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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September 12, 2025 updates

How common are biological ETIs in the Galaxy?
https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPSC-DPS2025/EPSC-DPS2025-1512.html

3I/ATLAS: In Search of the Witnesses to Its Voyage
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07678

Precovery Observations of 3I/ATLAS from TESS Suggest Possible Distant Activity
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/adfd4d

Fine-tuning the complex organic molecule formation: Sulfur and CO ice as regulators of surface chemistry
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/09/aa54678-25/aa54678-25.html

Sulfur oxides tracing streamers and shocks at low-mass protostellar disk–envelope interfaces
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/09/aa54186-25/aa54186-25.html

How the chemical composition of solids influences the formation of planetesimals
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/09/aa55591-25/aa55591-25.html

The New Generation Planetary Population Synthesis (NGPPS) VII. Statistical comparison with the HARPS/Coralie survey
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/09/aa52485-24/aa52485-24.html

The New Generation Planetary Population Synthesis (NGPPS) VIII. Impact of host star metallicity on planet occurrence rates, orbital periods, eccentricities, and radius valley morphology
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/09/aa55380-25/aa55380-25.html

Planets Around Solar Twins/Analogs (PASTA) II. Chemical abundances, systematic offsets, and clues as to planet formation
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/09/aa56272-25/aa56272-25.html

JWST COMPASS: A NIRSpec G395H Transmission Spectrum of the Super-Earth GJ 357 b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/adee92

First Results from WINERED: Detection of Emission Lines from Neutral Iron and a Combined Set of Trace Species on the Dayside of WASP-189 b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/adfb61

Aetheras: Characterizing exoplanetary atmospheric escape with NIR and UV spectroscopy
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576525005491

Collision induced absorption in HITRAN2024: Enhanced and improved data for atmospheric and planetary studies
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022407325002936

Dynamical and Electromagnetic Analysis of 3I/ATLAS
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/395404990_Dynamical_and_Electromagnetic_Analysis_of_3IATLAS

Chemical and Formation Analysis of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS: Evidence for AGB Star Origin
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/395405143_Chemical_and_Formation_Analysis_of_Interstellar_Comet_3IATLAS_Evidence_for_AGB_Star_Origin

Validating the Tanfarid Quantum Thermodynamic Universe (TQTU) with Ground-Based Mega Observatories: ELT, TMT, and GMT -An Updated Data-Driven Analysis and Simulation
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/395385496_Validating_the_Tanfarid_Quantum_Thermodynamic_Universe_TQTU_with_Ground-Based_Mega_Observatories_ELT_TMT_and_GMT_-An_Updated_Data-Driven_Analysis_and_Simulation

Lyman-Alpha Emission from K and M Dwarfs: Intrinsic Profiles, Variability, and Flux in the Habitable Zone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09029

Dust growth and planet formation by disc fragmentation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09305

Dual-Backend Multibeam Position Switching Targeted SETI Observations toward Nearby Active Planet-Hosting Systems with FAST
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09654

Detecting Land with Reflected Light Spectroscopy to Rule Out Waterworld O2 Biosignature False Positives
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21790

September 11, 2025 updates

The Possible, the Impossible, and the Undecidable in Interstellar Propulsion
https://ai.vixra.org/abs/2508.0077

Initial Conditions for Tidal Synchronisation of a Planet by Its Moon
https://www.mdpi.com/2218-1997/11/9/309

Interstellar objects function as seeds for planet formation predominantly around high-mass stars
https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPSC-DPS2025/EPSC-DPS2025-1927.html

The importance of the dynamical corotation torque for the migration of low-mass planets – 1D analytical prescriptions verified by 2D hydrodynamical simulations
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/09/aa54620-25/aa54620-25.html

Hot Rocks Survey – III. A deep eclipse for LHS 1140c and a new Gaussian process method to account for correlated noise in individual pixels
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/09/aa54198-25/aa54198-25.html

The Hot-Neptune Initiative (HONEI) – I. Two hot sub-Neptunes on a close-in eccentric orbit (TOI-5800 b) and a farther-out circular orbit (TOI-5817 b)
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/09/aa55523-25/aa55523-25.html

Prediscovery Activity of New Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS: A Dynamically-Old Comet?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08792

spherical: A Comprehensive Database and Automated Pipeline for VLT/SPHERE High-Contrast Imaging
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08044

High-Pass Filtering and Gaussian Process Regularization: Stellar Activity Characterization Techniques Applied to the 55 Cancri Planetary System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08076

Searching for GEMS: The Occurrence of Giant Planets orbiting M-dwarfs within 100 pc ​
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08773

September 10, 2025 updates

New Results: New Study Narrows the Hunt for the Source of the Mysterious 1977 “Wow! Signal”
https://phl.upr.edu/wow

JWST Detection of Hydrocarbon Ices and Methane Gas on Makemake
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06772

Planets Around Solar Twins/Analogs (PASTA) – II. Chemical abundances, systematic offsets, and clues as to planet formation
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/09/aa56272-25/aa56272-25.html

Unveiling the Atmosphere of HR 7672 B from the Near-infrared High-resolution Spectrum Using REACH/Subaru
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/adf730

The Impact of Organic Hazes and Graphite on the Observation of CO2-rich Sub-Neptune Atmospheres
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/adfa87

Bioverse: Assessing the Ability of Direct Imaging Surveys to Empirically Constrain the Habitable Zone via Trends in Albedo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07297

Reassessment of Kepler’s habitable zone Earth-like exoplanets with data-driven null-signal templates
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07409

Simulating RISTRETTO: Proxima b detectability in reflected light
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07644

The Physics of Cometary Anti-tails as Observed in 3I/ATLAS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07771

The Role of Magnetospheric Rebound in Breaking Resonant Chains of Super-Earths and Mini-Neptunes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07866

Particle dynamics in TOI-178 planetary system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07930

The JADE code. II. Modeling the coupled orbital and atmospheric evolution of GJ 436 b to constrain its migration and companion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07938

Why M-dwarf flares have limited impact on the atmospheric evaporation of sub-Neptunes and Earth-sized planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08014

On the Detection of Exorings in Reflected Light with JWST NIRCam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07118

September 09, 2025 updates

Information Coding and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
https://www.intechopen.com/online-first/1197748

The Recursive Panopticon Hypothesis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02625

Nano-Spaceships
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/395124589_Nano-Spaceships

Quantum Stellar Batteries (QSBs): A TheoreticalFramework for Stellar-Scale
https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202508.2028/v1

1st known interstellar visitor ‘Oumuamua is an ‘exo-Pluto’ — a completely new class of object, scientists say
https://www.space.com/astronomy/dwarf-planets/1st-known-interstellar-visitor-oumuamua-is-an-exo-pluto-a-completely-new-class-of-object-scientists-say

JWST-TST DREAMS: NIRSpec/PRISM Transmission Spectroscopy of the Habitable Zone Planet TRAPPIST-1 e
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/adf42e

JWST-TST DREAMS: Secondary Atmosphere Constraints for the Habitable Zone Planet TRAPPIST-1 e
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/adf62e

A transformer-based generative model for planetary systems
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/09/aa52297-24/aa52297-24.html

Multiband, Multiepoch Photometry of the Spot-crossing System TOI-3884: Refined System Geometry and Spot Properties
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ade2df

Formation of Organic Hazes in CO2-rich Sub-Neptune Atmospheres within the Graphite Stability Regime
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adfa0a

Extremely Tenuous, Dusty Terrestrial Atmospheres Remain Stable against Global Collapse: An Argument for Arid Planet Habitability in the Trappist-1 System
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adf42f

Desert Cyanobacteria under Non-Earth Conditions: Implications for Astrobiology and Sustainable Life Support
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576525005910

Dynamical Constraints on a Population of Massive Interstellar Objects
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06300

Capture of Interstellar Objects and Binaries
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05905

ATLAS Photometry of Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05562

Six microlensing planets detected via sub-day signals during the 2023–2024 season
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05522

GPI+SPHERE detection of a 6.1MJup circumbinary planet around HD 143811
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06009

Quantitative Mapping of the Loeb Scale
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06253

A Deep SETI Search for Technosignatures in the TRAPPIST-1 System with FAST
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06310

Fractal Aggregate Aerosols in the Virga Cloud Code I: Model Description and Application to a Benchmark Cloudy Exoplanet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06708

HD 143811 AB b: A Directly Imaged Planet Orbiting a Spectroscopic Binary in Sco-Cen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06729

Direct Detection of Known Exoplanets in Reflected Light: Predicting Sky Position with Literature Orbit Solutions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06747

HET/HPF observations of Helium in warm, hot, and ultra-hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06847

September 08, 2025 Updates

Lightsails for Interstellar Travel: Photonics for Propulsion, Thermal Management and Stability
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsphotonics.5c00450

THE INFINITE IMPERATIVE: Humanity Beyond Earth
https://boriskriger.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/the-infinite-imperative.humanity-beyond-earth.pdf

ANTIMATTER From Quantum Origins to Cosmic Frontiers: Energy, Symmetry, and the Universe’s Hidden Mirror
https://boriskriger.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/antimatter-from-quantum-origins-to-cosmic-frontiers.pdf

OrbDot: A Python package for studying the secular evolution of exoplanet orbits
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04531

A carbon-rich atmosphere on a windy pulsar planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04558

The Evolution and Internal Structure of Neptunes and Sub-Neptunes: The importance of thermal conductivity in non-convective regions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04564

Identifying Exoplanets with Deep Learning: A CNN and RNN Classifier for Kepler DR25 and Candidate Vetting
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04793

TOI-1743 b, TOI-5799 b, TOI-5799 c and TOI-6223 b: TESS discovery and validation of four super-Earth to Neptune-sized planets around M dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05038

The Variable Radio Emission of V830 Tau and Its Putative Planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05082

Extreme Negative Polarisation of New Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05181

Planets Around Solar Twins/Analogs (PASTA) II. Chemical abundances, systematic offsets, and clues as to planet formation
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/09/aa56272-25/aa56272-25.html

Discovery of interstellar phenalene (c-C13H10): A new piece in the chemical puzzle of PAHs in space
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/09/aa56687-25/aa56687-25.html

Terrestrial planetary plants: Essential preparations for interstellar migration
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214662825001124

The Link between Athor and EL Meteorites Does Not Constrain the Timing of the Giant Planet Instability
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/adfdc9

Requirements for Joint Orbital Characterization of Cold Giants and Habitable Worlds with Habitable Worlds Observatory
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/adf84d

Predicting Exoplanet Occurrence Using Association Analysis
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/adf197