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Origin of Life Molecules in the Atmosphere After Big Impacts on the Early Earth
Nicholas F. Wogan, David C. Catling, Kevin J. Zahnle +1
The origin of life on Earth would benefit from a prebiotic atmosphere that produced nitriles, like HCN, which enable ribonucleotide synthesis. However, geochemical evidence suggest…
A reflective, metal-rich atmosphere for GJ 1214b from its JWST phase curve
Eliza M. -R. Kempton, Michael Zhang, Jacob L. Bean +30
There are no planets intermediate in size between Earth and Neptune in our Solar System, yet these objects are found around a substantial fraction of other stars. Population statis…
The impact of ultraviolet heating and cooling on the dynamics and observability of lava planet atmospheres
T. Giang Nguyen, Nicolas B. Cowan, Raymond T. Pierrehumbert +2
Lava planets have non-global, condensible atmospheres similar to icy bodies within the solar system. Because they depend on interior dynamics, studying the atmospheres of lava plan…
K2 and Spitzer phase curves of the rocky ultra-short-period planet K2-141 b hint at a tenuous rock vapor atmosphere
S. Zieba, M. Zilinskas, L. Kreidberg +11
K2-141 b is a transiting, small (1.5 Re) ultra-short-period (USP) planet discovered by Kepler orbiting a K-dwarf host star every 6.7 hours. The planet's high surface temperature ma…
Observability of Evaporating Lava Worlds
Mantas Zilinskas, Christiaan van Buchem, Yamila Miguel +4
Lava worlds belong to a class of short orbital period planets reaching dayside temperatures high enough to melt their silicate crust. Theory predicts that the resulting lava oceans…
The Sonora Substellar Atmosphere Models. II. Cholla: A Grid of Cloud-free, Solar Metallicity Models in Chemical Disequilibrium for the JWST Era
Theodora Karalidi, Mark Marley, Jonathan J. Fortney +5
Exoplanet and brown dwarf atmospheres commonly show signs of disequilibrium chemistry. In the James Webb Space Telescope era high resolution spectra of directly imaged exoplanets w…