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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April 11, 2025 updates

Revealing a Main-sequence Star that Consumed a Planet with JWST
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adb429

Energy-ordered resource stratification as an agnostic signature of life
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-58206-6

Keplerian motion of a compact source orbiting the inner disk of PDS 70: A third protoplanet in a resonance with b and c?
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/staf586/8110708

Hα Variability of AB Aur b with the Hubble Space Telescope: Probing the Nature of a Protoplanet Candidate with Accretion Light Echoes
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/adb6a1

The Minimum Mass of Planets, Dwarf Planets, and Planetary-scale Satellites
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.07161

A new look into the atmospheric composition of WASP-39 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.07823

April 10, 2025 updates

Disc-planet misalignment from an unstable triple system: IRAS04125
https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnrasl/slaf032/8109609

Planet-comet interaction as another mechanism for formation of super-puff exoplanets
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/staf581/8109630

Floaters on the Surfaces of Red Dwarfs
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/adc9af

JWST COMPASS: NIRSpec/G395H Transmission Observations of TOI-776 c, a 2 R⊕ M Dwarf Planet
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/adb975

The JWST Early Release Science Program for Direct Observations of Exoplanetary Systems. III. Aperture Masking Interferometric Observations of the Star HIP 65426 at 3.8 μm
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/adaeb7

The likelihood of not detecting cavity-carving companions in transition discs — A statistical approach
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.06337

Photobombing for the Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE). A new criterion for target confusion and application to a MIR rotating nulling interferometer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.06776

TOI-6478 b: a cold under-dense Neptune transiting a fully convective M dwarf from the thick disc
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.06848

Combining high-contrast imaging with high-resolution spectroscopy: Actual on-sky MIRI/MRS results compared to expectations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.06890

Characterizing planetary material accreted by cool helium atmosphere white dwarfs using an exponentially decaying disc model
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.05345

April 09, 2025 updates

Are dark matter and dark energy omnipresent?
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6382/adbed1

What if we Find Nothing? Bayesian Analysis of the Statistical Information of Null Results in Future Exoplanet Habitability and Biosignature Surveys
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/adb96d

TESS and HARPS-N unveil two planets transiting TOI-1453 – A super-Earth and one of the lowest mass sub-Neptunes
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/04/aa52969-24/aa52969-24.html

Earth-like planet predictor: A machine learning approach
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/04/aa52434-24/aa52434-24.html

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs – Occurrence rates of Earth-like planets around very low-mass stars
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/04/aa53381-24/aa53381-24.html

Probing Two-dimensional Asymmetries of an Exoplanet Atmosphere from Chromatic Transit Variation
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/adbe65

Future Space-Time: A Gauge Field Theory Framework for Consciousness Algebra, Earthly Civilization, and Interstellar Civilization
https://osf.io/preprints/osf/95sza_v1

Oligarchic growth of protoplanets in planetesimal rings
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.05667

Strong Evidence That Abiogenesis Is a Rapid Process on Earth Analogs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.05993

April 08, 2025 Updates

Radial variations in nitrogen, carbon, and hydrogen fractionation in the PDS 70 planet-hosting disk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.03833

Formation of Giant Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.04090

Has DESI detected exponential quintessence?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.04226

Bioverse: Potentially Observable Exoplanet Biosignature Patterns Under the UV Threshold Hypothesis for the Origin of Life
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.04261

How much has DESI dark energy evolved since DR1?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.04417

The enigmatic magnetic field of the planet hosting Herbig Ae/Be star HD169142
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.04439

A New Window on Dynamical Dark Energy: Combining DESI-DR2 BAO with future Gravitational Wave Observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.04646

Formation of Near-surface Atmospheric Inversion and Surface Inversion in Hothouse Climates
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.05233

What if we Find Nothing? Bayesian Analysis of the Statistical Information of Null Results in Future Exoplanet Habitability and Biosignature Surveys
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/adb96d

Helium escape signatures are generally strongest during younger ages but this age dependence is lost in the diversity of observed exoplanets
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/staf566/8107903

April 07, 2025 updates

Waves Beyond Probability: A Unified Resonance Framework for Full-Spectrum Dynamics and Biological Space Travel
https://philarchive.org/archive/BOSWBP

Evolutionary History of the Atmosphere of the Young Mini-Neptune HD 207496b
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S0038094624601579

The Laplace Surface of a Circumplanetary Disc
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/staf526/8106603

Low 4.5 μm Dayside Emission Disfavors a Dark Bare-rock Scenario for the Hot Super-Earth TOI-431 b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/adbe75

Dust Coagulation Assisted by Streaming Instability in Protoplanetary Disks
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adbbca

Eclipse Mapping with MIRI: 2D Map of HD 189733b from 8 μm JWST MIRI LRS Observations
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/adc096

Hidden Transits: TOI-2285 b is a Warmer Sub-Neptune Likely with a Super-Earth Companion
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/adc7fb

Allocating time on scientific platforms in outer space: Evidence from James Webb Space Telescope Cycle 1-3 general observer programs
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004873332500068X

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Occurrence rates of Earth-like planets around very low-mass stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.03364

The AI Cosmologist I: An Agentic System for Automated Data Analysis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.03424

Characterizing planetary systems with SPIRou: Detection of a sub-Neptune in a 6 day period orbit around the M dwarf Gl 410
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.03572