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Geometry of the atmosphere on giant planets and...

Geometry of the atmosphere on giant planets and the corresponding β profile. The upper r...

Yaoxuan Zeng et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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The direction of the equatorial jet. (a) Nondim...

The direction of the equatorial jet. (a) Nondimensionalized equatorial zonal jet speed (...

Yaoxuan Zeng et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Observed surface zonal wind profile on giant pl...

Observed surface zonal wind profile on giant planets. The JS-type jets are shown in (a) ...

Yaoxuan Zeng et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Examination of different jet formation mechanis...

Examination of different jet formation mechanisms. Panels (a) and (b) show the zonal-mea...

Yaoxuan Zeng et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Jet width and number. (a) Diagnosed jet width (...

Jet width and number. (a) Diagnosed jet width (Ljet) compared to the diagnosed modified ...

Yaoxuan Zeng et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Sensitivity to initial conditions. Evolution of...

Sensitivity to initial conditions. Evolution of the zonal-mean zonal velocity for simula...

Yaoxuan Zeng et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Sensitivity tests on the sign and gradient of β...

Sensitivity tests on the sign and gradient of β. Panels (a) and (b) show the modified β ...

Yaoxuan Zeng et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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The smoothness of the jets. The jet energy frac...

The smoothness of the jets. The jet energy fraction (Ejet/Etot) diagnosed in the simulat...

Yaoxuan Zeng et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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KE spectrum. Snapshots of the KE (u2/2 + v2/2) ...

KE spectrum. Snapshots of the KE (u2/2 + v2/2) spectra from simulations with ε = 2.9 × 1...

Yaoxuan Zeng et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Sensitivity to boundary conditions. Zonal-mean ...

Sensitivity to boundary conditions. Zonal-mean zonal velocity fields from simulations wi...

Yaoxuan Zeng et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Zonal-mean jet profiles. Lines represent the zo...

Zonal-mean jet profiles. Lines represent the zonal-mean zonal velocity ﹩\overline{u}﹩ fr...

Yaoxuan Zeng et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Sketch of the Ekman boundary layer. The radial ...

Sketch of the Ekman boundary layer. The radial velocity at the bottom boundary (vr(zb)) ...

Yaoxuan Zeng et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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KE spectra. Snapshots of the KE (u2/2 + v2/2) s...

KE spectra. Snapshots of the KE (u2/2 + v2/2) spectra in all simulations. The blue line ...

Yaoxuan Zeng et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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The distribution of 822 HARPS sample stars in t...

The distribution of 822 HARPS sample stars in the minimum mass versus semimajor axis pla...

Jiayin Li et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 1

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This figure shows in blue dots the planets dete...

This figure shows in blue dots the planets detected in the HARPS sample whose properties...

Jiayin Li et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 1

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Ratios of CLS to HARPS values for average numbe...

Ratios of CLS to HARPS values for average number of planets per star (...

Jiayin Li et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 1

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Illustrations of the derived intrinsic planet m...

Illustrations of the derived intrinsic planet multiplicity distributions for the three c...

Jiayin Li et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 1

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Comparison of the stellar metallicity distribut...

Comparison of the stellar metallicity distributions of the HARPS and refined CLS samples...

Jiayin Li et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 1

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The distribution of the remaining 351 CLS sampl...

The distribution of the remaining 351 CLS sample stars in the minimum mass versus semima...

Jiayin Li et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 1

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This figure shows in blue dots the planets dete...

This figure shows in blue dots the planets detected in the less biased CLS sample whose ...

Jiayin Li et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 1

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First ground-based definitive detection of the ...

First ground-based definitive detection of the faint photospheric Si I 6560.57 Å line wi...

Yutao Wang et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 1

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Detection of solar 5 minute oscillations. Top p...

Detection of solar 5 minute oscillations. Top panel: time series of 842 consecutive spec...

Yutao Wang et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 1

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Top panel: absolute wavelength calibration accu...

Top panel: absolute wavelength calibration accuracy (residual rms) and the fundamental p...

Yutao Wang et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 1

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Optical layout of the compact VIPA spectrograph...

Optical layout of the compact VIPA spectrograph. The instrument accepts both single-mode...

Yutao Wang et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 1

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Measured and simulated instrumental profiles (I...

Measured and simulated instrumental profiles (IPs) of the VIPA spectrograph for both sin...

Yutao Wang et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 1

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