Interstellar Updates

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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

STCTM: a forward modeling and retrieval framework for stellar contamination and stellar spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19297

Communicating astrobiology and the search for life elsewhere: speculations and promises of a developing scientific field in newspapers, press releases and papers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19984

Evidence of Titanate Clouds in the Day-side Atmosphere of the Ultra-Hot Jupiter WASP-121b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20022

Xenobiology and Alien Chemistry
https://socialecologies.wordpress.com/2025/08/13/xenobiology-and-alien-chemistry/

3I/ATLAS (C/2025 N1): Direct Spacecraft Exploration of a Possible Relic of Planetary Formation at “Cosmic Noon”
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15768

Study of Cloud Microphysics on the Climate and Observational Prospects of Potentially Habitable Exoplanets
https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/15903?ln=en&v=pdf

WIde Separation Planets In Time (WISPIT): A Gap-clearing Planet in a Multi-ringed Disk around the Young Solar-type Star WISPIT 2
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/adf721

Wide Separation Planets in Time (WISPIT): Discovery of a Gap Hα Protoplanet WISPIT 2b with MagAO-X
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/adf7a5

Scaling K2. VIII. Short-period Sub-Neptune Occurrence Rates Peak Around Early-type M Dwarfs
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/adf633

Detecting Land with Reflected-light Spectroscopy to Rule Out Waterworld O2 Biosignature False Positives
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adec69

Effects of Outer Giant Planets on In Situ Formation of Inner Super-Earths
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adf1a6

X-Ray-induced Photochemistry of Hydrocarbons: Implications for the Formation of Organic Haze in (Exo)Planetary Atmospheres
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/adf4d3

Life in the Exoplanet K2‑18b?
https://journals.nasspublishing.com/index.php/eps/article/view/2317

The mid-infrared spectrum of β Pictoris b. First VLTI/MATISSE interferometric observations of an exoplanet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18366

Enriched volatiles and refractories but deficient titanium on the dayside atmosphere of WASP-121b revealed by JWST/NIRISS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18341

KMT-2018-BLG-0029Lb and OGLE-2019-BLG-0960Lb: Mass Measurements for Two Super-Earth Microlensing Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18343

In Search of Decay: An Analysis of Transit Times of Hot Jupiters in Main Sequence and Post-Main Sequence Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18355

VLT observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS II. From quiescence to glow: Dramatic rise of Ni I emission and incipient CN outgassing at large heliocentric distances
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18382

WIde Separation Planets In Time (WISPIT): Two directly imaged exoplanets around the Sun-like stellar binary WISPIT 1
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18456

VLT/CRIRES+ observations of warm Neptune WASP-107 b: Molecular detections and challenges in ground-based transmission spectroscopy of cooler and cloudy exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18964

Is ozone a reliable proxy for molecular oxygen? III. The impact of CH on the O-O relationship for Earth-like atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19062

Silane-Methane Competition in Sub-Neptune Atmospheres as a Diagnostic of Metallicity and Magma Oceans
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19235

The Adaptive Communication Framework (ACF) for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Discovery
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18287

Soot Planets instead of Water Worlds
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16781

The HD 60779 Planetary System: A Transiting Sub-Neptune on a 30-day Orbit and a More Massive Outer World
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16805

Technosignature Searches of Interstellar Objects
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16825

Detecting Gravitational Waves from Exoplanets Orbiting Binary Neutron Stars with B-DECIGO and DECIGO
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17385

HD 28471: a near-resonant compact multiplanet system with a possible cold giant planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18000

TOI-2322: two transiting rocky planets close to the stellar rotation period and its first harmonic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18094

The NEID Earth Twin Survey. IV. Confirming an 89 d, msini=10 M⊕ Planet Orbiting a Nearby Sun-like Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18169

JWST detection of a carbon dioxide dominated gas coma surrounding interstellar object 3I/ATLAS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18209

Free-floating Planets Produced by Planet-Planet Scatterings: Ejection Velocity and Survival Rate of Their Moons
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18239

Time Dilation in Interstellar Missions: A Systematic Literature Review on Relativistic Effects and Technological Solutions
https://e-journal.hamzanwadi.ac.id/index.php/kpj/article/view/30399

Construction of deep space communication channel environment prediction model based on deep learning
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00521-025-11557-z

AI and ML Techniques in Image Processing and Object Detection
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-96-7445-9#page=82

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs: Revisiting the GJ 317, GJ463, and GJ 3512 systems and two newly discovered planets orbiting GJ9773 and GJ 508.2
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/08/aa54992-25/aa54992-25.html

Giant planet formation via pebble accretion across different stellar masses
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/08/aa55787-25/aa55787-25.html

CAMPOS II. The onset of protostellar disk substructures and planet formation
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/08/aa55174-25/aa55174-25.html

An Aligned Sub-Neptune Revealed with MAROON-X and a Tendency Toward Alignment for Small Planets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/adf070

Aerosol dynamics on hot exoplanets: the role of radiation pressure
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/staf1403/8240269?searchresult=1

Pushing the limits of eccentricity in planet-disc interactions
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/staf1399/8240267?searchresult=1

Terrestrial Exoplanet Internal Structure Constraints Enabled by Comprehensive Host Star Characterization Reveal that Terrestrial Planets in Mean-motion Resonances are Water Rich
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16421

Extending the Rock Cycle to a Cosmic Scale
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/15/8/327

Unveiling Rogue Exoplanets: Swarm Cubesat Telescope
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42496-025-00289-x 

Intact polar lipids as organic biomarkers of viable extraterrestrial life
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44453-025-00006-9

Galactic Trajectories of Interstellar Objects 1I/’Oumuamua, 2I/Borisov, and 3I/Atlas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.02739

CRIRES+ transmission spectroscopy of WASP-127 b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/01/aa50438-24/aa50438-24.html

(Toward) Discovery of Life beyond Earth and its Impact (IAU S387)
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/toward-discovery-of-life-beyond-earth-and-its-impact-iau-s387/61A4CB74D5E212A2224F4A706E8D1885

Probing superheavy dark matter with exoplanets
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/394772435_Probing_superheavy_dark_matter_with_exoplanets

Machine learning revolution for exoplanet direct imaging detection: transformer architectures
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/394790308_Machine_learning_revolution_for_exoplanet_direct_imaging_detection_transformer_architectures 

3I/ATLAS (C/2025 N1): Direct Spacecraft Exploration of a Possible Relic of Planetary Formation at “Cosmic Noon”
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15768

SPHEREx Discovery of Strong Water Ice Absorption and an Extended Carbon Dioxide Coma in 3I/ATLAS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15469

Overview of complex organic molecule observations in protostellar systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15771

Carbon-rich Sub-Neptune Interiors Are Compatible with JWST Observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15117

Mineral cloud formation above magma oceans in sub-Neptune atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15097

TrES-1 b: A Case Study in Detecting Secular Evolution of Exoplanet Orbits
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15075

A Near-Infrared Spectral Library of Very Young Brown Dwarfs and Planetary-Mass Objects in the Orion Nebula Cluster
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14035