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Sarah E. Moran

1 articles · 10 co-authors · latest: 2026-06-04

Cosmic Tan: How Stellar Flares Repaint Water Worlds

Atmospheres of many sub-Neptunes are shrouded in dense organic hazes that hide their true composition. In lab experiments, such hazes were recreated from water vapor, methane, and carbon dioxide, then irradiated with ultraviolet light, mimicking flares from red dwarfs. It turned out that after irrad
arXiv:2606.06691v1 · 2026-06-04