Interstellar Updates

Putting holes in a sail to reach the stars
https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/online/44239/Putting-holes-in-a-sail-to-reach-the-stars

Ground to Dust: Collisional Cascades and the Fate of Kardashev II Megaswarms
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.21151

Exploring the atmosphere of GJ 1132 b with CRIRES+
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/05/aa53163-24/aa53163-24.html

Signs of alien life on exoplanet K2-18b may actually be nothing at all
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0262407925006888

Unidentified aerospace-undersea phenomena (UAP) status and outlook
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0376042125000211

Four Planets Found through Microlensing Events Involving Faint Source Stars
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/adc5e7

AI scientist ‘team’ joins the search for extraterrestrial life
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01364-w

Can planet-planet binaries survive in star-forming regions?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.00762

Characterizing the Radiative-Convective Structure of Dense Rocky Planet Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.00775

HD 35843: A Sun-like star hosting a long period sub-Neptune and inner super-Earth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.00898

Instrumentation prospects for rocky exoplanet atmospheres studies with high resolution spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.01102

Bridging the Atmospheric Circulations of Hot and Warm Giant Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.01397

Dust density enhancements and the direct formation of planetary cores in gravitationally unstable discs
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/staf714/8123629

HST Transmission Spectra of the Hot Neptune HD 219666 b: Detection of Water and the Challenge of Constraining Both Water and Methane
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/adc684

Measurement of Methane Line Broadening in Hot Hydrogen/Helium Atmospheres at λ = 1.60–1.63 μm for Substellar Object Spectroscopy
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adc455

The Effects of Kinematic Magnetohydrodynamics on the Atmospheric Circulation of Eccentric Hot Jupiters
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adc56c

Quantified Estimation of Molecular Detections across Different Classes of Neptunian Atmospheres Using Cross-correlation Spectroscopy: Prospects for Future Extremely Large Telescopes with High-resolution Spectrographs
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/adbf05

Quantifying the Fermi paradox via passive SETI: a general framework
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.00062

Quantum-inspired exoplanet detection in the presence of experimental imperfections
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.00064

Can Close-In Exoplanets form by Pebble Accretion?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.00090

Reconstructing the Free-floating Planet Mass Function with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.00092

Spying and the Fermi Paradox
https://uapbridge.org/spying-and-the-fermi-paradox/

Thermal Emission and Confirmation of the Frigid White Dwarf Exoplanet WD 1856+534 b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/adc9ad

JAvaScript Multimodal INformation Explorer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.21393

The Challenges of Detecting Gases in Exoplanet Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.21788

Polka-dotted Stars: a Hierarchical Model for Mapping Stellar Surfaces Using Occultation Light Curves and the Case of TOI-3884
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.21852

Transit Timing and Duration Variations for the Discovery and Characterization of Exoplanets in the TESS era
https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.09849

Digital Discovery of Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors
https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.15.021012

Analysis of Exoplanet Habitability: Investigating Key Parameters and Environmental Influences
https://zenodo.org/records/15309145

Life by Chemical Evolution?
https://link.springer.com/book/9783662707517

Irradiated Atmospheres. II. Interplay between Scattering and Vertical-mixing-induced Energy Transport
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adc56b

Precise Near-infrared Occultation of WASP-19b with FourStar on Magellan
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/add154

Escaping Helium and a Highly Muted Spectrum Suggest a Metal-Enriched Atmosphere on Sub-Neptune GJ3090b from JWST Transit Spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.20428

Atmospheric C/O Ratios of Sub-Neptunes with Magma Oceans: Homemade rather than Inherited
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.20450

Planets Across Space and Time (PAST). VI. Age Dependence of the Occurrence and Architecture of Ultra-Short-Period Planet Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.20986

Two neighbours to the ultra-short-period Earth-sized planet K2-157 b in the warm Neptunian savanna
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.20999

Numerical simulations of the interaction between the stellar magnetic field and a planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09390

Perpetual Push Against Spacetime [Locomotive Constraints of Relativistic Space Travel]
https://www.academia.edu/128047008/Perpetual_Push_Against_Spacetime_Locomotive_Constraints_of_Relativistic_Space_Travel_

Detection of Exoplanets in Transit Light Curves with Conditional Flow Matching and XGBoost
https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/14/9/1738

The cosmochemistry of planetary systems
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41570-025-00711-9

Age dependence of the occurrence and architecture of ultra-short-period planet systems
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02539-1

Near-circular orbits for planets with Earth-like sizes and instellations around M and K dwarf stars
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02532-8

An astronomer explains the extraordinary evidence scientists need to claim discoveries like extraterrestrial life
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-astronomer-extraordinary-evidence-scientists-discoveries.html

In-depth characterization of the Kepler-10 three-planet system with HARPS-N radial velocities and Kepler transit timing variations
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/04/aa53026-24/aa53026-24.html

Closeby Habitable Exoplanet Survey (CHES). III. Retrieval of Planetary Masses in Binaries Using the N-body Model with Radial Velocity and Astrometry Synergy
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adc444

Biases from Missing a Small Planet in High Multiplicity Systems
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/adcba1

Peeking under the clouds: Is exoplanet imaging with the solar gravitational lens feasible?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.18630

Lightning activity on a tidally locked terrestrial exoplanet in storm-resolving simulations for a range of surface pressures
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.19883

A Search for Exoplanet Candidates in TESS 2-min Light Curves using Joint Bayesian Detection
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.18706

On the similarities between the Trojan Wave Packets as a Single Electron Life and the Planet in the habitable zone
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/391119528_On_the_similarities_between_the_Trojan_Wave_Packets_as_a_Single_Electron_Life_and_the_Planet_in_the_habitable_zone

A Next-Generation Exoplanet Atmospheric Retrieval Framework for Transmission Spectroscopy (NEXOTRANS): Comparative Characterization for WASP-39 b Using JWST NIRISS, NIRSpec PRISM, and MIRI Observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.18815

Thermodynamic constraints on the citric acid cycle and related reactions in ocean world interiors
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.19369

The Cosmic Shoreline Revisited: A Metric for Atmospheric Retention Informed by Hydrodynamic Escape
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.19872