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Left: the equivalent widths (EWs) of the CaT li...

Left: the equivalent widths (EWs) of the CaT lines vs. the measured line-of-sight (radia...

C. Y. Tan et al, The Astrophysical Journal 979 2

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Left: spatial distribution of the spectroscopic...

Left: spatial distribution of the spectroscopically confirmed Leo VI member stars (circl...

C. Y. Tan et al, The Astrophysical Journal 979 2

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Left: the average density within the half-light...

Left: the average density within the half-light radius, ρ1/2, vs. distance of the perice...

C. Y. Tan et al, The Astrophysical Journal 979 2

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Diagnostic plots for Leo VI constructed with th...

Diagnostic plots for Leo VI constructed with the deeper follow-up DECam photometric data...

C. Y. Tan et al, The Astrophysical Journal 979 2

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Left: map of likely member stars in the vicinit...

Left: map of likely member stars in the vicinity of the Leo VI system, with stars colore...

C. Y. Tan et al, The Astrophysical Journal 979 2

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Left: the absolute V-band magnitude, MV, vs. th...

Left: the absolute V-band magnitude, MV, vs. the azimuthally averaged physical half-ligh...

C. Y. Tan et al, The Astrophysical Journal 979 2

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Jackknife test for the radial velocity paramete...

Jackknife test for the radial velocity parameters of Leo VI. The gray regions represent ...

C. Y. Tan et al, The Astrophysical Journal 979 2

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Left: spatial distribution of Leo VI and other ...

Left: spatial distribution of Leo VI and other potential members of the Crater-Leo infal...

C. Y. Tan et al, The Astrophysical Journal 979 2

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Left: the specific energy, E, vs. the square of...

Left: the specific energy, E, vs. the square of the specific angular momentum, L2, of Le...

C. Y. Tan et al, The Astrophysical Journal 979 2

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Distribution of the possible orbital poles of L...

Distribution of the possible orbital poles of Leo VI and the other possible members of t...

C. Y. Tan et al, The Astrophysical Journal 979 2

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The posterior distributions of Leo VI’s morphol...

The posterior distributions of Leo VI’s morphological and isochrone properties modeled u...

C. Y. Tan et al, The Astrophysical Journal 979 2

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The posterior probability distributions for the...

The posterior probability distributions for the systemic heliocentric radial velocity, v...

C. Y. Tan et al, The Astrophysical Journal 979 2

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The posterior probability distributions for the...

The posterior probability distributions for the spectroscopic metallicity, [Fe/H]spec, a...

C. Y. Tan et al, The Astrophysical Journal 979 2

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The distributions of Leo VI’s systematic proper...

The distributions of Leo VI’s systematic proper motion and orbital parameters. The syste...

C. Y. Tan et al, The Astrophysical Journal 979 2

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The magnitude B of the IMF (black line) togethe...

The magnitude B of the IMF (black line) together with its radial BR (blue line), transve...

N. V. Sarlis et al, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 288 1

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Coincidence (COIN) rate spectra of SWAPI (J. S....

Coincidence (COIN) rate spectra of SWAPI (J. S. Rankin et al. 2025) colored according to...

N. V. Sarlis et al, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 288 1

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How a time series of BR (blue) in conventional ...

How a time series of BR (blue) in conventional (clock) time can be visualized in natural...

N. V. Sarlis et al, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 288 1

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(a) The scaled distribution of μW(κ1) for W = 6...

(a) The scaled distribution of μW(κ1) for W = 600, 450, 300, and 150 for BR, BT, and BN ...

N. V. Sarlis et al, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 288 1

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The complete figure set (3739 images) is availa...

The complete figure set (3739 images) is available in the online journal. Peculiar spect...

Jonathan Gagné et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1009 1

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The four common failure modes resulting in poor...

The four common failure modes resulting in poor-quality SPIFF spectrophotometry. Upper l...

Jonathan Gagné et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1009 1

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The complete figure set (3953 images) is availa...

The complete figure set (3953 images) is available in the online journal. (The data used...

Jonathan Gagné et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1009 1

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Validation of the automated SPHEREx spectral ty...

Validation of the automated SPHEREx spectral types compared with literature spectral typ...

Jonathan Gagné et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1009 1

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Autotyping reduced χ2 as a function of spectral...

Autotyping reduced χ2 as a function of spectral type (left) and W2 magnitude (right). We...

Jonathan Gagné et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1009 1

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Average signal-to-noise ratio of the spectropho...

Average signal-to-noise ratio of the spectrophotometry products compiled here as a funct...

Jonathan Gagné et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1009 1

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The complete figure set (47 images) is availabl...

The complete figure set (47 images) is available in the online journal. Examples of hybr...

Jonathan Gagné et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1009 1

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Updated Search and Sort

We have updated the search and sort algorithm to return records in reverse chronological order based on the date/time that the images were uploaded to the Astronomy Image Explorer. This is potentially but rarely different from the publication date. Thank you!