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Convective shutdown in the atmospheres of lava worlds
Harrison Nicholls, Raymond T. Pierrehumbert, Tim Lichtenberg +2
Atmospheric energy transport is central to the cooling of primordial magma oceans. Theoretical studies of atmospheres on lava planets have assumed that convection is the only proce…
Tides on Lava Worlds: Application to Close-in Exoplanets and the Early Earth-Moon System
Mohammad Farhat, Pierre Auclair-Desrotour, Gwenaël Boué +2
Understanding the physics of planetary magma oceans has been the subject of growing efforts, in light of the increasing abundance of Solar system samples and extrasolar surveys. A…
Magma ocean evolution at arbitrary redox state
Harrison Nicholls, Tim Lichtenberg, Dan J. Bower +1
Interactions between magma oceans and overlying atmospheres on young rocky planets leads to an evolving feedback of outgassing, greenhouse forcing, and mantle melt fraction. Previo…
Database of Candidate Targets for the LIFE Mission
Franziska Menti, José A. Caballero, Mark C. Wyatt +11
We present the database of potential targets for the Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE), a space-based mid-infrared nulling interferometer mission proposed for the Voyage 2…
Towards a unified injection model of short-lived radioisotopes in N-body simulations of star-forming regions
J. W. Eatson, R. J. Parker, T. Lichtenberg
Recent research provides compelling evidence that the decay of short-lived radioisotopes (SLRs), such as 26Al, provided the bulk of energy for heating and desiccation of volatile-r…
Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE). XIV. Finding terrestrial protoplanets in the galactic neighborhood
Lorenzo Cesario, Tim Lichtenberg, Eleonora Alei +62
The increased brightness temperature of young rocky protoplanets during their magma ocean epoch makes them potentially amenable to atmospheric characterization to distances from th…