Interstellar Updates

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

Spatial profiles and scale lengths of nickel, iron, and CN on the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/08/aa60649-26/aa60649-26.html

Systematic and Statistical Uncertainties in the Non-Gravitational Acceleration of 3I/ATLAS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.00782

A broad exploration of climate and observability of close-in rocky exoplanets: applications to Ross 128 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.03857

Helium-poor winds do not require helium-poor planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.03980

Three-dimensional temporal evolution of photochemical hazes in exoplanet atmospheres
I. Description and test application to HD 189733b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/08/aa60641-26/aa60641-26.html

Phase-curve approach to study atmospheric flows in hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.03406

Modeling Doppler shifts in radial-velocity data with deep learning toward Earth-mass exoplanet detection
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/08/aa59375-26/aa59375-26.html

Escape of water- and metal-enriched atmospheres from compact hot mini-Neptunes with CHAIN
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/08/aa57919-25/aa57919-25.html

Gas phase ion species released during grain collisions: Implications for protoplanetary disks
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/08/aa59615-26/aa59615-26.html

Formation of multiple dust rings and gaps in protoplanetary discs by a single migrating planet
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/08/aa60413-26/aa60413-26.html

Silicate clouds, SiO, and molecular trends across the L–T sequence: a JWST/MIRI LRS spectral library of brown dwarfs
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stag1387

Visible Octave Frequency Combs in Silicon Nitride Nanophotonic Waveguides Driven by Ti:Sapphire Lasers
https://doi.org/10.1002/lpor.71640

Invar alloys in advanced manufacturing: thermal treatment processes, properties, and applications
https://doi.org/10.1007/s40964-026-01846-

Assessing the susceptibility of microalgae to space conditions using stratospheric balloons
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-62687-w

Decoupling surface topography from gravitational acceleration in cryogenic pool boiling
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41526-026-00631-y

A Systematic Trend in the Observed vs. Predicted Radii of Transiting Brown Dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.27352

High-Resolution Dayside Spectroscopy of the Ultra-Hot Jupiter WASP-178b with GHOST/Gemini South
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.27363

Stellar Activity, Exoplanet, Habitability, Planetary Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.27531

Accretion Burst Crystallizes Silicates in a Planet-Forming Disk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.27765

Characterizing the oxidation state of rocky exoplanets with the Large Interferometer for Exoplanets (LIFE)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.28121

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