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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June 24, 2025 updates

A Library of 77 Multibody Solar and Extrasolar Subsystems—A Review of Their Dynamical Properties, Global Mean-Motion Resonances, and the Landau-Damped Mean Tidal Fields
https://www.mdpi.com/2674-0346/4/3/11

Exoplanet Quantum Limits
https://zenodo.org/records/15723030

Determining the Physical Masses of Exoplanets Observed by Radial Velocity Measurements: A Review of Methods and Solutions, Results, and New Questions from Published Data
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S0038094624601622

Exploring Systematic Errors in the Inferred Parameters of the Transiting Planet KELT-15b and its Host Star
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/staf1017/8172007

Multivariate Statistical Analysis of Exoplanet Habitability: Detection Bias and Earth Analog Identification
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18200

Planet formation in chemically diverse and evolving discs — I. Composition of planetary building blocks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17399

A High Geometric Albedo for LTT9779b Points Towards a Metal-rich Atmosphere and Silicate Clouds
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17550

Advanced Modeling for Exoplanet Detection and Characterization
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17665

Planetary Obliquity Excitation Through Pre-Main Sequence Stellar Evolution
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17843

Searching for GEMS: TOI-7149~b an Inflated Giant Planet causing a 12% Transit of a Fully Convective M-dwarf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17861

Semiconvection unlocks dynamo action in stably-stratified regions of gaseous planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18521

TOI-1846b: A super-Earth in the radius valley orbiting a nearby M dwarf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18550

The influence of interior structure and thermal state on impact melt generation upon large impacts onto terrestrial planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18718

A complete census of planet-hosting binaries
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18759

June 23, 2025 updates

From Space to the Hadean Earth: Prebiotic Synthesis and the Origins of Life
https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/36595/

Unrestricted Earth Return, Planetary Protection and the Wisdom of the Precautionary Principle
https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation?paperid=143385k

Towards satellite tests combining general relativity and quantum mechanics through quantum optical interferometry: progress on the deep space quantum link
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjqt/s40507-025-00370-1

Solar system research prospects for the decade and beyond
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12036-025-10060-0

Spottedness and Flare Activity of Solar-Type Stars with Exoplanets
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063772925701768

Oort cloud ecology III. The Sun’s departure from the parent star cluster shortly after the giant planets formed
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/06/aa54855-25/aa54855-25.html

Exo-Dragonfly: Adapting the Dragonfly Telephoto Array to the Observation of Exoplanet Transits
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ade00b

Surprising Spin–Orbit Resonances of Rocky Planets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/add2f3

A Dichotomy of the Mass-Metallicity Relation of Exoplanetary Atmospheres Demarcated by their Birthplace
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16060

(Re)-Defining Planets — the Fundamental Plane of Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16071

Investigating Transit Timing Variations in the Ultra-short Period Exoplanet WASP-19b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16306

Possibilities for SETI at High Energy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16351

Disentangling Metallicity Effects in Hot Jupiter Occurrence Across Galactic Birth Radius and Phase-Space Density
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16511

Exoplanet Classification through Vision Transformers with Temporal Image Analysis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16597

Super-Earth formation in systems with cold giants
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17091

June 20, 2025 updates

Implications of vanishing complexity and Navarro-Frenk-White profile on the existence of traversable wormholes in gravity
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003491625002039

New ultrasound-assisted microreactor for extracting extraterrestrial biomolecules
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1350417725001956

Multiparameter Constraints on Empirical Infrasound Period-yield Relations for Bolides and Implications for Planetary Defense
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/add47d

Effects of Transient Stellar Emissions on Planetary Climates of Tidally Locked Exo-Earths
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/add33e

June 19, 2025 updates

Strong link between Earth’s oxygen level and geomagnetic dipole revealed since the last 540 million years
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adu8826

WISE 12 μm search for exozodi candidates within 10 parsecs
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/06/aa54746-25/aa54746-25.html

The ESO SupJup Survey – VIII. Chemical fingerprints of young L dwarf twins
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/06/aa54195-25/aa54195-25.html

Stability regions of glued wormholes with massless Kim-Lee backreacted spacetimes as interior
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1402-4896/ade2a3

Accelerating Long-period Exoplanet Discovery by Combining Deep Learning and Citizen Science
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/add46d

N-body Simulations of the Self-confinement of Viscous Self-gravitating Narrow Eccentric Planetary Ringlets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/add3f5

Revisiting the Li Abundances of Stars with and without Detected Planets from High-resolution Spectroscopy
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/addac3

Quantifying the Impact of the Dust Torque on the Migration of Low-mass Planets. II. The Role of Pebble Accretion in Planet Growth within a Global Planet Formation Model
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/add92a

A Tale of Dynamical Instabilities and Giant Impacts in the Exoplanet Radius Valley
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/adde51

The Orbit of WASP-4 b is in Decay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15022

Interaction of Trappist-1 exoplanets with coronal mass ejections: Joule heating, Poynting fluxes and the role of magnetic fields
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15243

16 Myr super-Neptune in Upper-Centaurus Lupus and a preliminary survey of transiting planets in Sco-Cen with TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.00576

June 18, 2025 updates

High-resolution, high-efficiency narrowband spectroscopy with an s-p-phased holographic grating in double pass
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/06/aa54218-25/aa54218-25.html

Clouds Can Enhance Direct-imaging Detection of O2 and O3 on Terrestrial Exoplanets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/add46b

Detection of Hydrocarbons in the Disk around an Actively Accreting Planetary-mass Object
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/add71d

Multiplicity of young isolated planetary mass objects in Taurus and Upper Scorpius
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14380

BEBOP VII. SOPHIE discovery of BEBOP-3b, a circumbinary giant planet on an eccentric orbit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14615

SETI@home: Data Acquisition and Front-End Processing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14718

SETI@home: Data Analysis and Findings
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14737

Technosignature Searches with Real-time Alert Brokers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14744