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An example plot for the global modeling of HD 2...

An example plot for the global modeling of HD 209458, the first exoplanetary system with...

Xian-Yu Wang et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1008 1

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Sky-projected obliquity as a function of orbita...

Sky-projected obliquity as a function of orbital eccentricity, shown separately for sub-...

Xian-Yu Wang et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1008 1

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ZTF image sequences of 3I before and after peri...

ZTF image sequences of 3I before and after perihelion. Panel (a) shows the preperihelion...

Bin Liu et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1008 1

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Normalized radial surface-brightness profiles o...

Normalized radial surface-brightness profiles of the comet at 16 epochs. The profiles ar...

Bin Liu et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1008 1

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Effective scattering cross section as a functio...

Effective scattering cross section as a function of heliocentric distance measured in pr...

Bin Liu et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1008 1

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FWHM of the dust tail as a function of distance...

FWHM of the dust tail as a function of distance from the nucleus on 2026 January 18. Pos...

Bin Liu et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1008 1

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Dust mass-loss rate as a function of heliocentr...

Dust mass-loss rate as a function of heliocentric distance. Filled circles and filled sq...

Bin Liu et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1008 1

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Radial g − r color profiles of 3I on 2025 Novem...

Radial g − r color profiles of 3I on 2025 November 29 and 2026 January 18. The horizonta...

Bin Liu et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1008 1

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Local sublimation lifetimes and sublimation dis...

Local sublimation lifetimes and sublimation distances of icy grains. Top: local sublimat...

Bin Liu et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1008 1

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Normalized surface-brightness profiles extracte...

Normalized surface-brightness profiles extracted perpendicular to the projected Sun–come...

Bin Liu et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1008 1

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Equilibrium temperature of compact spherical ic...

Equilibrium temperature of compact spherical icy grains as a function of grain radius. T...

Bin Liu et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1008 1

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Left: size-loss rate ﹩\left|da/dt\right|﹩ as a ...

Left: size-loss rate ﹩\left|da/dt\right|﹩ as a function of heliocentric distance for 10 ...

Bin Liu et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1008 1

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Comparison between observed water-production ra...

Comparison between observed water-production rates and the water production estimated fr...

Bin Liu et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1008 1

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A summary of in situ measurements during the HC...

A summary of in situ measurements during the HCS crossing of Solar Orbiter from 2023 Apr...

Keiichi Ogasawara et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1008 1

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Scatter plots to compare key heavy-ion paramete...

Scatter plots to compare key heavy-ion parameters during the entire HCS crossing event a...

Keiichi Ogasawara et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1008 1

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(a) Schematic diagram showing locations of the ...

(a) Schematic diagram showing locations of the Earth and Solar Orbiter in the solar ecli...

Keiichi Ogasawara et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1008 1

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Predicted primary-beam power for the true sourc...

Predicted primary-beam power for the true source location and closest alias locations as...

Hans S. Hopkins et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1008 1

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The correlation coefficient R(n, ns) (Equation ...

The correlation coefficient R(n, ns) (Equation (6)) plotted in equatorial (R.A., decl.) ...

Hans S. Hopkins et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1008 1

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The deviation of an alias’s path from a path of...

The deviation of an alias’s path from a path of constant decl. In this example, CHORD is...

Hans S. Hopkins et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1008 1

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A map of the log correlation coefficients for t...

A map of the log correlation coefficients for the case of a source near the north pole. ...

Hans S. Hopkins et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1008 1

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Left: the correlation coefficients given by Equ...

Left: the correlation coefficients given by Equation (8) with CHORD pointing straight up...

Hans S. Hopkins et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1008 1

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An illustration of the 1σ, 3σ, and 5σ contours ...

An illustration of the 1σ, 3σ, and 5σ contours of the two-dimensional PDF of the matched...

Hans S. Hopkins et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1008 1

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How the northern alias’s correlation coefficien...

How the northern alias’s correlation coefficient changes depending on how much CHORD’s p...

Hans S. Hopkins et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1008 1

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The severity of aliasing as a function of the s...

The severity of aliasing as a function of the source’s position within the primary beam....

Hans S. Hopkins et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1008 1

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The relationship between the alias correlation ...

The relationship between the alias correlation coefficient and the direction that CHORD ...

Hans S. Hopkins et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1008 1

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