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. 2019 Apr 29;116(20):9723–9728. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1812905116

Fig. 4.

Fig. 4.

Atmospheric escape velocities versus surface equilibrium temperature. Data from ref. 60. Color coding is the bulk density of planet. Many super-Earths and sub-Neptunes are not expected to retain a H2-He–dominated envelope over a billion-year timescale.