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 30, 2026 Updates

Challenges and limitations for live cell imaging in extreme cold
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2050-6120/ae8c12

Theoretical Determination of the Binding Energies of Methanol and Related Species onto Amorphous Solid Water Ice
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae84bb

An interstellar energetic and non-aqueous pathway to peptide formation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.26814

The Expected Yield of Venus Zone Terrestrial Planets from PLATO
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ae8b2a

HARMONI@ELT: instrument design, performance, and science capabilities
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.26537

ForMoSA: Forward Modeling tool for Spectral Analysis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.26243

A Search for Narrowband Technosignatures from LTT 3780 with the Allen Telescope Array and the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae86f0

Characterization and on-sky testing of photonic, AWG-based astronomical spectrographs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.26954

Atmospheric Characterization of Six Ultrahot Jupiters from K-band High-resolution Spectroscopy
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae88f6

Uniform Metallicity Measurements of M Dwarf Planet Hosts Support Metallicity-dependent Sub-Neptune Formation
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae8850

July 23, 2026 Updates

Sky-Plane Velocity Distributions of Interstellar Objects and Implications for Their Detection
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.05344

Asgard/NOTT: Cryogenic characterization of the mid-infrared chip
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20191

Gaia Exoplanet Orbits, Demographics, and Evolution Survey (GEODES): Characteristics of Three Long-Period Companions Accelerating their Host Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.23018

Planetesimal Formation Across the Stellar Mass Spectrum and its Influence on Exoplanet-Inherited Volatile Budgets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20271

Achieving efficient broadband spatial filtering for LIFE: status and plan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20154

The Capability of CSST in Characterizing Planetary Atmospheres. I. Transmission Spectroscopy of Hot Jupiters
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae80c5

Physics-inspired illumination decoupling for robust optical imaging and space object localization
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6501/ae80ea

Narrowband Radio Technosignature Search Toward 3I/ATLAS with FAST
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae8025

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