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.

You can now search our database of interstellar updates and find items of interest to you.

June 24, 2026 Updates

The Persistent Missing Mass Problem in Planet Formation
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae796f

Environmental interactions in Class II systems and their impact on the disk-planet architecture
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.21533

Astrobiology in the Time of Artificial Intelligence
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.23854

An Agnostic Machine Learning Model of Photosynthetic Habitability
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.24458

Photochemical Production of CS2 in Temperate-to-Warm Gas Giant Exoplanet Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.23820

Upper Limits on Planet-induced Gigahertz Radio Emission from Inactive M Dwarfs
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae6b80

Ultra-Precise Astrometric Search for Exoplanets with SKA-VLBI
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.24862

Effects of Super-rotating Jets on Phase-Resolved Transmission Spectra at High Spectral Resolution
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.23910

Hydrogen airglow from an escaping ultrahot Jupiter atmosphere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.23899

June 19, 2026 Updates

TOI-2147 b and TOI-6019 b: Two eccentric warm Jupiters detected and characterized with TESS and MaHPS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.20224

Geophysical and atmospheric implications of fO2-dependent melting on rocky exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.20249

Atmospheric diversity of sub-Neptunes from formation with rock, water, and soot
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.20464

Modeling Doppler Shifts in Radial-Velocity Data with Deep Learning toward Earth-mass Exoplanet Detection
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.18464

Dust colour, phase bahaviour, and Monte Carlo modelling of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS from 4 au pre- to 4 au post-perihelion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.18751

ThousandWorlds: A benchmark for climate emulation of potentially habitable exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.18338

Strong and variable stratospheric CO emission from lava-planet 55 Cnc e observed with NIRCam/JWST
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11866

June 18, 2026 Updates

Space as a spectroscopic laboratory: High-resolution spectroscopy of the [13C II] hyperfine structure with SOFIA/upGREAT
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/06/aa59546-26/aa59546-26.html

Mapping X-ray conditions in the habitable zones of exoplanet host stars with SRG/eROSITA
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/06/aa59220-26/aa59220-26.html

Interstellar X-Ray Absorption and Scattering
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae6b8a

JWST-TST High Contrast: First Direct Spectroscopy of GJ 504 b reveals Clouds and Possible Metal Enrichment
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.19228

Three dimensional temporal evolution of photochemical haze in exoplanet atmospheres I. Description and test application to HD 189733b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.19056

Joint Rossiter-McLaughlin Revolutions analysis of the multi-planetary system GJ 9827
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/06/aa57501-25/aa57501-25.html

Unraveling the Mystery of the Peculiar and Young Hot Jupiter CoRoT-2b II: Phase Resolved Emission Spectroscopy with VLT/CRIRES+ and Gemini-S/IGRINS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.17304