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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August 20, 2025 updates

Linear-Mode Gain HgCdTe Avalanche Photodiodes for Weak-Target Spaceborne Photonic System
https://www.mdpi.com/2304-6732/12/8/829

Cold Jupiters and small planets: Friends, foes, or indifferent? – A search for correlations with the largest exoplanet samples
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/08/aa52523-24/aa52523-24.html

Interaction of Trappist-1 exoplanets with coronal mass ejections: Joule heating, Poynting fluxes, and the role of magnetic fields
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/08/aa54431-25/aa54431-25.html

On the Ordering of Exoplanet Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13274

Earth-Mass Planets in Tandem Disks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13269

A comprehensive spectroscopic reference of the solar system and its application to exoplanet direct imaging
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13368

Discovery of a multi-planetary system orbiting the aged Sun-like star HD 224018
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13684

Detecting False Positives With Derived Planetary Parameters: Experimenting with the KEPLER Dataset
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13801

August 19, 2025 updates

Unlocking the Secrets of Deep Space: AI Techniques for Object Detection in Astronomical Imagery
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-96-7445-9_4

Arecibo Wow! II: Revised Properties of the Wow! Signal from Archival Ohio SETI Data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10657

TidalPy
https://zenodo.org/records/16883555

Activity of TIC 88785435 and Atmospheric Mass Loss of its Planet
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10511-025-09867-0

Modelling and numerical optimisation of refractive surface patterns for transmissive solar sails
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009457652500195X?via%3Dihub

Radial velocity homogeneous analysis of M dwarfs observed with HARPS – II. Detection limits and planetary occurrence statistics
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/08/aa51142-24/aa51142-24.html

Characterizing planetary systems with SPIRou: Detection of a sub-Neptune in a 6-day period orbit around the M dwarf Gl 410
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/08/aa52513-24/aa52513-24.html

Development of a New Ground-based Instrumentation Technique for Low-resolution Exoplanet Transmission Spectroscopy
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/adf358

Fine-tuning a narrowband SETI signal processing pipeline
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576525005259

The single beacon: progresses in understanding Earth as an exoplanet using DSCOVR/EPIC observations
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/remote-sensing/articles/10.3389/frsen.2025.1635015/full

TIRAMISU: Non-LTE radiative transfer for molecules in exoplanet atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12873

Optical Cavity in Relativistic Regime for Laser Propulsion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12442

Theory of Exozodi Sources and Dust Evolution
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11754

Evidence for ultra-water-rich ammonia hydrates stabilized in icy exoplanetary mantles
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11924

Destruction of “Peas in a Pod?” A Candidate Multi-planet System Around the Nearby, Bright Star, HD208487
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12447

The JWST Rocky Worlds DDT Program reveals GJ 3929b to likely be a bare rock
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12516

The Fraction of Distilled White Dwarfs with Long-Lived Habitable Zones
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12600

An empirical determination of the Cosmic Shoreline
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12865

Aligned Stellar Obliquities for Two Hot Jupiter-hosting M Dwarfs Revealed by MAROON-X: Implications for Hot Jupiter Formation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13145

August 18, 2025 Updates

Beyond the Horizon: A Statistical Odyssey in the Quest for Extraterrestrial Life
https://link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/978-3-662-69359-9_67

Entropic Selection of Biomolecular Chirality: A Geometric Origin for the Handedness of Life
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/394102848_Entropic_Selection_of_Biomolecular_Chirality_A_Geometric_Origin_for_the_Handedness_of_Life

Carbon Delivery to Terrestrial Planets and Connections to Lava World Exoplanets
https://utoronto.scholaris.ca/items/91f11350-b557-46de-8a16-07e525e3ec88

A closer look at new interstellar visitor
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S026240792501317X

Improved H2–He and H2-H2 Collision-Induced Absorption Models and Application to Outer-Planet Atmospheres
https://www.sciencedirect.com/search?qs=exoplanet&sortBy=date

Photometric Mapping of Carbonaceous/Siliceous Dust and Water Ice in the ISM with JWST: Applications to the Dense Sightlines
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/adf103

Discovery of Hα Emission from a Protoplanet Candidate Around the Young Star 2MASS J16120668-3010270 with MagAO-X
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11155

August 15, 2025 updates

IRMA: New Era for Interstellar Travel
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2025-97839

Interstellar Objects in a Galactic Context
https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:7695084f-1ba2-4942-9f02-71948d5b3c1a

Experimental Models on the Prebiotic Formation of Biopolymer Building Blocks
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1177/15311074251365950

On the Dynamics of Linear Plug Nozzle Flows Under Various Operating Conditions
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.J064767

Planets Everywhere and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
https://academic.oup.com/book/45449/chapter-abstract/395556250?redirectedFrom=fulltext

KMT-2024-BLG-0404L: A triple microlensing system consisting of a star, a brown dwarf, and a planet
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/08/aa52760-24/aa52760-24.html

Using Doppler Imaging to model stellar activity and search for planets around Sun-like stars
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/staf1337/8234430

Accelerating exoplanet climate modelling: A machine learning approach to complement 3D GCM grid simulations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10827

Additional JWST/NIRSpec Transits of the Rocky M Dwarf Exoplanet GJ 1132 b Reveal a Featureless Spectrum
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10579

Strong NUV Refractory Absorption and Dissociated Water in the Hubble Transmission Spectrum of the Ultra Hot Jupiter KELT-20 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10092

PLATOSpec’s first results: planets WASP-35b and TOI-622b are on aligned orbits, and K2-237b is on a polar orbit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10145

Cosmic cascades: How disk substructure regulates the flow of water to inner planetary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10402

Inside-Out Planet Formation. VIII. Onset of Planet Formation and the Transition Disk Phase
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10755

The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO): VIII. The impact of external photoevaporation on disk masses and radii in Upper Scorpius
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10743

August 14, 2025 updates

Communicating astrobiology and the search for life elsewhere: Speculations and promises of a developing scientific field in newspapers, press releases and papers
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0328766

Cold Jupiters and small planets: Friends, foes, or indifferent? – A search for correlations with the largest exoplanet samples
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/08/aa52523-24/aa52523-24.html

The HR 8799 debris disk: Shaped by planetary migration and a possible fifth outermost planet
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/08/aa54802-25/aa54802-25.html

Searching for Helium Escape and a Low-density Atmosphere Around the 120 Myr Old Sub-Neptune HIP94235b Using CRIRES+
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ade1da

Radiative Flux from a High-resolution Atmospheric Dynamics Simulation of a Hot Jupiter for JWST and Ariel
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adef02

The Loeb Scale: Astronomical Classification of Interstellar Objects
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09167

Studying Exoplanets in the Radio from the Moon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09222

Machine Learning for Exoplanet Detection: A Comparative Analysis Using Kepler Data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09689

Primordial planet spin driven by boundary layer effects in a decretion disc
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09273

The watery atmosphere of HD~209458~b revealed by joint K- and L-band high-resolution spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09448

Linking planet formation to exoplanet characteristics: C/O as a diagnostic of planet formation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09587

The SPACE Program. I. The featureless spectrum of HD 86226 c challenges sub-Neptune atmosphere trends
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13439