Publications

Publications that use Aragog or the original SPIDER code:

Bower et al. (2022). Retention of water in terrestrial magma oceans and carbon-rich early atmospheres. The Planetary Science Journal, 3(4), 93.
Lichtenberg et al. (2021). Vertically resolved magma-ocean protoatmosphere evolution: H₂, H₂O, CO₂, CH₄, CO, O₂, and N₂ as primary absorbers. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, e2020JE006711.
Spaargaren et al. (2020). The influence of bulk composition on long-term interior-atmosphere evolution of terrestrial exoplanets. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 643, A44.
Bower et al. (2019). Linking the evolution of terrestrial interiors and an early outgassed atmosphere to astrophysical observations. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 631, A103.
Bower et al. (2018). Numerical solution of a non-linear conservation law applicable to the interior dynamics of partially molten planets. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 274, 49 to 62.

Equation-of-state tables

The pressure-entropy lookup tables that Aragog reads at startup are produced by the PALEOS code:

Attia et al. (2026). PALEOS: Multiphase Equations of State and Mass-Radius Relations for Exoplanet Interiors (submitted to A&A; arXiv:2605.03741).

For the PALEOS file format and how the tables are wired into the run directory, see Reference: data.

The bundled radiogenic heating cocktail uses the half-lives, isotopic abundances, and per-isotope specific heat-production values from:

Ruedas (2017). Radioactive heat production of six geologically important nuclides. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 18(9), 3530 to 3541.

Aragog is part of all publications of the PROTEUS Framework. The current list is maintained on SciX.