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 25, 2026 Updates

Magnetic field strengths of hot giant exoplanets consistent with Solar System values
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41550-026-02870-1

Constraining an exoplanets magnetic field using star-planet interactions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.06969

Detecting and Characterizing Companions with a Calibrated Gaia DR2, DR3, and Hipparcos Catalog (G23H)
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae64ed

The Keck Planet Finder SURFS-UP Survey. I. Transmission Spectroscopy of WASP-76 b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae71b9

The Discovery of Five Hot Jupiters by TESS
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae6449

Lessons Learnt on the Formation and Evolution of Young Planetary Systems from Ultraviolet Spectroscopy
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-026-01304-8

Selecting Optimal Stellar Calibration Fields for the CSST Imaging Survey
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1674-4527/ae7401

Various inorganic phosphorus species in prebiotic Earth and extraterrestrial settings
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s44371-026-00835-x

Cardiovascular risks and hazards associated with deep space exploration
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s43856-026-01728-x

June 24, 2026 Updates

The Persistent Missing Mass Problem in Planet Formation
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae796f

Environmental interactions in Class II systems and their impact on the disk-planet architecture
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.21533

Astrobiology in the Time of Artificial Intelligence
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.23854

An Agnostic Machine Learning Model of Photosynthetic Habitability
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.24458

Photochemical Production of CS2 in Temperate-to-Warm Gas Giant Exoplanet Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.23820

Upper Limits on Planet-induced Gigahertz Radio Emission from Inactive M Dwarfs
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae6b80

Ultra-Precise Astrometric Search for Exoplanets with SKA-VLBI
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.24862

Effects of Super-rotating Jets on Phase-Resolved Transmission Spectra at High Spectral Resolution
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.23910

Hydrogen airglow from an escaping ultrahot Jupiter atmosphere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.23899

June 19, 2026 Updates

TOI-2147 b and TOI-6019 b: Two eccentric warm Jupiters detected and characterized with TESS and MaHPS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.20224

Geophysical and atmospheric implications of fO2-dependent melting on rocky exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.20249

Atmospheric diversity of sub-Neptunes from formation with rock, water, and soot
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.20464

Modeling Doppler Shifts in Radial-Velocity Data with Deep Learning toward Earth-mass Exoplanet Detection
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.18464

Dust colour, phase bahaviour, and Monte Carlo modelling of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS from 4 au pre- to 4 au post-perihelion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.18751

ThousandWorlds: A benchmark for climate emulation of potentially habitable exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.18338

Strong and variable stratospheric CO emission from lava-planet 55 Cnc e observed with NIRCam/JWST
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11866

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