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Left-hand panel: solar system giants with spin ...

Left-hand panel: solar system giants with spin rates and oblateness measurements. The Da...

Quanyi Liu et al, The Astronomical Journal 169 2

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The oblateness signals for various planet spin ...

The oblateness signals for various planet spin obliquities. A Kepler-167e-like planet wi...

Quanyi Liu et al, The Astronomical Journal 169 2

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Confirmed (filled circles) and candidate (open ...

Confirmed (filled circles) and candidate (open circles) transiting planets in the transi...

Quanyi Liu et al, The Astronomical Journal 169 2

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Left-hand panel: intensity profiles across the ...

Left-hand panel: intensity profiles across the stellar surface in different wavelength r...

Quanyi Liu et al, The Astronomical Journal 169 2

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Theoretic stellar power spectra of a Kepler-167...

Theoretic stellar power spectra of a Kepler-167-like star in JWST/NIRSpec (red) and Kepl...

Quanyi Liu et al, The Astronomical Journal 169 2

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Constraints on the oblateness f⊥ and obliquity ...

Constraints on the oblateness f⊥ and obliquity θ⊥ in the polar coordinate from the injec...

Quanyi Liu et al, The Astronomical Journal 169 2

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Similar to Figure 6 but for f⊥ = 0.05. The dete...

Similar to Figure 6 but for f⊥ = 0.05. The detection significance of the oblateness sign...

Quanyi Liu et al, The Astronomical Journal 169 2

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Simulated light curves of a Kepler-167e-like pl...

Simulated light curves of a Kepler-167e-like planet with Saturn-like oblateness (f⊥ = 0....

Quanyi Liu et al, The Astronomical Journal 169 2

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Similar to Figure 6 but for f⊥ = 0.

Quanyi Liu et al, The Astronomical Journal 169 2

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Comparison of 2D distribution of A(V), R(V), an...

Comparison of 2D distribution of A(V), R(V), and qPAH for dust clouds. For A(V) and R(V)...

Xiangyu Zhang et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 979 1

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Continuation of Figure 1.

Xiangyu Zhang et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 979 1

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Correlation between R(V) and qPAH using stars t...

Correlation between R(V) and qPAH using stars that pass all the cuts in Figure 1. The 16...

Xiangyu Zhang et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 979 1

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R(V) distribution of LMC and SMC is shown in th...

R(V) distribution of LMC and SMC is shown in the top panels. We select stars by distance...

Xiangyu Zhang et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 979 1

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Quantitative comparison on the per-star basis b...

Quantitative comparison on the per-star basis between R(V) and qPAH in LMC (left panel) ...

Xiangyu Zhang et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 979 1

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R(V) variation as a function of the mass accret...

R(V) variation as a function of the mass accreted onto astrodust or PAHs relative to ini...

Xiangyu Zhang et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 979 1

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The cosmic-ray spectra (upper panels) and the c...

The cosmic-ray spectra (upper panels) and the corresponding radiation doses experienced ...

Caitlyn Nojiri et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 979 1

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The configuration of stellar associations in an...

The configuration of stellar associations in and around the LB. Left panel: shown is a p...

Caitlyn Nojiri et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 979 1

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Same as Figure 3 for a PeVatron in Upper Centau...

Same as Figure 3 for a PeVatron in Upper Centaurus Lupus (3.0 Myr, 140 pc) but varying t...

Caitlyn Nojiri et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 979 1

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The distance from Earth to the cluster progenit...

The distance from Earth to the cluster progenitor candidates. Upper panel: the evolution...

Caitlyn Nojiri et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 979 1

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The average dose rate experienced at ground lev...

The average dose rate experienced at ground level as a function of the distance to the n...

Caitlyn Nojiri et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 979 1

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The cosmic-ray spectrum (upper panels) and the ...

The cosmic-ray spectrum (upper panels) and the corresponding radiation dose experienced ...

Caitlyn Nojiri et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 979 1

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Predicted distributions of ISOs with q < 5 au i...

Predicted distributions of ISOs with q < 5 au in velocity, on-sky radiant, composition p...

Matthew J. Hopkins et al, The Astronomical Journal 169 2

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Distributions of the sine morte stellar populat...

Distributions of the sine morte stellar population in velocity, age, and [M/H]. U is the...

Matthew J. Hopkins et al, The Astronomical Journal 169 2

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Fraction of q < 5 au ISOs at each velocity, rad...

Fraction of q < 5 au ISOs at each velocity, radiant, and age that are “sandy” (...

Matthew J. Hopkins et al, The Astronomical Journal 169 2

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Volume sampling rate scaled by 1/πq2 for differ...

Volume sampling rate scaled by 1/πq2 for different perihelia q. This is the combination ...

Matthew J. Hopkins et al, The Astronomical Journal 169 2

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