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 04, 2025 updates

Volatile-rich evolution of molten super-Earth L 98-59 d
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02656

A Hot Jupiter with a Retrograde Orbit around a Sun-like Star and a Toy Model of Hot Jupiters in Wide Binary Star Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02667

Discovery and Preliminary Characterization of a Third Interstellar Object: 3I/ATLAS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02757

A Highly Carbon-Rich Dayside and Disequilibrium Chemistry in the Ultra-Hot Jupiter WASP-19b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02797

A Ground-Based Transit Observation of the Long-Period Extremely Low-Density Planet HIP 41378 f
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20907

Detecting and characterising the magnetic field of exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02010

The importance of the dynamical corotation torque for the migration of low-mass planets — 1D analytical prescriptions verified by 2D hydrodynamical simulations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02050

Uniform Reanalysis of JWST MIRI 15μm Exoplanet Eclipse Observations using Frame-Normalized Principal Component Analysis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02052

Impact of rotation on synthetic mass-radius relationships of two-layer rocky planets and water worlds
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02112

Exoplanet Atmospheric Refraction Effects in the Kepler Sample
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02126

The 3D Cosmic Shoreline for Nurturing Planetary Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02136

July 03, 2025 updates

Comprehensive Analysis on Dyson’s Sphere as an Energy Harnessing Megastructures
https://www.ijisrt.com/comprehensive-analysis-on-dysons-sphere-as-an-energy-harnessing-megastructures

New interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is hurtling through the solar system — and you can watch it live online today
https://www.space.com/astronomy/comets/new-interstellar-comet-3i-atlas-is-hurtling-through-the-solar-system-and-you-can-watch-it-live-online-today

Third-ever confirmed interstellar object blazing through solar system (Update)
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-astronomers-track-solar.html

Updated Mass, Eccentricity, and Tidal Heating Constraints for the Earth-sized Planet LP 791-18 d
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/addf2d

ELemental Abundances of Planets and Brown Dwarfs Imaged around Stars (ELPIS). II. The Jupiter-like Inhomogeneous Atmosphere of the First Directly Imaged Planetary-mass Companion 2MASS 1207 b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/addfcb

HST pre-imaging of a free-floating planet candidate microlensing event
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01109

Giant planet formation via pebble accretion across different stellar masses
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01212

The HR 8799 Debris Disc: Shaped by Planetary Migration and a Possible Fifth Outermost Planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01589

The star HIP 41378 potentially misaligned with its cohort of long-period planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01807

The TESS Grand Unified Hot Jupiter Survey. III. Thirty More Giant Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01855

July 02, 2025 updates

GOTO065054+593624: An 8.5 mag amplitude dwarf nova identified in real time via Kilonova Seekers
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/07/aa53823-25/aa53823-25.html

A new alloy is enabling ultra-stable structures needed for exoplanet discovery
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-alloy-enabling-ultra-stable-exoplanet.html

Challenge-Based Funding to Spark Origins Breakthroughs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00106

Orbit and atmosphere of HIP 99770 b through the eyes of VLTI/GRAVITY
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00117

Testing Origin-of-Life Theories with the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00164

Prebiosignatures with the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00165

Diversity of rocky planet atmospheres in the C-H-O-N-S-Cl system with interior dissolution, non-ideality, and condensation: Application to TRAPPIST-1e and sub-Neptunes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00499

Sub-Neptunes Are Drier Than They Seem: Rethinking the Origins of Water-Rich Worlds
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00765

Close-in planet induces flares on its host star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00791

Searching for planet-induced radio signal from the young close-in planet host star HIP 67522
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00796

A first look at rocky exoplanets with JWST
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00933

Differentiation, the exception not the rule — Evidence for full miscibility in sub-Neptune interiors
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00947

July 01, 2025 updates

The Convergence of the Four Fundamental Technologies Enabling Human Evolution as A Space Faring Civilization
https://www.aakashgangaopen.in/mega-journal/engineering/article/the-convergence-of-the-four-fundamental-technologies-enabling-human-evolution-as-a-space-faring-civilization

Triogenesis: Resolving the Fermi Paradox and Exoplanet Search Criteria from the Perspective of the Generative Replica
https://zenodo.org/records/15778850

Exo-Habitability-Ranker
https://zenodo.org/records/15766255

A high mutual inclination system around KOI-134 revealed by transit timing variations
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02594-8

CORALIE radial-velocity search for companions around evolved stars (CASCADES) – IV. New planetary systems around HD 87816, HD 94890, and HD 102888 and an update on HD 121056
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/07/aa54137-25/aa54137-25.html

The atmospheres of rocky exoplanets – III. Using atmospheric spectra to constrain surface rock composition
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/07/aa53069-24/aa53069-24.html

Exploring the habitability and interior composition of exoplanets lying within the extended habitable zone
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/staf1057/8178515

Giant Outer Transiting Exoplanet Mass (GOT ‘EM) Survey. VI. Confirmation of a Long-period Giant Planet Discovered with a Single TESS Transit
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/add88b

Planetary sustainability science and technology: Integrating Astro-soil, Astro-environmental engineering and Astro-habitat engineering for space exploration
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048969725015992

Are Helium Atmospheres Hiding as Volatile-rich in Current Exoplanet Analysis Frameworks?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22537

Characterizing the Dynamics and Chemistry of Transiting Exoplanets with the Habitable World Observatory
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22839

Three-dimensional Transport-induced Chemistry on Temperate sub-Neptune K2-18b, Part I: the Effects of Atmospheric Dynamics
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23891

A planet-host ratio relation to synthesize microlensing and transiting exoplanet demography from Roman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.24004

Tidal Inflation is Stronger for Misaligned Neptune-Sized Planets Than Aligned Ones
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.24100

Studying Protoplanets and Protoplanetary Disks with the Habitable Worlds Observatory
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.24129

June 30, 2025 Updates

Technological Signatures of Super Civilizations: Gargantuan Structures and Enormous Energies or “Invisibility” Due to Low Energy Solutions to Complex Problems and Quantum Engineering
https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202506.1875/v1

Rethinking planetary protection: an island biogeographical analysis
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2025.0079

‘Oumuamua as a Decayed Transdimensional Propulsion Artifact An Analysis via Graviton Displacement Drift and Inertial Memory Fields
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/393007658_%27Oumuamua_as_a_Decayed_Transdimensional_Propulsion_Artifact_An_Analysis_via_Graviton_Displacement_Drift_and_Inertial_Memory_Fields

Spaceborne and spaceborn: Physiological aspects of pregnancy and birth during interplanetary flight
https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/EP092290

Ray trajectories and wave optics in a traversable wormhole: Optics of a minimal surface
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0550321325002093

Stellar flares hamper search for life in promising star system
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0262407925010176

Advanced System Engineering Approaches to Emerging Challenges in Planetary and Deep-Space Exploration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21648

A Demonstration of Interstellar Navigation Using New Horizons
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21666

Apache Point Observatory follow-up of ACcelerating Candidate ExopLanet host Stars (APO ACCELS): Ages for 166 Accelerating Stars in the Northern Hemisphere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21755

Astrometric Accelerations of Provisional Targets for the Habitable Worlds Observatory
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21768

Detecting Land with Reflected Light Spectroscopy to Rule Out Waterworld O2 Biosignature False Positives
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21790

A high stellar multiplicity rate amongst TESS planet candidates in the Neptunian desert using Gaia DR3 astrometry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22399

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