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Survival of the outer solar system under stocha...

Survival of the outer solar system under stochastic mass loss. Panel (A) shows the fract...

Konstantin Batygin et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1009 2

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Stochastic resonant capture and its consequence...

Stochastic resonant capture and its consequences. Panel (A): capture probability into th...

Konstantin Batygin et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1009 2

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Episodic mass loss randomizes the giant planets...

Episodic mass loss randomizes the giant planets’ period ratios. Evolution of PS/PJ, PU/P...

Konstantin Batygin et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1009 2

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Instabilities unfolding. Semimajor axes and per...

Instabilities unfolding. Semimajor axes and perihelion–aphelion envelopes for four repre...

Konstantin Batygin et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1009 2

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Examples of post-mass-loss orbital architecture...

Examples of post-mass-loss orbital architectures. Orbit plots of representative end stat...

Konstantin Batygin et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1009 2

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Instability onset times as a function of ejecti...

Instability onset times as a function of ejection granularity. Each point is one realiza...

Konstantin Batygin et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1009 2

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Validity of the impulsive-kick approximation. S...

Validity of the impulsive-kick approximation. Suppression of kick-driven dispersions whe...

Konstantin Batygin et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1009 2

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CMD of Boo I main-sequence member stars, overla...

CMD of Boo I main-sequence member stars, overlaid with BaSTI α-enhanced isochrone (blue)...

Keyi Ding et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1009 2

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Comparison of the best-fit log-normal character...

Comparison of the best-fit log-normal characteristic mass with literature IMF values as ...

Keyi Ding et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1009 2

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Empirical model-data color correction. Left: Ob...

Empirical model-data color correction. Left: Observed CMD with ridge line. Middle: Obser...

Keyi Ding et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1009 2

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Confusion matrix for the IMF model recovery tes...

Confusion matrix for the IMF model recovery tests. The x-axis shows the true underlying ...

Keyi Ding et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1009 2

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Two-dimensional histogram of the observed CMD (...

Two-dimensional histogram of the observed CMD (top-left panel). The remaining three pane...

Keyi Ding et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1009 2

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Cumulative luminosity function of observed star...

Cumulative luminosity function of observed stars (orange dashed line) compared to poster...

Keyi Ding et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1009 2

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Corner plots of the posterior distributions for...

Corner plots of the posterior distributions for the three IMF models, and the conditiona...

Keyi Ding et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1009 2

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Goodness-of-fit measurements for each IMF model...

Goodness-of-fit measurements for each IMF model. The histogram colors indicate the 68%, ...

Keyi Ding et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1009 2

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Relation between magnitude and ...

Relation between magnitude and ﹩\mathrm{log}\left(1/\mathrm{SNR}\right)﹩ in the F150W (l...

Keyi Ding et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1009 2

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CMD of sources extracted by DOLPHOT. Left: All ...

CMD of sources extracted by DOLPHOT. Left: All photometric sources are shown in gray, wi...

Keyi Ding et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1009 2

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Luminosity function of the input magnitudes (bl...

Luminosity function of the input magnitudes (blue) and the recovered magnitudes (orange)...

Keyi Ding et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1009 2

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Digitized Sky Survey image of Bootes I. The bla...

Digitized Sky Survey image of Bootes I. The black outlines show the approximate location...

Keyi Ding et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1009 2

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Corner plots of the posterior distributions for...

Corner plots of the posterior distributions for the three IMF models, where the IMF and ...

Keyi Ding et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1009 2

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The spectroscopic MDF of Boo I, with the blue l...

The spectroscopic MDF of Boo I, with the blue line showing the [Fe/H] histogram and the ...

Keyi Ding et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1009 2

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Posterior corner plots from the BPL convergence...

Posterior corner plots from the BPL convergence test, with blue lines marking the true (...

Keyi Ding et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1009 2

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Left: The input luminosity function of the arti...

Left: The input luminosity function of the artificial stars. Middle: The input CMD used ...

Keyi Ding et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1009 2

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Posterior corner plots from the convergence tes...

Posterior corner plots from the convergence test, with blue lines marking the true (inpu...

Keyi Ding et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1009 2

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Fractional high-energy luminosities of the samp...

Fractional high-energy luminosities of the sample stars as a function of effective tempe...

Sarah Peacock et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1009 2

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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!