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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August 4, 2025 Updates

Fine-tuning the complex organic molecule formation: sulfur and CO ice as regulators of surface chemistry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17595

The Great Filter as a Statistical Limit
https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202507.1452/v3

The Linear Stein Accelerator and Gravity Vector Projector
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/393914951_The_Linear_Stein_Accelerator_and_Gravity_Vector_Projector

The Macroscopic Zeno Effect in the Literature
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/393918318_The_Macroscopic_Zeno_Effect_in_the_Literature

A high geometric albedo for LTT9779b points toward a metal-rich atmosphere and silicate clouds
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/08/aa54303-25/aa54303-25.html

Shaping Galactic habitability: Impact of stellar migration and gas giants
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/08/aa55050-25/aa55050-25.html

Existence of wormhole in Dekel–Zhao dark matter halo
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2212686425002353

Planets and planetesimals at cosmic dawn: Vortices as planetary nurseries
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/staf1258/8220041

Biosignature preservation in FaRLiP cyanobacteria after prolonged desiccation and its relevance to space missions searching for life
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/biosignature-preservation-in-farlip-cyanobacteria-after-prolonged-desiccation-and-its-relevance-to-space-missions-searching-for-life/05A20661DF4064D8D3CD655477C15DB2

Towards the Habitable Worlds Observatory: 1D CNN Retrieval of Reflection Spectra from Evolving Earth Analogs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00076

Reliability of 1D radiative-convective photochemical-equilibrium retrievals on transit spectra of WASP-107b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00177

Development of Space Qualified Signal Processing Readout Electronics for HabWorlds and Origins Space Telescope Detector and Arrays
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00322

Formation of Planetesimals in the Outer Solar System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00369

Predictions of dust continuum observations of circumplanetary disks with ngVLA: A case study of PDS 70 c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00393

Temporal Evolution of the Third Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS: Spin, Color, Spectra and Dust Activity
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00808

August 01, 2025 updates

A Rationale for Proposing an Interstellar Arrival Sentinel
https://bis-space.com/shop/product/jbis-078-01-0020/

The ESPRESSO transmission spectrum of HD189733 b – Extracting the planetary sodium and lithium signatures amid stellar contamination
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/08/aa54785-25/aa54785-25.html

The Role of Tectonic Luck in Long-Term Habitability of Abiotic Earth-like Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23124

The Hot Neptune Initiative (HONEI) II. TOI-5795 b: A hot super-Neptune orbiting a metal-poor star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23413

July 31, 2025 updates

The EXO-UV Program: Latest Advances of Experimental Studies to Investigate the Biological Impact of UV Radiation on Exoplanets
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S0038094624602019

Geometric albedo of WASP-12 b and WASP-76 b in the CHEOPS and TESS bandpasses (Corrigendum)
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/08/aa56327e-25/aa56327e-25.html

Investigating Transit Timing Variations in the Ultrashort Period Exoplanet WASP-19b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ade998

A 16 Myr Super-Neptune in Upper Centaurus Lupus and a Preliminary Survey of Transiting Planets in Sco-Cen with TESS
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ade67f

Inferring and Interpreting the Visual Geometric Albedo and Phase Function of Earth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22258

July 30, 2025 updates

NIRPS joining HARPS at ESO 3.6 m – On-sky performance and science objectives
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2025/08/aa53341-24/aa53341-24.html

Spectroscopy of Free-floating Planetary-mass Objects and Their Disks with JWST
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/adea50

A Transiting Giant on a 7.7 yr Orbit Revealed by Transit Timing Variations in the TOI-201 System
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/adefe5

Dynamical Instability of Multi-planet Systems and Free-floating Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21216

Blind search for activity-sensitive lines in the near-infrared using HARPS and NIRPS observations of Proxima and Gl 581
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21262

NIRPS detection of delayed atmospheric escape from the warm and misaligned Saturn-mass exoplanet WASP-69b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21284

Preferential alignments of exoplanetary orbital planes in Milky Way spiral arms
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21309

Intercepting 3I/ATLAS at Closest Approach to Jupiter with the Juno spacecraft
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21402

Requirements for Joint Orbital Characterization of Cold Giants and Habitable Worlds with Habitable Worlds Observatory
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21443

Diving into the planetary system of Proxima with NIRPS — Breaking the metre per second barrier in the infrared
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21751

Precovery Observations of 3I/ATLAS from TESS Suggests Possible Distant Activity
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21967

Multi-frequency observations of PDS 70c: Radio emission mechanisms in the circum-planetary environment
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21970

July 29, 2025 updates

From Extraterrestrial Microbes to Alien Intelligence: Rebalancing Astronomical Research Priorities
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17790

The Response of Planetary Atmospheres to the Impact of Icy Comets II: exo-Earth Analogues
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18256

The unreasonable likelihood of being: origin of life, terraforming, and AI
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18545

Journeying beyond the gravity and interstellar space: Unveiling the Health Challenge in space missions – An extensive review
https://banglajol.info/index.php/BJMS/article/view/82950

The role of interior dynamics and differentiation on the surface and in the atmosphere of lava planets
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02617-4

The Galactic habitability
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12210-025-01346-0

Convective dynamics in mantle of tidally-locked exoplanets
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41467-025-62026-z

Estimating the potential of ionizing radiation-induced radiolysis for microbial metabolism on terrestrial planets and satellites with rarefied atmospheres
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/estimating-the-potential-of-ionizing-radiationinduced-radiolysis-for-microbial-metabolism-on-terrestrial-planets-and-satellites-with-rarefied-atmospheres/187F317A3974A2008227C707538785E9

NIRPS detection of delayed atmospheric escape from the warm and misaligned Saturn-mass exoplanet WASP-69 b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/08/aa52525-24/aa52525-24.html

Studying the variability of the He triplet to understand the detection limits of evaporating exoplanet atmospheres
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/08/aa52856-24/aa52856-24.html

Hydride ion continuum hides absorption signatures in the NIRPS near-infrared transmission spectrum of the ultra-hot gas giant WASP-189b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/08/aa52972-24/aa52972-24.html

Diving into the planetary system of Proxima with NIRPS – Breaking the metre per second barrier in the infrared
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/08/aa53728-25/aa53728-25.html

Life on the Edge: Using Planetary Context to Enhance Biosignatures and Avoid False Positives
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/staf1204/8213525

Metal-polluted White Dwarfs with 21 μm IR Excesses from JWST/MIRI: Planets or Dust?
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ade68c

The Impact of Different Haze Types on the Atmosphere and Observations of Hot Jupiters: 3D Simulations of HD 189733b, HD209458b and WASP-39b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20366

Exoplanet Detection Using Machine Learning Models Trained on Synthetic Light Curves
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19520