Sequencing Silicates in the Spitzer Infrared Spectrograph Debris Disk Catalog. I. Methodology for Unsupervised Clustering by Cicero X. Lu, Tushar Mittal, Christine H. Chen, Alexis Y. Li, Kadin Worthen, B. A. Sargent, Carey M. Lisse, G. C. Sloan, Dean C. Hines, Dan M. Watson, Isabel Rebollido, Bin B. Ren, Joel D. Green

“…Debris disks, which consist of dust, planetesimals, planets, and gas, offer a unique window into the mineralogical composition of their parent bodies, especially during the critical phase of terrestrial planet formation spanning 10 yr to a few hundred million years. …”
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Direct imaging of exoplanets: Legacy and prospects by Chauvin, Gael

“…It is also important to develop dedicated instrumentation and techniques to study in their totality the population of giant and terrestrial planets, but also to reveal in the near future the first biological markers of life in the atmospheres of terrestrial planets. …”
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2-D numerical experiments of thermal convection of highly viscous fluids under strong adiabatic compression: implications on mantle convection of super-Earths with various sizes by Masanori Kameyama

“…The activity of hot plumes originating from the core–mantle boundary is significantly suppressed in the terrestrial planets whose mass is larger than the Earth’s by a factor of about 3 regardless of the model geometries. …”
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Planetary formation and early phases by Crida, Aurélien

“…Finally, gas accretion proceeds on ten Earth mass solid cores.Once the gas disk is dissipated, giant planets may form satellites from massive rings, the terrestrial planets assemble from smaller embryos, and global dynamical instabilities give the planetary systems their final architecture.…”
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Most Super-Earths Have Less Than 3% Water by James G. Rogers, Caroline Dorn, Vivasvaan Aditya Raj, Hilke E. Schlichting, Edward D. Young

“…This mechanism has also been hypothesised to explain Earth's water content, possibly pointing to a unified channel for the origins of water on small terrestrial planets.…”
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Solid–liquid phase change in planetary cores by Huguet, Ludovic, Kriaa, Quentin, Alboussière, Thierry,  Le Bars, Michael

“…In particular, they take place in the iron core of terrestrial planets and moons, profoundly influencing their dynamics and magnetic field generation. …”
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Fluid dynamics of planetary differentiation by Deguen, Renaud, Huguet, Ludovic, Landeau, Maylis, Lherm, Victor, Maller, Augustin, Wacheul, Jean-Baptiste

“…The basic structure of the terrestrial planets—an iron-rich metallic core surrounded by a silicate mantle—was established during their accretion, when widespread melting allowed the metal and silicate phases to separate. …”
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Interior Convection Regime, Host Star Luminosity, and Predicted Atmospheric CO2 Abundance in Terrestrial Exoplanets by Antonin Affholder, Stéphane Mazevet, Boris Sauterey, Dániel Apai, Régis Ferrière

“…Terrestrial planets in the habitable zone (HZ) of Sun-like stars are priority targets for detection and observation by the next generation of space telescopes. …”
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