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A Window for Water-hydrogen Demixing on Warm Metal-rich Sub-Neptunes

  • Authors: Caroline Piaulet-Ghorayeb, Daniel P. Thorngren, Eliza M.-R. Kempton, Justin Lipper, Leslie Rogers, Fernanda Correa Horta, Shi Lin Sun

Caroline Piaulet-Ghorayeb et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal 1006 .

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Caption: Figure 2.

Illustration of the workflow for the construction of coupled interior-atmosphere models with ATHENAIA. For each composition, atmosphere models are calculated with SCARLET (top left) and interior models following D. Thorngren & J. J. Fortney (2019). We couple them with ATHENAIA by finding the Rref (atmosphere model) and ﹩{T}_{{\rm{mod}}}﹩ (interior model) that minimize δTPR (see Equation (5)). The radius at 20 mbar is extracted to construct constant-composition mass–radius curves, while the T–P profile of the envelope is used to evaluate the stability to demixing by comparing to the corresponding H-H2O coexistence curve (dashed). Finally (right panel), given planetary mass and radius, the range of potential compositions is mapped to fenv − Zenv space (red) and compared to the map of conditions where envelopes are (un)stable against demixing (blue).

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