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 25, 2026 Updates

Mapping the WISPIT2 Planet-Hosting Cavity at Sub-Hill-Radius scales
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.04946

1I/’Oumuamua-like objects’s SFDs with older, current and future surveys
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.25488

On-demand microfluidic synthesis of silver nanoparticles for SERS detection of organic compounds: A preliminary feasibility study for astrobiology applications
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1386142526013478

GEMS JWST: Hold on to Your HATS(-6 b), a Subsolar-metallicity Giant Planet with Water, Methane, and Ammonia in its Atmosphere
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae9858

Evidence for an Atmosphere on the Ultra-short-period Super-Earth HD 3167 b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae7f23

September 24, 2026 Updates

The effect of microgravity and flows on the organization and dynamics of the human genome
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aeh3116

High-Resolution Modelling of Coronae and Winds in Solar-type Stars with Varying Rotation Rates II. Stellar Winds
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.28067

Characterization of the Compact Multi-planet System TOI-789: Validation of Three Terrestrial Planets, Dynamical Characterization, and Detection of a Fourth Temperate Candidate
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.22945

Probing Exoplanetary Chemistry with Ariel: Scientific Priorities and Observational Strategies
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.27622

Stellar flares with Ariel: detection prospects and impacts on exoplanet spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.28001

The Science Potential of Characterizing Gas Giant Exoplanets with HWO
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.22653

September 23, 2026 Updates

Characterization of Planetary Systems with Astrometry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.26664

Transport and Thermochemical Kinetics of Alkali Species in Hot Jupiter Atmospheres: Implications for Magnetic Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.26432

Possible Observational Survey Strategies to Maximize Exoplanet Yields: A Report from the Survey Strategies Task Group in the Exoplanet Science Yields Working Group
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.25540

Inside the Eirenesphere: The Interplay of Porosity, Heat Flux and Mineralogy in Exoplanetary Aquable and Habitable Layers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.25280

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