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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September 3, 2026 Updates

3.5-meter Segmented-Mirror Robotic Space Telescope Mission White Paper I. Overall Architecture and Scientific Mission
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.02571

Mass constraints for the K2-223 system planets: An ultra-short-period sub-Earth, a short-period super-Earth, and a tentative long-period giant planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.01721

Precise Stellar Age Constraints and Habitable Zone Evolution in Exoplanet Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.01790

A non-extensive diagnostic of spin-orbit coupling in close-in giant exoplanets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1209/0295-5075/ae933c

Planet formation in chemically diverse and evolving discs II. Chemical fingerprints in planetary atmospheres
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/09/aa59459-26/aa59459-26.html

September 2, 2026 Updates

Spectral Energy Distribution Analysis for Habitable Worlds Observatory Target Stars
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ae99ff

Accelerating Chemical Kinetics for Exoplanet Atmospheres using Neural Networks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.00428

A JWST transiting survey of FGK stellar limb darkening: empirical evidence for quadratic laws and atmospheric model comparisons
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.00263

Exoplanets in star clusters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.01013

Addressing the low-wind effect with the Lyot-based low-order wavefront sensor on SCExAO
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.00737

 

August 27, 2026 Updates

Catalytic non-energetic formation of diverse peptides on cosmic dust under extraterrestrial conditions
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s42004-026-02159-4

Deep Learning-Based Coarse Alignment and Cophasing of a Distributed-Aperture Telescope. Application to the Small ExoLife Finder (SELF)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.25173

RISTRETTO: Assembly and Testing of the Seven-spaxel, High-resolution, Diffraction-limited Spectrograph
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.25867

Flyby-induced high-eccentricity migration and the prevalence of hot Jupiters in M67
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.24874

Discovery and Characterization of the TOI-4468 Planetary System: A Transiting Hot Jupiter With a Lone Nearby Outer Companion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.25208

JWST color sequence of transiting exoplanets and directly imaged substellar objects
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.25993

Spatially Scanned STIS Spectra of the Exoplanet Host Star 55 Cnc
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.25184

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