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The Influences of Hydrogen-Silicate-Iron Miscibility on the Demographics of Sub-Neptunes and Super-Earths

Edward D. Young, Aaron Werlen · 2026

Models based on variable miscibility among hydrogen, molten silicate, and molten iron, coupled with atmospheric escape, can reproduce the observed occurrence density structure of sub-Neptunes and supe…

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Thermal instability and rocky planetesimal formation in the inner regions of protoplanetary disks

Ryo Kato, Takahiro Ueda, Satoshi Okuzumi · 2026

The inner regions of protoplanetary disks are promising formation sites of rocky planetesimals. Theoretical studies have proposed a scenario in which thermal ionization activates the magnetorotational…

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Estimating the Kinetic Energy Spectrum from the Second-Order Velocity Structure Function using a Regularized Fitting Approach

Ayantika Bhattacharjee, Spencer Jones, Dhruv Balwada, Shane Elipot, Manuel Gutierrez-Villanueva · 2026

Ocean turbulence plays a key role in shaping large-scale circulation, heat uptake, and biogeochemical processes. The kinetic energy (KE) wavenumber spectrum is a fundamental diagnostic, quantifying ho…

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Dynamics of East Atlantic seed vortex populations in global km-scale models

Ben Maybee, Francesca Morris, Juliane Schwendike, Ashar Aslam, Calum Scullion, Richard W. Jones, Dasha Shchepanovska, Kevin I Hodges · 2026

Africa is the primary source of cyclonic vortices over the tropical Atlantic. Over both land and sea, these vortices are entwined with deep convective activity, with the majority being African Easterl…

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The Influence of the Fractal Dimension on Dust Evolution in Protoplanetary Disks

J. E. Scholl, C. P. Dullemond, C. Dominik · 2026

Context: During the first stages of dust coagulation in protoplanetary disks, the dust aggregates are expected to have a high degree of porosity. Most models of dust growth, however, do not take this …

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Exploring the conditions for forming planetesimals by the streaming instability and planetary systems by pebble accretion

Anders Johansen (University of Copenhagen / Lund University), Wladimir Lyra (New Mexico State University) · 2026

The streaming instability and pebble accretion are two physical mechanisms with demonstrated potentials to drive, respectively, the formation of planetesimals and the growth of planetary systems conta…

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A multifluid approach for polydisperse pebble accretion: From particles to fluids, establishing the multifluid framework

T. J. Konijn, S.-J. Paardekooper · 2026

Pebble accretion offers an efficient pathway to form planets, driven by a constant supply of inward drifting mass and an accretion efficiency enhanced by gas drag. While most studies assume a single p…

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Suppression of Resonant Overstability at Sharp Migration Gradients

Konstantin Batygin, Ian R. Brunton, Alessandro Morbidelli · 2026

Mean-motion resonances are expected to frequently arise at the inner edges of protoplanetary disks, where planet-disk interactions facilitate large-scale orbital convergence. Under certain conditions,…

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Evaluating local climate in global storm-resolving models with the K\"oppen-Geiger classification

Chiel C. van Heerwaarden, Menno A. Veerman, Imme Benedict, Lukas Brunner, Edgar Dolores-Tesillos, Emanuel Dutra, Erich Fischer, Junhong Lee, Olivia Martius, Xabier Pedruzo-Bagazgoitia, Ulrike Proske, Sarah N. Warnau, Jonathan D. Willie, Cathy Hohenegger · 2026

Global storm-resolving models aspire to become digital twins of the Earth, delivering information at the local scale at which humans experience climate. We evaluated how well two such models, ICON and…

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Oxygen Isotopic Compositions of Chondrules as Probes of Solar Protoplanetary Disk Formation

Sota Arakawa, Takayuki Ushikubo, Ryosuke T. Tominaga · 2026

Chondrules are thought to have formed during transient flash-heating events in dust-enriched regions of the solar protoplanetary disk. Although laboratory studies have characterized the oxygen isotopi…

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Accelerating unrest at Campi Flegrei signals a critical transition within the next decade

Davide Zaccagnino, Didier Sornette, Antonio Giovanni Iaccarino, Matteo Picozzi · 2026

Campi Flegrei, a large caldera in southern Italy, is among the most hazardous volcanic systems on Earth, directly threatening over one million people. Since 2005, it has entered a phase of acceleratin…

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A magnetotelluric image of the Curnamona Province and the adjacent Delamerian Orogen margin: new insights into the crustal architecture

Wenping Jiang, Michael Doublier, Russell Korsch, Andy Clark, Malcolm Nicoll, Adrian Hitchman, Yanbo Cheng · 2026

We have used new magnetotelluric data collected in the Curnamona Province and the adjacent part of the Delamerian Orogen margin to image electrical conductivity structures and to inform the understand…

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A Monte Carlo method for tracking dust properties during coagulation in protoplanetary disks

Nerea Gurrutxaga, Vignesh Vaikundaraman, Joanna Drazkowska · 2026

Dust growth is a crucial step in planet formation, and the efficiency of this process is controlled by the physical and chemical properties of the dust grains. Monte Carlo-based methods are commonly u…

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ORCHARD: A General Planetary Evolution Code

Roberto Tejada Arevalo, Adam Burrows, Ankan Sur, Yubo Su · 2026

We present \texttt{ORCHARD}, a publicly available planetary evolution code based on the gas giant evolution code, \texttt{APPLE}, capable of modeling the evolution and structures of terrestrial, super…

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Mars Thermospheric Polar Warming at Aphelion: Dynamical Processes Studied Using M-GITM

Jia-Zheng Li, Stephen W. Bougher, Cheng Li, Erdal Yigit · 2026

Aphelion Thermospheric Polar Warming (TPW), first identified in 2024 by Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) observations, is a dynamical heating phenomenon in the Martian atmosphere that ex…

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Uncovering the Rapidly Evolving Orbits of the Dynamic TOI-201 System

Ismael Mireles, Solene Ulmer-Moll, Donald Liveoak, Diana Dragomir, Judith Korth, Alexander Venner, Karen A. Collins, Amaury H.M.J. Triaud, Tristan Guillot, Antoine Petit, Theron Carmichael, Sarah Millholland, Tim Hallatt, Hannu Parviainen, Hugh P. Osborn, David Rapetti, Thomas A. Baycroft, Siddharth Bhatnagar, Francois Bouchy, Radka Dancikova, Pedro Figueira, Monika Lendl, Stephane Udry, Peter Wheatley, Lyu Abe, Abdelkrim Agabi, Matteo Beltrame, Philippe Bendjoya, Vincent Deloupy, Djamel Mekarnia, Francois-Xavier Schmider, Olga Suarez, Khalid Barkaoui, Keith Horne, Felipe Murgas, Enric Palle, Richard P. Schwarz, Ramotholo Sefako, Avi Shporer, Gregor Srdoc, Chris Stockdale, Francis P. Wilkin, Joel D. Hartman, Lauren A. Sgro, Thiam-Guan Tan, Jon M. Jenkins, Attila Bodi, David Havell, Darren Rivett, Ian Transom · 2026

Studying planetary interactions in exoplanet systems informs theories of planet formation and evolution, providing essential context for understanding our own solar system. We combine spectroscopy, tr…

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A very eccentric brown dwarf coplanar to a warm Jupiter and a hot super Earth

Matias I. Jones, Luca Naponiello, Trifon Trifonov, Rafael Brahm, Gabriele Pichierri, Lorena Acuna-Aguirre, Robert J. De Rosa, Marcelo Tala Pinto, Aldo S. Bonomo, Luigi Mancini, Alessandro Sozzetti, Yared Reinarz, Alessandro Morbidelli, Nestor Espinoza, Giovanni Rosotti, Eric L. Nielsen, Stefan Y. Stefanov, Thomas Henning, Andres Jordan, Jan Eberhardt, Artie Hatzes, Leonardo Vanzi, Jan Janik, Petr Kabath · 2026

In transiting planetary systems, where planetary sizes are accurately determined from transit observations, the presence of transit timing variations (TTVs), especially when combined with radial veloc…

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Characterization of the Volatile Properties of 133P/Elst-Pizarro and Other Main-Belt Comets with JWST and Ground-Based Observations

Henry H. Hsieh, John W. Noonan, Michael S. P. Kelley, Dennis Bodewits, Jana Pittichova, Audrey Thirouin, Marco Micheli, Scott S. Sheppard, Colin O. Chandler, Theodore Kareta, Colin Snodgrass, Richard E. Cannon, Brian P. Murphy · 2026

We report results from an analysis of the volatile composition and evolution of main-belt comet (MBC) 133P/Elst-Pizarro using JWST NIRSpec and NIRCam observations and ground-based observations during …

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Material coherence and life cycle of a wildfire-generated stratospheric vortex

F. Andrade-Canto, F.J. Beron-Vera · 2026

Pyro-cumulonimbus convection associated with extreme wildfires can generate long-lived vortical structures in the stratosphere. These structures have been described as coherent, yet a rigorous materia…

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MINDS: Intertwined evolution of dust and gas in large planet-forming disks. A diversity driven by halted pebble drift?

Benoit Tabone, Milou Temmink, Laurens B. F. M. Waters, Ewine F. van Dishoeck, Andrew Sellek, Pacome Esteve, Nicolas T. Kurtovic, Inga Kamp, Thomas Henning, Danny Gasman, Sierra L. Grant, Jozsef Varga, Alice Guerras, Dmitry Semenov, Aditya M. Arabhavi, Alessio Caratti o Garatti, Anne Dutrey, Edwige Chapillon, Stephane Guilloteau, Manuel Gudel, Hyerin Jang, Till Kaeufer, Jayatee Kanwar, Goran Olofsson, Giulia Perotti, Vincent Pietu, Thomas P. Ray, Marissa Vlasblom · 2026

(Abridged) We aim to investigate the inner regions of large and massive disks orbiting T Tauri stars, thought to be progenitors of systems with wide-orbit planets and possible cases of halted pebble d…

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