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most citedAtmospheric C/O Ratios of Sub-Neptunes with Magma Oceans: Homemade rather than Inherited

22 citations · 45 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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astro-ph.EP2026

A New Global Chemical Equilibrium Code: Refractory Element Signatures in Super-Earths and Sub-Neptunes

Simon Grimm, Marie-Luise Steinmeyer, Aaron Werlen +3

The atmospheres of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes can be strongly modified by chemical exchange with their molten interiors during long-lived magma ocean phases. Interpreting atmosp…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 5 cited

Coupled Thermal-Chemical Evolution Models of Sub-Neptunes Reveal Atmospheric Signatures of Their Formation Location

Marie-Luise Steinmeyer, Caroline Dorn, Aaron Werlen +1

The observed masses and radii of sub-Neptunes are typically explained by the gas dwarf and the water world scenarios. While their evolutionary history on a population level has bee…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 16 cited

Sub-Neptunes Are Drier Than They Seem: Rethinking the Origins of Water-Rich Worlds

Aaron Werlen, Caroline Dorn, Remo Burn +3

Recent claims of biosignature gases in sub-Neptune atmospheres have renewed interest in water-rich sub-Neptunes with surface oceans, often referred to as Hycean planets. These plan…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 22 cited

Atmospheric C/O Ratios of Sub-Neptunes with Magma Oceans: Homemade rather than Inherited

Aaron Werlen, Caroline Dorn, Hilke E. Schlichting +2

Recently, the James Webb Space Telescope has enabled detailed spectroscopic characterization of sub-Neptune atmospheres. With detections of carbon- and oxygen-bearing species such…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 1 cited

Water-rich sub-Neptunes and rocky super Earths around different Stars: Radii shaped by Volatile Partitioning, Formation, and Evolution

Remo Burn, Komal Bali, Caroline Dorn +2

The nature of sub-Neptunes remains unknown due to degeneracies in interior structure solutions. However, a statistical set of small planets with measured masses and radii can be us…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 1 cited

Impact of oxygen fugacity on atmospheric structure and emission spectra of ultra hot rocky exoplanets

Fabian L. Seidler, Paolo A. Sossi, Simon L. Grimm

Atmospheres above lava-ocean planets (LOPs) hold clues as to the properties of their interiors, owing to the expectation that the two reservoirs are in chemical equilibrium. Here w…