Extrasolar cosmochemistry

M Jura, ED Young - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary …, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Evidence is now compelling that elements heavier than helium in many white dwarf
atmospheres have accumulated by accretion from orbiting rocky bodies, often larger than …

Experimental methods for warm dense matter research

K Falk - High Power Laser Science and Engineering, 2018 - cambridge.org
The study of structure, thermodynamic state, equation of state (EOS) and transport properties
of warm dense matter (WDM) has become one of the key aspects of laboratory astrophysics …

Habitability and biosignatures of Hycean worlds

N Madhusudhan, AAA Piette… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate a new class of habitable planets composed of water-rich interiors with
massive oceans underlying H 2-rich atmospheres, referred to here as Hycean worlds. With …

Metastability of diamond ramp-compressed to 2 terapascals

A Lazicki, D McGonegle, JR Rygg, DG Braun, DC Swift… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Carbon is the fourth-most prevalent element in the Universe and essential for all known life.
In the elemental form it is found in multiple allotropes, including graphite, diamond and …

The imprint of exoplanet formation history on observable present-day spectra of hot Jupiters

C Mordasini, R van Boekel, P Mollière… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The composition of a planet's atmosphere is determined by its formation, evolution, and
present-day insolation. A planet's spectrum therefore may hold clues on its origins. We …

Impact of space weather on climate and habitability of terrestrial-type exoplanets

VS Airapetian, R Barnes, O Cohen… - International Journal of …, 2020 - cambridge.org
The search for life in the Universe is a fundamental problem of astrobiology and modern
science. The current progress in the detection of terrestrial-type exoplanets has opened a …

Can we constrain the interior structure of rocky exoplanets from mass and radius measurements?

C Dorn, A Khan, K Heng, JAD Connolly… - Astronomy & …, 2015 - aanda.org
Aims. We present an inversion method based on Bayesian analysis to constrain the interior
structure of terrestrial exoplanets, in the form of chemical composition of the mantle and core …

Ramp compression of diamond to five terapascals

RF Smith, JH Eggert, R Jeanloz, TS Duffy, DG Braun… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
The recent discovery of more than a thousand planets outside our Solar System,, together
with the significant push to achieve inertially confined fusion in the laboratory, has prompted …

Chemical conditions on Hycean worlds

N Madhusudhan, JI Moses, F Rigby, E Barrier - Faraday Discussions, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Traditionally, the search for life on exoplanets has been predominantly focused on rocky
exoplanets. The recently proposed Hycean worlds have the potential to significantly expand …

Uncertainty-aware molecular dynamics from Bayesian active learning for phase transformations and thermal transport in SiC

Y Xie, J Vandermause, S Ramakers… - npj Computational …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Machine learning interatomic force fields are promising for combining high
computational efficiency and accuracy in modeling quantum interactions and simulating …