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Three physically distinct mechanisms are as follows.

Thermal-tail escape, a bulk hydrodynamic wind, and nonthermal particle energization are three distinct channels; a detected tail need not distinguish them alone. Jeans escape and hydrodynamic atmospheric escape are both thermal mechanisms in the broad sense, but have different distribution functions and dynamical assumptions.

Comparable hydrostatic thermal escape requires comparable Jeans escape parameter $\lambda =G{M}_{p}m/(k_{B}T{R}_{\mathrm{exo}})$. For the same escaping species and $R_{\mathrm{exo}}\simeq R_p$,Thus Jupiter at 5 au needs an exobase temperature at least about thirty times Earth's at the same irradiation to have comparable Jeans escape flux.

For the inner planet, the usable EUV power is $\eta \pi R_{\mathrm{exo}}^2{F}_{\mathrm{EUV}}$. If the binding energy per unit escaping mass is $G{M}_p/R_p$, energy-limited atmospheric escape givesThe time to lose a fraction $x$ of the planetary mass is thereforeThis neglects Roche-lobe reduction, radiative cooling, changes in radius and flux, and the planet's orbital evolution. If the gas is lifted only from $R_{\mathrm{exo}}$, replace $R_p$ in the denominator by $R_{\mathrm{exo}}$.