Interstellar Updates

 

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November 19, 2025 updates

Independent Cross-Observatory Analysis of the 3I/ATLAS Perihelion Event (29–31 October 2025)
https://zenodo.org/records/17627290

Discovery of the Tidal Deformation of WASP-103b at 3 σ with CHEOPS: Nature and Physics of Tidal Deformation in Hot Jupiters and Impact of Orbital Eccentricity on Deformation
https://zenodo.org/records/17642965

EXOHOST conference Abstract book
https://zenodo.org/records/17607056

Fractal Aggregate Aerosols in the Virga Cloud Code. I. Model Description and Application to a Benchmark Cloudy Exoplanet
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae0583

Hydrothermal Circulation and Seawater Chemistry: Links and Feedbacks
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781394229185

3I/ATLAS: Interstellar Comet or Alien Ship?
https://zenodo.org/records/17535436

Theoretical foundations of building interstellar ships Beginner’s Guide Preliminary version
https://preprints.ru/article/2172

The atmospheric composition of TOI-270 d
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.13830

TOI-333b: A Neptune Desert planet around a F7V star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.13832

Shaping the Mantle: The Role of the Superheated Core After Giant Impacts
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.14041

The KPF SURFS-UP Survey I: Transmission Spectroscopy of WASP-76 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.14175

A search for transit timing variations in the transiting hot Jupiter systems HIP 65, NGTS-6, NGTS-10 and WASP-173
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.14634

Modelling the Milky Way’s exoplanet population based on cosmological galaxy simulations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.14704

Online learning of subgrid-scale models for quasi-geostrophic turbulence in planetary interiors
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.14581

November 18, 2025 updates

NASA to Share Comet 3I/ATLAS Images From Spacecraft, Telescopes
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-to-share-comet-3i-atlas-images-from-spacecraft-telescopes/

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, an exceptional object: online observation – 19 Nov. 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krU8gN-J9gY

Exoplanet Atmospheres and Habitability Inspired Optimization Algorithm
https://zenodo.org/records/17620575

Thirty years of new worlds
https://www.nature.com/natastron/volumes/9/issues/11

Proto-planetary disk composition-dependent element volatility in the context of rocky planet formation
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/11/aa56011-25/aa56011-25.html

A decade of transit photometry for K2-19: Revised system architecture
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/11/aa56436-25/aa56436-25.html

An Earthlike Density for the Temperate Earth-sized Planet GJ 12 b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae0f98

Early Evidence for Polar Orbits of Sub-Saturns around Hot Stars
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae18c7

Rock vapour is opaque: implications for dynamics and observations of lava planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.11800

Shaping the Mantle: The Role of Superheated Cores After Giant Impacts
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.13436

The bulk metal content of WASP-80 b from joint interior-atmosphere retrievals: Breaking degeneracies and exploring biases with panchromatic spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.13483

Stellar Flares in the TESS Light Curves of Planet-hosting M dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.13716

On Bayesian inference considerations and other issues concerning Drake’s equation of Astrosociobiology
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.11582

3D Modeling of Moist Convective Inhibition in Idealized Sub-Neptune Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.18217

November 17, 2025 Updates

Space transportation without mass drop-off
https://www.academia.edu/144603939/Space_transportation_without_mass_drop_off_AAJAJ_2025_

Traversable wormholes in f (R, T ) gravity with exponential metric: energy conditions and matter viability
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1402-4896/ae1f52/meta

Comprehensive Analysis of Theoretical Faster-Than-Light Propulsion Technologies: A Multi-Modal Approach to Superluminal Travel
https://www.academia.edu/136851980/Comprehensive_Analysis_of_Theoretical_Faster_Than_Light_Propulsion_Technologies_A_Multi_Modal_Approach_to_Superluminal_Travel

A Silent Universe and the Future of AGI: A Message to Future Intelligence on Why Co-Evolution Is the Only Rational Path
https://jeet.ieet.org/index.php/home/article/view/187

Exploring Fermi’s Paradox using an intragalactic colonization model
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576525007593

Planets Across Space and Time (PAST). VIII. Kinematic Characterization and Identification of Radial Velocity Variables for the LAMOST–Gaia–TESS Stars
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/ae0d85

An Analytical Model for the Eccentricity Cascade: Hot Jupiter Formation via S-type Instability
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10726

TESS Investigation — Demographics of Young Exoplanets (TI-DYE) IV: a Jovian radius planet orbiting a 34 Myr Sun-like star in the Vela association
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10734

Indirect forces in disc-planet interaction
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10745

The impact of supermassive black holes on exoplanet habitability: I. Spanning the natural mass range
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10794

What’s Inside Matters: The Effect of Oxygen Fugacity and Initial Volatile Abundance on the Atmospheres of the TRAPPIST-1 Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10801

Unveiling the Chemical Complexity and C/O Ratio of the HD 163296 Protoplanetary Disk: Constraints from Multi-line ALMA Observations of Organics, Nitriles, Sulfur-bearing, and Deuterated Molecules
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10882

Evidence for the Keplerian orbit of a close companion around a giant star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.11247

Close-in compact super-Earth systems emerging from resonant chains: slow destabilization by unseen remnants of formation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.11329

Shadow-Induced Warps in Protoplanetary disks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.11358

A 34.6-day transiting sub-Neptune in the TOI-1422 planetary system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.11492

Probing the era of giant collisions: millimeter observations of the HD 166191 system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.11535

3I/ATLAS as an Interplanetary Cosmobiont: A Hypothesis on Intelligent Plasma Organisms in Interstellar Motion
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/397626979_3IATLAS_as_an_Interplanetary_Cosmobiont_A_Hypothesis_on_Intelligent_Plasma_Organisms_in_Interstellar_Motion

November 14, 2025 updates

The Fatal Absence of Extraterrestrial Intelligence and its Consequence for Humanity
https://www.academia.edu/112128873/The_Fatal_Absence_of_Extraterrestrial_Intelligence_and_its_Consequence_for_Humanity

Radio burst from a stellar coronal mass ejection
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09715-3

Life in Space
Astrobiology for Nonscientists
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-64639-3

Distant Trans-Neptunian Objects in the Solar System with Additional Outer Planets
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063772925702191

Understanding JWST water spectra: What can thermochemical models tell us about the (cold) water in protoplanetary disks?
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/11/aa55809-25/aa55809-25.html

A planetary system with a sub-Neptune planet in the habitable zone of TOI-2093
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/11/aa56361-25/aa56361-25.html

A decade of transit photometry for K2-19: Revised system architecture
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01985

The interstellar object significance scale (Loeb Scale): astronomical classification of interstellar objects
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/interstellar-object-significance-scale-loeb-scale-astronomical-classification-of-interstellar-objects/33F927C9600721DF14D1AA8525D7EDC0

Machine-learning analysis of solar flare light-curve morphology and implications for stellar CME prediction
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/staf2018/8323165

Using simultaneous mass accretion and external photoevaporation rates for d203-504 to constrain disc evolution processes
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/staf2015/8323173

The Influence of Tight Binaries on Protoplanetary Disk Masses
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae112b

A Near-infrared Spectral Library of Very Young Brown Dwarfs and Planetary Mass Objects in the Orion Nebula Cluster
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae0a29

Order-by-order Modeling of Exoplanet Radial Velocity Data
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ae1640

Accurate position tracking control of SMA actuators in space deployable structure
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-665X/ae1bec

Exploring Fermi’s Paradox using an intragalactic colonization model
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576525007593

The Effect of Composition on Shear Localization in Planetary Lithospheres
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025JE009106

3I/ATLAS as an Interplanetary Cosmobiont: A Hypothesis on Intelligent Plasma Organisms in Interstellar Motion
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/397626979_3IATLAS_as_an_Interplanetary_Cosmobiont_A_Hypothesis_on_Intelligent_Plasma_Organisms_in_Interstellar_Motion

EMPEROR. I. Exoplanet MCMC parallel tempering for RV orbit retrieval
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/397611342_EMPEROR_I_Exoplanet_MCMC_parallel_tempering_for_RV_orbit_retrieval

Detecting Evolutionary Climate Patterns In Early Universe Exoplanet Analogues
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/397561228_Detecting_Evolutionary_Climate_Patterns_In_Early_Universe_Exoplanet_Analogues

Fundamentals of interior modelling and challenges in the interpretation of observed rocky exoplanets
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/397596105_Fundamentals_of_interior_modelling_and_challenges_in_the_interpretation_of_observed_rocky_exoplanets

Analyzing Exoplanet Transits Observed with the WFC3/UVIS G280 Grism
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/397595536_Analyzing_Exoplanet_Transits_Observed_with_the_WFC3UVIS_G280_Grism

Planetary architectures under the influence of a stellar binary
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.09676

PEPSI Investigation, Retrieval, and Atlas of Numerous Giant Atmospheres (PIRANGA). IV. High-Resolution Phased-Resolved Spectroscopy of The Ultra Hot Jupiter KELT-20 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.09720

True spin-orbit obliquities distribution: data-driven confirmation of no clustering of misaligned planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10313

ASASSN-24fw: Candidate circumplanetary disk occultation of a main-sequence star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05367

November 13, 2025 updates

Astrobiology and Planetary Sciences in Latin America
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-01450-4

System Analysis for a high-precision high-accuracy Astrometric instrument for HWO
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.07113

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS (aka C/2025 N1 ATLAS): the ion tail is getting longer
https://www.virtualtelescope.eu/2025/11/11/interstellar-comet-3i-atlas-aka-c-2025-n1-atlas-the-ion-tail-is-getting-longer-11-nov-2025/

Evidence for the Keplerian orbit of a close companion around a giant star
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41550-025-02697-2

Life in Space: Astrobiology for Nonscientists
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-64639-3

The possibility of hydrogen-water demixing in Uranus, Neptune, K2-18 b and TOI-270 d
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/11/aa56322-25/aa56322-25.html

New migration patterns in high planet–star mass ratio systems in discs with low viscosity
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/11/aa55041-25/aa55041-25.html

Direct Spectroscopy of 51 Eridani b with JWST NIRSpec
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae1028

No TiO detected in the hot Neptune-desert planet LTT-9779 b in reflected light at high spectral resolution
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.08691

CoronaGraph Instrument Reference stars for Exoplanets (CorGI-REx) I. Preliminary Vetting and Implications for the Roman Coronagraph and Habitable Worlds Observatory
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.08862

Abiogenesis on Different Star Types; a Dissipative Photochemical Perspective
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.08624

Second Generation Planet Formation in Post-AGB Discs: Testing the Role of Gravitational Instability
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03894