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most citedA roadmap for the atmospheric characterization of terrestrial exoplanets with JWST

36 citations · 59 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

physics.chem-ph2026

Simulating Ionic Liquid Fragmentation in Electrospray Thrusters with Foundation Models

Ziyu Huang

Predicting the products of ionic-liquid impacts on extractor surfaces is important for electrospray-thruster lifetime analysis, yet available atomistic methods require a compromise…

astro-ph.IM2026

Early Exploration of the Scientific Discovery Space for the Habitable Worlds Observatory

Courtney D. Dressing, Danica Adams, Evelyne Alecian +324

The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is a future NASA flagship mission concept identified by the Astro2020 Decadal Survey as the highest priority for large space missions. HWO sh…

physics.geo-ph2026

Benchmarking Universal Machine Learning Force Fields for Molecular Dynamics of Lunar Regolith Minerals

Ziyu Huang, Ken-ichi Nomura

Universal machine-learning interatomic potentials provide a promising route for accelerating molecular dynamics simulations of materials, but their transferability to lunar regolit…

astro-ph.GA2026

The Internal Nebular Attenuation Curve of Three-Dimensional Turbulent HII regions

Yifei Jin, Yong Shi, Ralph Sutherland +2

The internal dust attenuation of the Hii region reduces the observed emission-line fluxes. Turbulent density fields within each Hii region change the degree of the line-of-the-sigh…

astro-ph.EP2026

Coupled Space Weathering: Nanophase Iron Formation by Micrometeoroid Impact and Solar Wind Sputtering

Ziyu Huang, Masatoshi Hirabayashi

Understanding the interplay between micrometeoroid impacts and solar wind irradiation is crucial for interpreting lunar surface evolution. Using reactive molecular dynamics simulat…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 4 cited

First JWST thermal phase curves of temperate terrestrial exoplanets reveal no thick atmosphere around TRAPPIST-1 b and c

Michaël Gillon, Elsa Ducrot, Taylor J. Bell +30

We report JWST/MIRI 15 m phase curves of TRAPPIST-1 b and c, revealing thermal emission consistent with their irradiation levels, assuming no efficient heat redistribution. We f…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 1 cited

Exoplanet Atmospheric Escape Observations with the Habitable Worlds Observatory

Leonardo A. Dos Santos, Eric D. Lopez, Luca Fossati +15

The Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics 2020 highlights the importance of advancing research focused on discovering and characterizing habitable worlds. In line with this…

physics.plasm-ph2025★ 2 cited

Surrogate Modeling of Landau Damping with Deep Operator Networks

Simin Shekarpaz, Chuanfei Dong, Ziyu Huang

Kinetic simulations excel at capturing microscale plasma physics phenomena with high accuracy, but their computational demands make them impractical for modeling large-scale space…

physics.plasm-ph2025★ 16 cited

Machine-learning heat flux closure for multi-moment fluid modeling of nonlinear Landau damping

Ziyu Huang, Chuanfei Dong, Liang Wang

Nonlinear plasma physics problems are usually simulated through comprehensive modeling of phase space. The extreme computational cost of such simulations has motivated the developm…

astro-ph.EP2024

Probing Cold-to-Temperate Exoplanetary Atmospheres: The Role of Water Condensation on Surface Identification with JWST

Ziyu Huang, Xinting Yu, Shang-Min Tsai +5

Understanding the surface temperature and interior structure of cold-to-temperate sub-Neptunes is critical for assessing their habitability, yet direct observations are challenging…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 36 cited

A roadmap for the atmospheric characterization of terrestrial exoplanets with JWST

TRAPPIST-1 JWST Community Initiative, :, Julien de Wit +80

Ultra-cool dwarf stars are abundant, long-lived, and uniquely suited to enable the atmospheric study of transiting terrestrial companions with JWST. Amongst them, the most prominen…