Interplanetary Dust Ablation Seeds Silicate Clouds in Exoplanet Atmospheres

arXiv:2609.08960 · astro-ph.EP · Submitted 2026-09-08 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-08

Updated: 2026-09-08

Comments: 18 pages, 8 Figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Ablation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode

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