138965: New constraints on the debris dust composition and presence of planetary companions
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/staf984/8162742

Methanol storage in high-pressure clathrate hydrates as a prolonged source of methane in large ocean worlds
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X25002778

Micro-Mirror-Devices (MMDs): A New Family of MOEMS for the Habitable World Observatory
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11340

The mutual influence of disequilibrium composition and temperature in exoplanet atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11658

The Diversity of Exoplanetary Environments and the Search for Signs of Life Beyond Earth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11690

Inner disc and circumplanetary material in the PDS 70 system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11709

Spot-Crossing Variations Confirm a Misaligned Orbit for a Planet Transiting an M Dwarf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11998

June 13, 2025 Updates

Imprints of torsion-like Rastall theory in the construction of wormholes exhibiting conformal motion
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003491625001599

Wormhole thermodynamics in matter-geometry coupled theory: Implications of pseudo-isothermal profile and complexity factor
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0550321325001798

The new science of Unidentified Aerospace-Undersea Phenomena (UAP)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0376042125000235

The True Stellar Obliquity of a Sub-Saturn Planet from the Tierras Observatory and the Keck Planet Finder
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/add530

Solved: the mystery of the evaporating planet
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01684-x

No influence of passing stars on paleoclimate reconstructions over the past 56 million years
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10158

On the Efficacy of Ocean Formation with a Primordial Hydrogen Atmosphere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10417

The Gap-Giant Association: Are Planets Hiding in the Gaps?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10969

Starbound: Interstellar Travel and the Limits of the Possible
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/starbound/43228906C11D08A19CBEC439CD2F49D6

Planetary geodynamics and age constraints on circumstellar habitable zones around main sequence stars – CORRIGENDUM
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/planetary-geodynamics-and-age-constraints-on-circumstellar-habitable-zones-around-main-sequence-stars-corrigendum/268709F7DC2F4F155981DED5334B0C3C

On the Mass Budget Problem of Protoplanetary Disks: Streaming Instability and Optically Thick Emission
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10435

Hints of planet formation signatures in a large-cavity disk studied in the AGE-PRO ALMA Large Program
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.16651

Abundance Effects from Protoplanetary Disk Outflows
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04199

Attitude Control of Solar Sail with Reflectivity Control Devices
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.19865

June 12, 2025 updates

Earth-mass planets with He atmospheres in the habitable zone of Sun-like stars
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02550-6

75 years after Fermi’s paradox, are we any closer to finding alien life?
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/06/maybe-the-aliens-would-rather-not/

OGLE-2015-BLG-1609Lb: A sub-Jovian planet orbiting a low-mass stellar or brown dwarf host
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/06/aa53454-24/aa53454-24.html

A Third Star in the HAT-P-7 System and a New Dynamical Pathway to Misaligned Hot Jupiters
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/add5f7

Systematic Search for FFPs in KMTNet Full-frame Images. I. Photometry Pipeline
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/add9cf

JWST Coronagraphic Images of 14 Her c: a Cold Giant Planet in a Dynamically Hot, Multi-planet System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09201

Impact chronology of leftover planetesimals
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08499

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