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cosmic shoreline: a standalone construct

One name. One construct. A landmark on the map.

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Planetary science

empirical dividing line, set by escape velocity and stellar irradiation, separating bodies that keep atmospheres from those that lose them.

In planetary science, cosmic shoreline refers to empirical dividing line, set by escape velocity and stellar irradiation, separating bodies that keep atmospheres from those that lose them. This meaning comes from Zahnle (2017) in The Astrophysical Journal.[1]

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References

Zahnle, K. J., & Catling, D. C. (2017). The Cosmic Shoreline: The Evidence that Escape Determines which Planets Have Atmospheres, and what this May Mean for Proxima Centauri B. The Astrophysical Journal, 843(2), 122. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa7846

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