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Upper panel: histogram of the absolute magnitud...

Upper panel: histogram of the absolute magnitude H values for detections of Hildas durin...

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Osculating orbital eccentricity e (abscissa) vs...

Osculating orbital eccentricity e (abscissa) vs. absolute magnitude H (ordinate) for 431...

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Detections of Hilda asteroids by the CSS operat...

Detections of Hilda asteroids by the CSS operations in between 2013 January 2 and 2016 M...

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Number of Hilda observations in the CSS operati...

Number of Hilda observations in the CSS operations (phases I and II separated by the ver...

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Top panels and bottom-left panel: The same as i...

Top panels and bottom-left panel: The same as in Figure 6, but now the long-term unstabl...

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Left panel: statistical distribution of the ecc...

Left panel: statistical distribution of the eccentricity factor κ (Equation (B12), red) ...

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Resonant variables Φ vs. ϕ for (1911) Schubart....

Resonant variables Φ vs. ϕ for (1911) Schubart. The gray contours are isolines of consta...

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Projected distributions of the proper orbital p...

Projected distributions of the proper orbital parameters ap (left), ep (middle), and ...

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The posterior distribution of 15 model paramete...

The posterior distribution of 15 model parameters (p1, …, p15) characterizing the backgr...

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Projected distributions of the proper orbital l...

Projected distributions of the proper orbital longitude of perihelion ϖp of the biased H...

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Bias-corrected cumulative magnitude distributio...

Bias-corrected cumulative magnitude distribution of the Hilda population based on G96 ob...

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Depletion of the observed Hilda population with...

Depletion of the observed Hilda population with time (6094 initial bodies identified in ...

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The local slope of the cumulative absolute magn...

The local slope of the cumulative absolute magnitude distribution for the bias-corrected...

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Bottom panels: detected Hilda asteroids during ...

Bottom panels: detected Hilda asteroids during the phase II of CSS operations projected ...

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Hilda population represented by the 1D distribu...

Hilda population represented by the 1D distributions of the proper parameters: (i) ap (l...

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Detection probability ...

Detection probability ﹩{ \mathcal P }\left({\boldsymbol{p}};H\right)﹩ for the Hilda aste...

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Differential magnitude distribution (left panel...

Differential magnitude distribution (left panel; bin width 0.25 mag) and cumulative dist...

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Population of 6094 Hildas known as of 2024 Febr...

Population of 6094 Hildas known as of 2024 February projected onto 2D planes of proper p...

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Population-wise weighted detection probability ...

Population-wise weighted detection probability ﹩\overline{{ \mathcal P }}(H)﹩ computed u...

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Detection probability ...

Detection probability ﹩{ \mathcal P }\left({\boldsymbol{p}};H\right)﹩ for Hilda asteroid...

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Differential magnitude distribution of the G96 ...

Differential magnitude distribution of the G96 observations (blue for phase I and red fo...

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Number of detections for each unique Hilda in t...

Number of detections for each unique Hilda in the CSS phase I (left; 2970 bodies) and ph...

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The orbit of (1911) Schubart numerically propag...

The orbit of (1911) Schubart numerically propagated and projected onto the Cartesian-lik...

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Synthetic proper elements for all Hildas shown ...

Synthetic proper elements for all Hildas shown in 2D projections: (ap, Ip) (left panel),...

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Synthetic proper elements of members in Hilda-p...

Synthetic proper elements of members in Hilda-population collisional families identified...

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