Titlebook: Characterizing Stellar and Exoplanetary Environments; Helmut Lammer,Maxim Khodachenko Book 2015 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Auth

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Stellar Driven Evolution of Hydrogen-Dominated Atmospheres from Earth-Like to Super-Earth-Type Exoplnet atmospheres. We focus mainly on planets within the Earth- to super-Earth mass domain and consider both, thermal and nonthermal atmospheric escape processes. The type of thermal loss mechanism depends on the so-called escape parameter, which is the ratio of the gravitational energy of a particle