2 papers
astro-ph.EP2026
An Evolving Cosmic Shoreline and Sandbar Bounding the Rocky Airless Valley
Barron K. Nguyen, Laura K. Schaefer, Xuan Ji +7
Recent JWST observations challenge the traditional 'cosmic shoreline' from both sides, revealing thick volatile atmospheres on the hottest close-in 'lava worlds,' where irradiation…
astro-ph.EP2025
The Cosmic Shoreline Revisited: A Metric for Atmospheric Retention Informed by Hydrodynamic Escape
Xuan Ji, Richard D. Chatterjee, Brandon Park Coy +1
The "cosmic shoreline," a semi-empirical relation that separates airless worlds from worlds with atmospheres as proposed by K. J. Zahnle & D. C. Catling, is now guiding large-scale…