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 10, 2026 Updates

HabSim: Modeling Disruptions, Propagation, Detection and Repair in Deep Space Habitats
https://www.mdpi.com/2673-3951/7/3/109

Planetary Aerobiomes in Dust- and Aerosol-Dominated Extraterrestrial Environments
https://www.mdpi.com/2673-8007/6/6/66

Some Thoughts on the Future of Technosignature Searches: Constraining the Fermi Paradox
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.00463

The Ohio SETI Program – The Last Decades
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11102

Towards Instrument-Agnostic Exoplanet Candidate Prioritization
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.07769

Exploring Exoplanets with Interferometry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.10108

Exploring the Orbital Stability of Large, Lightweight Mirrors around Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.10140

Quantifying isochrone-based age uncertainties for rapidly rotating A-type stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.09485

June 09 2026 updates

Mapping Interstellar Ice Inventory toward Class 0 Protostars in Star-forming Region Orion A with JWST Data
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.09776

Star Formation Drives Production of Low Energy Cosmic Rays
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.09651

Modelling Galactic neutrino emission: contributions from massive star clusters and interstellar cosmic rays
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.09604

Star-planet magnetic interactions in photoevaporating exoplanets: enhanced power due to atmospheric escape
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stag1081

June 5, 2026 Updates

Ultraviolet Radiation Effects on the Optical Properties of Water-Dominated Exoplanet Hazes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.06691

Where Not to Look: A Parametric Avoidance Model for SETI Target Selection
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.06692

The mass of TOI-1883 b: A low density super-Neptune in the ridge regime transiting an early-M dwarf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.06868

Tidal Disruption of Blanets in Kerr Spacetime
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.06884

MOSES — The MONET Star and Exoplanet Spectrograph
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.06898

A New Scaling Law for Non-Dipolar Magnetic Fields in Rapidly Rotating Stars and Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.07484

Detection of a four-carbon sugar in interstellar space
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.03313

Exploring TRAPPIST-1 Climate States with an Energy Balance Model
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.06964

Contribution of interstellar objects to local dark matter density
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.04801

June 04, 2026 Updates

HETDEX opens massive Cosmic Noon dataset to scientists, novices and AI
https://phys.org/news/2026-06-hetdex-massive-cosmic-noon-dataset.html

The Catastrophic Consequences of Agnosticism for Life Searches and a Possible Workaround
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.02969

First Interstellar Detection of Methyl Carbamate: A New Observational Anchor for Glycine Chemistry
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae69da

Impact of Climate States and Seasons on Future Exo-Earth Observations
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae5e46

Characterizing Transiting Exoplanet Atmospheres in the 2030s with the Hubble Space Telescope
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.04144

A Preliminary Exploration on the Effects of Baseline Length for the LIFE Space Mission
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ae6c5b

Simulation and analysis of the effect of detector vibration on the radial velocity inversion of a coherent-dispersive spectrometer
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6501/ae6e8c

Preparing for the Early eVolution Explorer: Detecting the Primordial, Transiting Exoplanet Population
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.04283

HAT-P-70b through the Eyes of MAROON-X: Constraining Elemental Abundances of Metals and Insights on Atmosphere Dynamics
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae69d3

A Panchromatic JWST Spectrum of a Giant Starspot on the Fully Convective M Dwarf TOI-3884
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae6fb6

Upper limits on exosatellites around β Pictoris b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.04685

Prospects for Reconstructing the Free-floating Planet Mass Function at the Population Level with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae6e36

Development of a long working distance coupling and ultrafast photoelectric triggering system for microchip laser in coaxial TOF mass spectrometry
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2631-8695/ae7025

All-Sky Ultra-Narrowband Spectral Imaging with the OVRO-LWA: Technosignature Constraints and Axion-Like Particle Prospects
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.04304

Icy Volatile Enhancements in Evolving Protoplanetary Disks
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae60fe