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  1. Reflation: redox-driven atmospheric inflation as a tracer of super-Earth geochemistry

    Article • July 2026, Copernicus GmbH

    Tim Lichtenberg

  2. Geophysical and atmospheric implications of fO2-dependent melting on rocky exoplanets

    Article • July 2026, Copernicus GmbH

    Tim Lichtenberg

  3. PALEOS: Multiphase Equations of State for Rocky Planet Interiors

    Article • July 2026, Copernicus GmbH

    Tim Lichtenberg

  4. Redox sensitivity of the surface conditions and climate state of the Hadean Earth

    Article • July 2026, Copernicus GmbH

    Tim Lichtenberg

  5. Terrestrial analogue research for finding extraterrestrial life and how to use AI to find research gaps

    Article • July 2026, Copernicus GmbH

    Tim Lichtenberg

  6. Most rocky sub-Neptunes are molten: mapping the solidification shoreline for gas dwarf exoplanets

    Article • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, June 2026, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Tim Lichtenberg

  7. The Goldilocks Problem for Detecting Water in Terrestrial Planets: Constraining Water Abundances in the Mid-infrared with LIFE

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, May 2026, American Astronomical Society

    Tim Lichtenberg

  8. Coupled atmospHere Interior modeL Intercomparison (CHILI)—Protocol Version 1.0: A CUISINES Intercomparison Project of Magma Ocean Models

    Article • The Planetary Science Journal, May 2026, American Astronomical Society

    Tim Lichtenberg

  9. Onset of Habitable Conditions on the Hadean Earth Set by Feedback between Tides and Greenhouse Forcing

    Article • The Planetary Science Journal, April 2026, American Astronomical Society

    Tim Lichtenberg

  10. Water Enrichment of Forming Sub-Neptune Envelopes Limited by Oxygen Exhaustion

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, March 2026, American Astronomical Society

    Tim Lichtenberg

  11. Volatile-rich evolution of molten super-Earth L 98-59 d

    Article • Nature Astronomy, March 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Tim Lichtenberg

  12. Mantle Convection and Nightside Volcanism on Lava World K2-141 b

    Article • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, February 2026, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Tim Lichtenberg

  13. A Thick Volatile Atmosphere on the Ultrahot Super-Earth TOI-561 b

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal Letters, December 2025, American Astronomical Society

    Tim Lichtenberg

  14. Magma Ocean Interactions Can Explain JWST Observations of the Sub-Neptune TOI-270 d

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, December 2025, American Astronomical Society

    Tim Lichtenberg

  15. Constraining exoplanet interiors using observations of their atmospheres

    Article • Science, October 2025, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Tim Lichtenberg

  16. Self-limited tidal heating and prolonged magma oceans in the L 98-59 system

    Article • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, July 2025, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Tim Lichtenberg

  17. Super-Earth lava planet from birth to observation: photochemistry, tidal heating, and volatile-rich formation

    Article • July 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Tim Lichtenberg

  18. Absence of a Runaway Greenhouse Limit on Lava Planets

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, July 2025, American Astronomical Society

    Tim Lichtenberg

  19. A Terminology and Quantitative Framework for Assessing the Habitability of Solar System and Extraterrestrial Worlds

    Article • The Planetary Science Journal, July 2025, American Astronomical Society

    Tim Lichtenberg

  20. Bioverse: Potentially Observable Exoplanet Biosignature Patterns under the UV Threshold Hypothesis for the Origin of Life

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, June 2025, American Astronomical Society

    Tim Lichtenberg

  21. AGNI: A radiative-convective model for lava planet atmospheres

    Article • The Journal of Open Source Software, May 2025, The Open Journal

    Tim Lichtenberg

  22. Impact of varying redox states on crystallization and atmospheric composition of rocky exoplanets.

    Article • May 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Tim Lichtenberg

  23. The PLATO mission

    Article • Experimental Astronomy, April 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Tim Lichtenberg, Adriana Valio, João MP Coelho

  24. The Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE): synergy with HWO & protoplanet detection

    Article • March 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Tim Lichtenberg

  25. Modelling surface mineral diversity of atmosphere-free rocky exoplanets for spectroscopic characterisation

    Article • March 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Tim Lichtenberg

  26. Tides on Lava Worlds: Application to Close-in Exoplanets and the Early Earth–Moon System

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, January 2025, American Astronomical Society

    Tim Lichtenberg

  27. Large Interferometer for Exoplanets (LIFE): characterizing the mid-infrared thermal emission of terrestrial exoplanets

    Article • January 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Tim Lichtenberg

  28. Reliable Detections of Atmospheres on Rocky Exoplanets with Photometric JWST Phase Curves

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal Letters, January 2025, American Astronomical Society

    Tim Lichtenberg

  29. Super-Earths and Earth-like exoplanets

    Article • January 2025, Elsevier

    Tim Lichtenberg

  30. Convective shutdown in the atmospheres of lava worlds

    Article • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, December 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Tim Lichtenberg

  31. Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE)

    Article • EAS Publications Series, December 2024, EDP Sciences

    Tim Lichtenberg

  32. Magma Ocean Evolution at Arbitrary Redox State

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Planets, December 2024, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Tim Lichtenberg

  33. Toward a Unified Injection Model of Short-lived Radioisotopes in N-body Simulations of Star-forming Regions

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, November 2024, American Astronomical Society

    Tim Lichtenberg

  34. Database of Candidate Targets for the LIFE Mission

    Article • Research Notes of the AAS, October 2024, American Astronomical Society

    Tim Lichtenberg

  35. Geodynamics of Super‐Earth GJ 486b

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Planets, October 2024, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Tim Lichtenberg

  36. The Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE): a space mission for mid-infrared nulling interferometry

    Article • August 2024, SPIE

    Tim Lichtenberg

  37. A roadmap for the atmospheric characterization of terrestrial exoplanets with JWST

    Article • Nature Astronomy, July 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Tim Lichtenberg

  38. Characterization of Exoplanets with LIFE (Large Interferometer For Exoplanets)

    Article • July 2024, Copernicus GmbH

    Tim Lichtenberg

  39. Interior Evolution of Magma Oceans Exoplanets

    Article • July 2024, Copernicus GmbH

    Tim Lichtenberg

  40. Devolatilization of extrasolar planetesimals by 60Fe and 26Al heating

    Article • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, February 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Tim Lichtenberg

  41. Distinguishing Oceans of Water from Magma on Mini-Neptune K2-18b

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal Letters, February 2024, American Astronomical Society

    Tim Lichtenberg

  42. Bioverse: The Habitable Zone Inner Edge Discontinuity as an Imprint of Runaway Greenhouse Climates on Exoplanet Demographics

    Article • The Planetary Science Journal, January 2024, American Astronomical Society

    Tim Lichtenberg

  43. The distribution of volatile elements during rocky planet formation

    Article • Frontiers in Earth Science, November 2023, Frontiers

    Tim Lichtenberg

  44. Interior dynamics of super-Earth 55 Cancri e

    Article • EAS Publications Series, September 2023, EDP Sciences

    Tim Lichtenberg

  45. Rocky Planet or Water World? Observability of Low-density Lava World Atmospheres

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, August 2023, American Astronomical Society

    Tim Lichtenberg

  46. Photoevaporation versus enrichment in the cradle of the Sun

    Article • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, August 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Tim Lichtenberg

  47. Exploring hemispheric tectonics on tidally locked super-Earths

    Article • May 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Tim Lichtenberg

  48. Large Interferometer for Exoplanets (LIFE): characterizing the mid-infrared thermal emission of terrestrial exoplanet atmospheres

    Article • May 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Tim Lichtenberg

  49. Tectonics and magma oceanography of rocky exoplanets

    Article • May 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Tim Lichtenberg

  50. Short-lived radioisotope enrichment in star-forming regions from stellar winds and supernovae

    Article • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, March 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Tim Lichtenberg

  51. Imaging of exocomets with infrared interferometry

    Article • EAS Publications Series, March 2023, EDP Sciences

    Tim Lichtenberg

  52. Leaky dust traps: How fragmentation impacts dust filtering by planets

    Article • EAS Publications Series, January 2023, EDP Sciences

    Tim Lichtenberg

  53. Rapid formation of exoplanetesimals revealed by white dwarfs

    Article • Nature Astronomy, November 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Tim Lichtenberg

  54. Reduced Late Bombardment on Rocky Exoplanets around M Dwarfs

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal Letters, October 2022, American Astronomical Society

    Tim Lichtenberg

  55. CO2 Ocean Bistability on Terrestrial Exoplanets

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Planets, October 2022, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Tim Lichtenberg

  56. Ariel: Enabling planetary science across light-years

    Article • September 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Director UCL CSED Giovanna Tinetti, Tim Lichtenberg

  57. Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE)

    Article • EAS Publications Series, August 2022, EDP Sciences

    STScI Scientist Julien H Girard, Tim Lichtenberg

  58. Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE)

    Article • EAS Publications Series, August 2022, EDP Sciences

    Tim Lichtenberg

  59. Prevalence of short-lived radioactive isotopes across exoplanetary systems inferred from polluted white dwarfs

    Article • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, June 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Tim Lichtenberg

  60. Exploring hemispheric tectonics on tidally-locked super-Earths

    Article • March 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Tim Lichtenberg

  61. New Evidence for Wet Accretion of Inner Solar System Planetesimals from Meteorites Chelyabinsk and Benenitra

    Article • The Planetary Science Journal, December 2021, American Astronomical Society

    Tim Lichtenberg

  62. Inferring Shallow Surfaces on Sub-Neptune Exoplanets with JWST

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal Letters, November 2021, American Astronomical Society

    Tim Lichtenberg

  63. Hidden Water in Magma Ocean Exoplanets

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal Letters, November 2021, American Astronomical Society

    Tim Lichtenberg

  64. A Multispecies Pseudoadiabat for Simulating Condensable-rich Exoplanet Atmospheres

    Article • The Planetary Science Journal, October 2021, American Astronomical Society

    Tim Lichtenberg

  65. Beyond Runaway: Initiation of the Post-runaway Greenhouse State on Rocky Exoplanets

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, October 2021, American Astronomical Society

    Tim Lichtenberg

  66. Redox Hysteresis of Super-Earth Exoplanets from Magma Ocean Circulation

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal Letters, June 2021, American Astronomical Society

    Tim Lichtenberg

  67. System-level Fractionation of Carbon from Disk and Planetesimal Processing

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal Letters, May 2021, American Astronomical Society

    Tim Lichtenberg

  68. Ariel planetary interiors White Paper

    Article • Experimental Astronomy, May 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Tim Lichtenberg

  69. Hemispheric Tectonics on Super-Earth LHS 3844b

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal Letters, February 2021, American Astronomical Society

    Tim Lichtenberg

  70. Bifurcation of planetary building blocks during Solar System formation

    Article • Science, January 2021, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Tim Lichtenberg

  71. Vertically resolved magma ocean–protoatmosphere evolution: H 2 , H 2 O, CO 2 ...

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Planets, January 2021, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Tim Lichtenberg

  72. Atmospheric speciation of rocky planets from magma ocean outgassing

    Article • October 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Tim Lichtenberg

  73. Earliest isotopic and chemical bifurcation of planetary building blocks

    Article • October 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Tim Lichtenberg

  74. Interior dynamics of tidally locked super-Earths: The case of LHS 3844b

    Article • October 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Tim Lichtenberg

  75. Implications of magma oceans for astrophysical observations: mass-radius and atmospheric composition

    Article • March 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Tim Lichtenberg

  76. Interior dynamics of tidally-locked super-Earths: the case of LHS 3844b

    Article • March 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Tim Lichtenberg

  77. A water budget dichotomy of rocky protoplanets from 26Al-heating

    Article • Nature Astronomy, February 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Tim Lichtenberg

  78. Magma ascent in planetesimals: Control by grain size

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, February 2019, Elsevier

    Tim Lichtenberg

  79. Direct imaging of molten protoplanets in nearby young stellar associations

    Article • EAS Publications Series, January 2019, EDP Sciences

    Tim Lichtenberg

  80. Impact splash chondrule formation during planetesimal recycling

    Article • Icarus, March 2018, Elsevier

    Tim Lichtenberg

  81. Late metal–silicate separation on the IAB parent asteroid: Constraints from combined W and Pt isotopes and thermal modelling

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, January 2018, Elsevier

    Tim Lichtenberg

  82. Was Planet 9 captured in the Sun’s natal star-forming region?

    Article • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters, September 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Tim Lichtenberg

  83. Isotopic enrichment of forming planetary systems from supernova pollution

    Article • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, August 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Tim Lichtenberg

  84. The effects of short-lived radionuclides and porosity on the early thermo-mechanical evolution of planetesimals

    Article • Icarus, August 2016, Elsevier

    Tim Lichtenberg

  85. Modeling gravitational instabilities in self-gravitating protoplanetary disks with adaptive mesh refinement techniques

    Article • EAS Publications Series, June 2015, EDP Sciences

    Tim Lichtenberg