Interstellar Updates

 

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November 21, 2025 updates

Discriminating abiotic and biotic organics in meteorite and terrestrial samples using machine learning on mass spectrometry data
https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/4/11/pgaf334/8323799

A Flux-Based Estimate of the Interstellar Object Contribution to the Galactic Baryon Budget
https://zenodo.org/records/17668687

Planetary dynamos driven by semi-convection in stratified layers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18521

SPORES-HWO. II. Companion Mass Limits and Updated Planet Properties for 120 Future Exoplanet Imaging Targets from 35 yr of Precise Doppler Monitoring
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae0b62

Biophysics of Life: Origin and Evolution
https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/monograph/9780443363689/biophysics-of-life

Natural Comet or Technological Artefact? A Bayesian Evaluation of 3I/ATLAS Incorporating the Loeb Scale.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/397795856_Natural_Comet_or_Technological_Artefact_A_Bayesian_Evaluation_of_3IATLAS_Incorporating_the_Loeb_Scale

Dynamical simulation of the Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS
https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2511.16247

Efficiency of Hydrodynamic Atmospheric Escape in Hot Jupiters and Super Earths
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.15787

Methane on the temperate exo-Saturn TOI-199b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.15835

Analytical Solutions for Planet-Scattering Small Bodies
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.16056

Coupled atmospHere Interior modeL Intercomparison (CHILI) Protocol Version 1.0: A CUISINES Intercomparison Project of Magma Ocean Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.16142

Grain growth in protoplanetary disks in the Upper Scorpius revealed by millimeter-wave spectral indices
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.16405

A homogeneous TTV investigation of all TESS systems with a confirmed single transiting planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.16504

Disc fragmentation. I. Ejection of Jupiter-mass Free Floating Planets from growing binary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.16508

Searching for close-in planets around TWA 7 with SPIRou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.16609

Excitation of Inertial Modes in 3D Simulations of Rotating Convection in Planets and Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.16630

Dust Recycling and Icy Volatile Enhancement (DRIVE): A Novel Method of Volatile Enrichment in Cold Giant Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.07590

November 20, 2025 updates

Beyond the habitable zone: Exoplanet atmospheres are next clue to finding life on planets orbiting distant stars
https://phys.org/news/2025-11-habitable-zone-exoplanet-atmospheres-clue.html

Evidence of a gap in the envelope mass fraction of sub-Saturns
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/11/aa56560-25/aa56560-25.html

Resolving the flat-spectrum conundrum: clumpy aerosol distributions in sub-Neptune atmospheres
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/staf2066/8329173

Kepler-1624b Has No Significant Transit Timing Variations
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae1464

Separating Flare and Secondary Atmospheric Signals with RADYN Modeling of Near-infrared JWST Transmission Spectroscopy Observations of TRAPPIST-1
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae1960

N2-broadening coefficients and their temperature exponents for ethylene lines: A semi-empirical approach for (exo)planetary studies
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022407325004200

Prebiotic Gels as the Cradle of Life
https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/syst.202500038

Exoplanet Detection Techniques: From Classical Methods to Modern Machine Learning Approaches
https://www.ewadirect.com/proceedings/tns/article/view/29784

Stellar Obliquities of Young Systems, Atmospheres Undergoing Contraction and Escape (SOYSAUCE): a likely aligned orbit for the 3 Myr planet TIDYE-1 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.14838

Refractive indices of photochemical haze analogs for Solar System and exoplanet applications : a cross-laboratory comparative study between the PAMPRE and COSmIC experimental set-ups
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.15310

A JWST Transit of a Jupiter Analog: II. A Search for Exomoons
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.15317

Efficient Exoplanet Imaging Simulations of the Habitable Worlds Observatory
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.15511

November 19, 2025 updates

Independent Cross-Observatory Analysis of the 3I/ATLAS Perihelion Event (29–31 October 2025)
https://zenodo.org/records/17627290

Discovery of the Tidal Deformation of WASP-103b at 3 σ with CHEOPS: Nature and Physics of Tidal Deformation in Hot Jupiters and Impact of Orbital Eccentricity on Deformation
https://zenodo.org/records/17642965

EXOHOST conference Abstract book
https://zenodo.org/records/17607056

Fractal Aggregate Aerosols in the Virga Cloud Code. I. Model Description and Application to a Benchmark Cloudy Exoplanet
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae0583

Hydrothermal Circulation and Seawater Chemistry: Links and Feedbacks
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781394229185

3I/ATLAS: Interstellar Comet or Alien Ship?
https://zenodo.org/records/17535436

Theoretical foundations of building interstellar ships Beginner’s Guide Preliminary version
https://preprints.ru/article/2172

The atmospheric composition of TOI-270 d
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.13830

TOI-333b: A Neptune Desert planet around a F7V star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.13832

Shaping the Mantle: The Role of the Superheated Core After Giant Impacts
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.14041

The KPF SURFS-UP Survey I: Transmission Spectroscopy of WASP-76 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.14175

A search for transit timing variations in the transiting hot Jupiter systems HIP 65, NGTS-6, NGTS-10 and WASP-173
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.14634

Modelling the Milky Way’s exoplanet population based on cosmological galaxy simulations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.14704

Online learning of subgrid-scale models for quasi-geostrophic turbulence in planetary interiors
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.14581

November 18, 2025 updates

NASA to Share Comet 3I/ATLAS Images From Spacecraft, Telescopes
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-to-share-comet-3i-atlas-images-from-spacecraft-telescopes/

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, an exceptional object: online observation – 19 Nov. 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krU8gN-J9gY

Exoplanet Atmospheres and Habitability Inspired Optimization Algorithm
https://zenodo.org/records/17620575

Thirty years of new worlds
https://www.nature.com/natastron/volumes/9/issues/11

Proto-planetary disk composition-dependent element volatility in the context of rocky planet formation
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/11/aa56011-25/aa56011-25.html

A decade of transit photometry for K2-19: Revised system architecture
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/11/aa56436-25/aa56436-25.html

An Earthlike Density for the Temperate Earth-sized Planet GJ 12 b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae0f98

Early Evidence for Polar Orbits of Sub-Saturns around Hot Stars
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae18c7

Rock vapour is opaque: implications for dynamics and observations of lava planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.11800

Shaping the Mantle: The Role of Superheated Cores After Giant Impacts
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.13436

The bulk metal content of WASP-80 b from joint interior-atmosphere retrievals: Breaking degeneracies and exploring biases with panchromatic spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.13483

Stellar Flares in the TESS Light Curves of Planet-hosting M dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.13716

On Bayesian inference considerations and other issues concerning Drake’s equation of Astrosociobiology
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.11582

3D Modeling of Moist Convective Inhibition in Idealized Sub-Neptune Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.18217

November 17, 2025 Updates

Space transportation without mass drop-off
https://www.academia.edu/144603939/Space_transportation_without_mass_drop_off_AAJAJ_2025_

Traversable wormholes in f (R, T ) gravity with exponential metric: energy conditions and matter viability
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1402-4896/ae1f52/meta

Comprehensive Analysis of Theoretical Faster-Than-Light Propulsion Technologies: A Multi-Modal Approach to Superluminal Travel
https://www.academia.edu/136851980/Comprehensive_Analysis_of_Theoretical_Faster_Than_Light_Propulsion_Technologies_A_Multi_Modal_Approach_to_Superluminal_Travel

A Silent Universe and the Future of AGI: A Message to Future Intelligence on Why Co-Evolution Is the Only Rational Path
https://jeet.ieet.org/index.php/home/article/view/187

Exploring Fermi’s Paradox using an intragalactic colonization model
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576525007593

Planets Across Space and Time (PAST). VIII. Kinematic Characterization and Identification of Radial Velocity Variables for the LAMOST–Gaia–TESS Stars
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/ae0d85

An Analytical Model for the Eccentricity Cascade: Hot Jupiter Formation via S-type Instability
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10726

TESS Investigation — Demographics of Young Exoplanets (TI-DYE) IV: a Jovian radius planet orbiting a 34 Myr Sun-like star in the Vela association
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10734

Indirect forces in disc-planet interaction
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10745

The impact of supermassive black holes on exoplanet habitability: I. Spanning the natural mass range
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10794

What’s Inside Matters: The Effect of Oxygen Fugacity and Initial Volatile Abundance on the Atmospheres of the TRAPPIST-1 Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10801

Unveiling the Chemical Complexity and C/O Ratio of the HD 163296 Protoplanetary Disk: Constraints from Multi-line ALMA Observations of Organics, Nitriles, Sulfur-bearing, and Deuterated Molecules
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10882

Evidence for the Keplerian orbit of a close companion around a giant star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.11247

Close-in compact super-Earth systems emerging from resonant chains: slow destabilization by unseen remnants of formation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.11329

Shadow-Induced Warps in Protoplanetary disks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.11358

A 34.6-day transiting sub-Neptune in the TOI-1422 planetary system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.11492

Probing the era of giant collisions: millimeter observations of the HD 166191 system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.11535

3I/ATLAS as an Interplanetary Cosmobiont: A Hypothesis on Intelligent Plasma Organisms in Interstellar Motion
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/397626979_3IATLAS_as_an_Interplanetary_Cosmobiont_A_Hypothesis_on_Intelligent_Plasma_Organisms_in_Interstellar_Motion