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astro-ph.EP2026
Thermal Evolution of Lava Planets Across System Ages: Predictions for Hell of a Survey
Mariana Sastre, Tim Lichtenberg, Lisa Dang +22
Ultra-short-period (USP) rocky exoplanets can have dayside temperatures high enough to maintain permanent magma oceans, sitting at the intersection of interior geophysics and atmos…
astro-ph.EP2026
Coupled orbital and interior structure evolution of lava planets
Mahesh Herath, Nicolas B. Cowan, Charles-Édouard Boukaré +1
Lava planets likely did not form in their current orbits, instead migrating inward via orbital decay, which influenced the evolution of their magma oceans. We introduce a coupled t…
astro-ph.EP2024
Thermal Evolution of Lava Planets
Mahesh Herath, Charles-Édouard Boukaré, Nicolas B. Cowan
Rocky planets are thought to form with a magma ocean that quickly solidifies. The horizontal and vertical extent of this magma ocean depends on the interior thermal evolution of th…