Potential long-term habitable conditions on planets with primordial H–He atmospheres - Nature.com

Modelling of Earth- or super-Earth-sized planets with a thick H–He atmosphere shows that the hydrogen collision-induced absorptions in the infrared wavelength can make the planet amenable to hosting surface liquid water for several billion years, thus creatin…

We simulate the gaseous envelope using a spherically symmetric model that solves the structure equations of a planets interior assuming hydrostatic equilibrium63,64,65: $$\frac{{{{\mathrm{d}}}}m}{{{… [+25601 chars]

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