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Volumetric TDE rate as a function of redshift a...

Volumetric TDE rate as a function of redshift after applying all redshift-dependent rate...

Mitchell Karmen et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1006 1

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Scalings of all rate modifications as a functio...

Scalings of all rate modifications as a function of redshift: the BHMF scaling (NBH(z)),...

Mitchell Karmen et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1006 1

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Evolution of galaxy central surface density as ...

Evolution of galaxy central surface density as a function of redshift. Lines are solid w...

Mitchell Karmen et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1006 1

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Predicted observed TDE rates in the Vera Rubin ...

Predicted observed TDE rates in the Vera Rubin Observatory LSST. The left two panels ass...

Mitchell Karmen et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1006 1

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Evolution of the assumed TDE obscuration fracti...

Evolution of the assumed TDE obscuration fraction as a function of redshift, shown by th...

Mitchell Karmen et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1006 1

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Predicted observed TDE rates in the Roman HLTDS...

Predicted observed TDE rates in the Roman HLTDS, as described in Figure 6.

Mitchell Karmen et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1006 1

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The two SMBH mass functions used in this work a...

The two SMBH mass functions used in this work at z ∼ 0 through z = 6. The solid line sho...

Mitchell Karmen et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1006 1

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Predicted observed TDE rates in the JWST COSMOS...

Predicted observed TDE rates in the JWST COSMOS-Web survey. Rates are as described in Fi...

Mitchell Karmen et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1006 1

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Cumulative redshift distribution of TDEs observ...

Cumulative redshift distribution of TDEs observed by ZTF. The black line shows the obser...

Mitchell Karmen et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1006 1

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Exponential approximations to the BHMF “slope,”...

Exponential approximations to the BHMF “slope,” colored by exponent γ (Equation (23)). T...

Mitchell Karmen et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1006 1

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Left: number of TDEs detected in a flux-limited...

Left: number of TDEs detected in a flux-limited LSST survey vs. the exponent index of th...

Mitchell Karmen et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1006 1

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Two-layer model of 16 Psyche’s interior. Panel ...

Two-layer model of 16 Psyche’s interior. Panel (A): The core is assumed spherical. The c...

Anton I. Ermakov, The Planetary Science Journal 7 7

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Panel (A): Pole position of Psyche in the J2000...

Panel (A): Pole position of Psyche in the J2000 frame over a period of 10 yr, assuming h...

Anton I. Ermakov, The Planetary Science Journal 7 7

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Pole deviation over 4 yr computed for an ensemb...

Pole deviation over 4 yr computed for an ensemble of moments of inertia and initial pole...

Anton I. Ermakov, The Planetary Science Journal 7 7

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Panel (A): Histograms of the pole deviation wit...

Panel (A): Histograms of the pole deviation within the respective time periods. Panel (B...

Anton I. Ermakov, The Planetary Science Journal 7 7

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Obliquity history of triaxial Psyche over the p...

Obliquity history of triaxial Psyche over the past 10 My (A) and axisymmetic Psyche 1 My...

Anton I. Ermakov, The Planetary Science Journal 7 7

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Psyche’s shape in four views using the shape mo...

Psyche’s shape in four views using the shape model of M. Shepard et al. (2021). The surf...

Anton I. Ermakov, The Planetary Science Journal 7 7

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Amplitudes of the nutation terms as a function ...

Amplitudes of the nutation terms as a function of dynamic flattening, assuming the initi...

Anton I. Ermakov, The Planetary Science Journal 7 7

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Pole position of Vesta between our model and R....

Pole position of Vesta between our model and R. Park et al. (2025a) in J2000 frame. Time...

Anton I. Ermakov, The Planetary Science Journal 7 7

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Left: SED decomposition of the spatially resolv...

Left: SED decomposition of the spatially resolved components derived from GALFIT modelin...

Josephine F. W. Baggen et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1006 1

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Spectral energy distribution derived from our a...

Spectral energy distribution derived from our aperture photometry for A383-LRD1A (green ...

Josephine F. W. Baggen et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1006 1

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Left: delensed warped-pixel reconstruction of t...

Left: delensed warped-pixel reconstruction of the observed RGB images (F200W/F150W/F115W...

Josephine F. W. Baggen et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1006 1

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Top: GALFIT best-fit models for A383-LRD1B. For...

Top: GALFIT best-fit models for A383-LRD1B. For each filter, we show (from top to bottom...

Josephine F. W. Baggen et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1006 1

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Spectral energy distributions of the decomposed...

Spectral energy distributions of the decomposed red, blue, and residual components. Poin...

Josephine F. W. Baggen et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1006 1

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RGB image stamps constructed using filters F200...

RGB image stamps constructed using filters F200W, F150W, and F115W for the two lensed im...

Josephine F. W. Baggen et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1006 1

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