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 26, 2026 Updates

Ammonium Salt Formation and Abundance in Protoplanetary Disks
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae8f35

Magnesium silicate condensation in sub-Neptune envelopes: the fundamental link between chemistry, structure, and observables
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.24873

JWST Transmission Spectroscopy of TOI-3235 b: Challenges in Constraining Giant Planet Atmospheres around M Dwarfs amid Stellar Contamination
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae9545

Quantitative Links between Formation and Atmospheric Composition for Giant Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.23682

On-sky demonstration of self-learning predictive control with MagAO-X
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.24339

NEXT: The Netherlands EXoplanet Testbed I. Goals and opto-mechanical design
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.24442

Cassiopee: Defining the next-generation deformable mirror and high-speed SWIR camera for adaptive optics applications
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.24526

August 20, 2026 Updates

From bioinspired wings to hydrogen propulsion: a mechanical engineering perspective on next-generation UAVs
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2631-8695/ae94ff

Asgard/NOTT: Status of laboratory nulling performance
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.18951

The Inbound Gas and Dust Evolution of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS from Optical Spectroscopy and Multi-band Photometry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.18371

Wet Removal and Cloud Enhancement: The Microphysics of Cloud-Haze Interactions on Sub-Neptunes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.19100

A Search for helium in the atmospheres of three sub-Neptunes and a super-Earth around M-dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.19030

Stellar Abundances as Probes of Rocky Exoplanet Interiors: The Mantle Composition and Mineralogy of GJ 486b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.18457

August 19, 2026 Updates

Astrobiology and the Transformation of Scientific Epistemology
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.17728

Discovery of an Eccentric Hot Super-Jupiter Leaving the Transiting Geometry of the Early-A-type star TOI-1355
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.17387

HD 715 b, a Warm Jupiter Orbiting a Massive Subgiant Discovered from a Single TESS Transit
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae9095

A Catalog of Homogeneously Derived Stellar Parameters for Spectroscopic Survey Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.17734

The Roman Coronagraph Community Participation Program: data reduction pipeline astrometric calibration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.17985

Turbulence Can Persist in the Inner Regions of Weakly Ionized Planet-forming Disks
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae8fc9

Direct Retrieval of Protoplanetary Disk Dust Properties Using Auto-differentiable Gaussian Processes and Their Application to the HD 169142 Disk
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae89ad