Interstellar Updates

 

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November 7, 2025 updates

Roadmap to the Stars: Space Development Master Plan
https://www.chicagospace.org/roadmap-to-the-stars-space-development-master-plan/

Brief review on influencing factors and future application prospects of laser ablation propulsion
https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S021886352530004X

Discovery of the Tidal Deformation of WASP-103b at 3 σ with CHEOPS
https://zenodo.org/records/17542924

HOW TELESCOPES TRANSFORM OUR UNDERSTANDING OF BLACK HOLES AND HABITABLE EXOPLANETS
https://zenodo.org/records/17531302

Demonstrate the Power of CNN for Exoplanets in Kepler’s Stellar Light Using Deep Learning
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-96-7614-9_24

Composite Adaptive Control for Safety-Critical Spacecraft Proximity Operations
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.G008872

Mapping Atmospheric Features of the Planetary-mass Brown Dwarf SIMP 0136 with JWST NIRISS
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae046d

FAUST. XXVIII. High-Resolution ALMA Observations of Class 0/I Disks: Structure, Optical Depths, and Temperatures
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.19635

Detectability of Atmospheric Climate and Biosignatures with the Large Interferometer for Exoplanets (LIFE) for terrestrial-type Exoplanets
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/staf1878/8317168

Precise mass and radius determination for two new and one known Neptune-sized planets around G Dwarf hosts
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/staf1958/8317175

Chasing the storm: Investigating the application of high-contrast imaging techniques in producing precise exoplanet light curves
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/staf1909/8314138

An Independent Search for Small Long-period Planets in Kepler Data. I. Detection Pipeline
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/adfc50

Photon-assisted displacement of directionally freeze-dried symmetric graphene aerogels
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264127525013759

Terrestrial iron biosignatures and their potential in solar system exploration for astrobiology
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001282522500279X

The Role of Hydrothermal Processes in the Evolution of Early Earth and Aquaplanets
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781394229185.ch15

Geochemical and Geophysical Controls on Hydrothermal Fluxes on Habitable Worlds
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781394229185.ch14

Early evidence for isotropic planetary obliquities in young super-Jupiter systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.04091

3D Non-LTE radiation transfer: theory and applications to stars, exoplanets, and kilonovae
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.04254

Transiting Exoplanets from Sharjah Astronomical Observatory (SAO-M47): The Exoplanet HAT-P-25b Using L and V Filters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.04396

Dust Collisions in Protoplanetary Disks: Atomic Simulations of the Surface Free Energy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.04423

On the Exoplanet Yield of Gaia Astrometry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.04673

November 07, 2025 updates

Roadmap to the Stars: Space Development Master Plan
https://www.chicagospace.org/roadmap-to-the-stars-space-development-master-plan/

Brief review on influencing factors and future application prospects of laser ablation propulsion
https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S021886352530004X

Discovery of the Tidal Deformation of WASP-103b at 3 σ with CHEOPS
https://zenodo.org/records/17542924

HOW TELESCOPES TRANSFORM OUR UNDERSTANDING OF BLACK HOLES AND HABITABLE EXOPLANETS
https://zenodo.org/records/17531302

Demonstrate the Power of CNN for Exoplanets in Kepler’s Stellar Light Using Deep Learning
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-96-7614-9_24

Composite Adaptive Control for Safety-Critical Spacecraft Proximity Operations
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.G008872

Mapping Atmospheric Features of the Planetary-mass Brown Dwarf SIMP 0136 with JWST NIRISS
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae046d

FAUST. XXVIII. High-Resolution ALMA Observations of Class 0/I Disks: Structure, Optical Depths, and Temperatures
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.19635

Detectability of Atmospheric Climate and Biosignatures with the Large Interferometer for Exoplanets (LIFE) for terrestrial-type Exoplanets
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/staf1878/8317168

Precise mass and radius determination for two new and one known Neptune-sized planets around G Dwarf hosts
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/staf1958/8317175

Chasing the storm: Investigating the application of high-contrast imaging techniques in producing precise exoplanet light curves
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/staf1909/8314138

An Independent Search for Small Long-period Planets in Kepler Data. I. Detection Pipeline
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/adfc50

Photon-assisted displacement of directionally freeze-dried symmetric graphene aerogels
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264127525013759

Terrestrial iron biosignatures and their potential in solar system exploration for astrobiology
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001282522500279X

The Role of Hydrothermal Processes in the Evolution of Early Earth and Aquaplanets
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781394229185.ch15

Geochemical and Geophysical Controls on Hydrothermal Fluxes on Habitable Worlds
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781394229185.ch14

Early evidence for isotropic planetary obliquities in young super-Jupiter systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.04091

3D Non-LTE radiation transfer: theory and applications to stars, exoplanets, and kilonovae
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.04254

Transiting Exoplanets from Sharjah Astronomical Observatory (SAO-M47): The Exoplanet HAT-P-25b Using L and V Filters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.04396

Dust Collisions in Protoplanetary Disks: Atomic Simulations of the Surface Free Energy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.04423

On the Exoplanet Yield of Gaia Astrometry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.04673

November 06, 2025 updates

Atmospheric collapse and re-inflation through impacts for terrestrial planets around M dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.25896

The evolution and internal structure of Neptunes and sub-Neptunes – The importance of thermal conductivity in non-convective regions
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/11/aa56526-25/aa56526-25.html

Terrestrial Exoplanet Internal Structure Constraints Enabled by Comprehensive Host Star Characterization Reveal That Terrestrial Planets in Mean Motion Resonances Are Water Rich
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae03a5

A Comprehensive Reanalysis of K2-18 b’s JWST NIRISS+NIRSpec Transmission Spectrum
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae019a

An Analysis of the Radius Gap in a Sample of Kepler, K2, and TESS Exoplanets Orbiting M-dwarf Stars
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae058e

The Distribution of Earth-Impacting Interstellar Objects
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.03374

An Adaptive Pseudo-Intelligent Material Hypothesis for the Observed Anomalies of the Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/397264326_An_Adaptive_Pseudo-Intelligent_Material_Hypothesis_for_the_Observed_Anomalies_of_the_Interstellar_Object_3IATLAS

Tidally Torn: Why the Most Common Stars May Lack Large, Habitable-Zone Moons
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.03625

The Exospace Weather Frontier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.02871

Determining the impact of post-main-sequence stellar evolution on the transiting giant planet population
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.02896

Formation of Free-Floating Planets via Ejection: Population Synthesis with a Realistic IMF and Comparison to Microlensing Observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.03246

Life in the dark: Potential urability of moons of rogue planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.03392

November 05, 2025 updates

Exoplanet Detection ML: Detection of Exoplanets with Machine Learning Techniques through Transit Light Curve Analysis
https://zenodo.org/records/17519369

ExoComp and the Library of Exoplanet Atmospheric Composition Measurements (LExACoM)
https://zenodo.org/records/17460496

The interstellar flux gap: From dust to kilometer-scale objects
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.01957

Dust back-reaction on gas around planets modifies the cold thermal torque
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.01973

ExoplaNeT accRetion mOnitoring sPectroscopic surveY (ENTROPY) – II. Time series of Balmer line profiles of Delorme 1(AB)b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.01979

A JWST Transit of a Jupiter Analog I: Constraints on the Oblateness of Kepler-167e
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.02067

The First Occurrence Rate Estimates for Exoplanets in Small-Separation Binary Star Systems: Planet Occurrence is Suppressed in Binary Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.02643

The Potential Impact of Primordial Black Holes on Exoplanet Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05389

November 04, 2025 updates

Enhancing Exoplanet Transit Detection in Noisy Stellar Light Curves Using Statistical Filtering Technique
https://zenodo.org/records/17500040

Three decades of the search for life on other planets
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s42254-025-00891-9

Atmospheric Mass Loss of Planet WASP-195b
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10511-025-09881-2

The origin and tidal evolution of hot Jupiters constrained by a broken age–frequency relation
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41550-025-02693-6

To make water, exoplanets might just need some pressure
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03214-1

Experiments reveal extreme water generation during planet formation
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09816-z

Unusual polarimetric response of interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS: Clues to the microphysics of particles populating its inner coma
https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnrasl/slaf112/8307494

HWO Target Stars and Systems: A Survey of Archival UV and X-Ray Data
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae0a2f

Differentiation, the Exception, Not the Rule: Evidence for Full Miscibility in Sub-Neptune Interiors
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ae1012

How does Γ⊕ Relate to η⊕?
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ae0d7f

The Coupled Tidal Evolution of the Moons and Spins of Warm Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.00161

Limits on forming coreless terrestrial worlds in the TRAPPIST-1 system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.01231

Chasing the storm: Investigating the application of high-contrast imaging techniques in producing precise exoplanet light curves
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.01384

Exoplanet climate characterization with transit asymmetries — A comprehensive population study from the optical to the infrared
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.01548

Detailed spectroscopic and photometric analysis of the remarkable planet-hosting wide binary system HD 202772A/B
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.01595

The Challenges Involved in the Detection of Gases in Exoplanet Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.21788

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