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When Stabilizing Feedbacks Wreak Havoc in Habitable Planets: Chaos at the Freezing Point in a Four-feedback Climate Model

  • Authors: Chaucer Langbert, Dániel Apai, Renu Malhotra

Chaucer Langbert et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1006 .

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Caption: Figure 7.

Largest Lyapunov exponent (LLE) across the four-feedback parameter space as a function of feedback strength c and activation temperature Tf. Columns show increasing stellar flux and rows show increasing normalized volcanic outgassing rate (V/W0). Warm colors indicate chaotic dynamics (positive LLE), while cool colors indicate regular attractors (negative LLE). The vertical dashed line marks the freezing point of water (273 K). Chaos is concentrated where strong stabilizing feedback (c ≲ −30 W m−2) activates near the ice–albedo transition, with the region of maximum chaos shifting toward lower stellar flux as volcanic outgassing increases.

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