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most citedBifurcation of planetary building blocks during Solar System formation

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astro-ph.EP2025

Onset of habitable conditions on the Hadean Earth set by feedback between tides and greenhouse forcing

Marijn R. van Dijk, Harrison Nicholls, Tim Lichtenberg

In the aftermath of the Moon-forming giant impact, the Hadean Earth's mantle and surface crystallized from a global magma ocean blanketed by a dense volatile-rich atmosphere. While…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 13 cited

Constraining exoplanet interiors using observations of their atmospheres

Tim Lichtenberg, Oliver Shorttle, Johanna Teske +1

Astronomical surveys have identified numerous exoplanets with bulk compositions that are unlike the planets of the Solar System, including rocky super-Earths and gas-enveloped sub-…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 14 cited

Magma ocean interactions can explain JWST observations of the sub-Neptune TOI-270 d

Matthew C. Nixon, R. Sander Somers, Arjun B. Savel +9

Sub-Neptunes with substantial atmospheres may possess magma oceans in contact with the overlying gas, with chemical interactions between the atmosphere and magma playing an importa…

astro-ph.EP2025

A Thick Volatile Atmosphere on the Ultrahot Super-Earth TOI-561 b

Johanna K. Teske, Nicole L. Wallack, Anjali A. A. Piette +10

Ultrashort-period (USP) exoplanets -- with R and periods 1 day -- are expected to be stripped of volatile atmospheres by intense host star irradiation…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 6 cited

Volatile-rich evolution of molten super-Earth L 98-59 d

Harrison Nicholls, Tim Lichtenberg, Richard D. Chatterjee +3

Small low-density exoplanets are sculpted by strong stellar irradiation, but their primordial compositions and subsequent evolution are still unknown. Two often-considered scenario…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 5 cited

AGNI: A radiative-convective model for lava planet atmospheres

Harrison Nicholls, Raymond Pierrehumbert, Tim Lichtenberg

It is important that we are able to accurately model the atmospheres of (exo)planets. This is because atmospheres play a central role in setting a planet's thermochemical environme…