Hi Everyone
Please find Julys research papers and news items attached. A lot of interesting papers out over the last month too.
Research papers
Satellite Constellations Exceed the Limits of Acceptable Brightness Established by the IAU
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00107
The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/04/aa53381-24/aa53381-24.html
Phosphates Reveal High pH Ocean Water on Enceladus
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20937
An Earth-like Density for the Temperate Earth-sized Planet GJ 12b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20561
TNO colours provide new evidence for a past close flyby of another star to the Solar System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06693
Detailed Architecture of the L 98-59 System and Confirmation of a Fifth Planet in the Habitable Zone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09343
Torqued Accelerator using Radiation from the Sun (TARS) for Interstellar Payloads
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17615
Possibilities for SETI at High Energy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16351
The unreasonable likelihood of being
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18545
Extensive fluvial surfaces at the East Antarctic margin have modulated ice-sheet evolution
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-025-01734-z
Solar wind erosion of lunar regolith is suppressed by surface morphology and regolith properties
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12267057/
Discovery and Preliminary Characterization of a Third Interstellar Object 3IATLAS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02757
3I ATLAS in the context of the Otautahi-Oxford interstellar object population model
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05318
Opitom et. al.
*Initial VLT/MUSE spectroscopy of the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS*
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05226
Bolin et. al.
*Interstellar comet **3I**/ATLAS: discovery and physical description*
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05252
Vera C. Rubin Observatory Observations of Interstellar Comet 3IATLAS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13409
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Interesting News items
Double Novas
In the Search for Earth-like Worlds, We Should Probably Focus on Red Dwarfs
You actually learned a lot from this experement.
Magentic reversal - Big impacts
To Find Another Earth, We Need to Understand Atmospheric Escape
To Find Another Earth, We Need to Understand Atmospheric Escape
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