Summer publications 2026

This summer we have had a plethora of publications. We have collected them here.

Alei, E., A.M. Mandell, M.H. Currie, et al. including V. Kofman (2026). Multibandpass Photometry for Exoplanet Atmosphere Reconnaissance (MPEAR) with the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO). I. Differentiating Earth from Neptunes during Discovery. The Astronomical Journal 171 (4), 228. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2512.05279 

Baalsrud H.T., Tørresen O. K., Danneels B, Ferrari G., Tooming-Klunderud A., Skage M., Kollias S., Arnyasi M., Svensen E., Kuklinski P., Jakobsen K. S. & Liow L.H. 2026 Chromosomal fusions shaped the genome of the greater hornwrack bryozoan (Flustra foliacea) Journal of Heredity: https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esag013 

Batra, K., S. Olson, V. Kofman (2026). Impact of Climate States and Seasons on Future Exo-Earth Observations. The Astrophysical Journal 1003 (2), 213. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ae5e46 

Burr, Z., M. Damiano, V. Kofman, R. Hu, G. L. Villanueva (2026). Retrieving the red edge on Earth-like planets with heterogeneous clouds and surfaces. The Astrophysical Journal 1001 (2), 222. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ae563d 

Conrad, C. P., and M. Domeier (2026), Seamount volcanism associated with Earth’s basal mantle structures, Nature Geoscience, 19, 822-827, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41561-026-02007-z 

Dowding E. M., Dunne E.M., Collins K., Cryer K., De Baets K., Dimitrijević D., Edie S.M., Finnegan S., Kiessling W., Lintulaakso K., Liow L. H., Little H., Na L., Peters S.E., Renaudie J.,Saupe E.E., Seuss B., Sessa J. A., Smith J.A. , Uhen M.D., Williams J.W. and Kocsis A.T. 2026 Fossils for Future: the billion-dollar case for palaeontology’s digital infrastructure. Nature Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-026-02985-8 

Escartin, J., Sautter, B., Gaina, C., Granot, R., Petersen, S., and M. Pubellier, Global geometry of mid-ocean and back-arc ridge systems: Ridge segments, transform faults, and non-transform offsets, 2026, Earth Science Reviews, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2026.105633

Feng, S., Meng, J., Zhao, X., Tonti-Filippini, J. A., Zhang, C., & Zhou, Z. (2026). Paleomagnetic constraints on the paleogeography of Permian exotic blocks in the Yarlung Zangbo Mélange Zone, South Tibet. Geological Society of America Bulletin. https://doi.org/10.1130/B38904.1 

Jewitt, D., Luu J., Kim Y., 2026, "Investigation of Split Comet 240P/NEAT,” The Astronomical Journal, Vol. 172, 113. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ae83ac.

Latouf, N., C. Stark, A.M. Mandell, V. Kofman (2026). Determining the Detectability of H2O with Photometric Observations Using Bayesian Analysis for Remote Biosignature Identification on exo-Earths (BARBIE). The Astronomical Journal 171 (2), 74. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ae29b1 

Király, Á., Y. Wang, C. P. Conrad, L. N. Hansen, and B. Mather (2026), CPO2Hill: An efficient parametrisation to infer anisotropic viscous behaviour directly from olivine texture parameters, Geodynamica, 1, http://dx.doi.org/10.5070/F3.49008.

Kofman, V. (2026). Spectral signatures from the habitable zone. In Advancing the Search for Technosignatures, Proceedings of IAU Symposium #404 (forthcoming). https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.08993 

Payne, A., G. L. Villanueva, V. Kofman et al., (2026). A comprehensive spectroscopic reference of the solar system and its application to exoplanet direct imaging. The Planetary Science Journal 7 (2), 51. https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ae2feb 

Sanderson, H.R., Courville, S.W., Harrison, C.S., Rider-Stokes, B.G., Davies, F.A., Suttle, M.D., Davison, T.M., 2026. Insights into the size and number of CM chondrite parent bodies from thermal modelling and links to asteroids. Journal of the Geological Society. https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2026-033

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