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Left: stellar host metallicity measurements com...

Left: stellar host metallicity measurements compiled from the literature and used in thi...

Marvin Morgan et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 1

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Toomre diagrams illustrating U, V, W Galactic k...

Toomre diagrams illustrating U, V, W Galactic kinematic space velocities of the warm Jup...

Marvin Morgan et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 1

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Eccentricity plotted as a function of semimajor...

Eccentricity plotted as a function of semimajor axis for all 200 warm Jupiters with new,...

Marvin Morgan et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 1

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Underlying eccentricity distribution results fr...

Underlying eccentricity distribution results from our HBM for all warm Jupiters. The blu...

Marvin Morgan et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 1

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Plotted in orange is the metallicity distributi...

Plotted in orange is the metallicity distribution of ≈20,000 field stars in the solar ne...

Marvin Morgan et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 1

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Results from our HBM test assuming a Beta distr...

Results from our HBM test assuming a Beta distribution for the underlying eccentricity d...

Marvin Morgan et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 1

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Top left: additional underlying Rayleigh and Ga...

Top left: additional underlying Rayleigh and Gaussian HBM tests for the full sample of w...

Marvin Morgan et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 1

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Top: additional tests for host star mass. These...

Top: additional tests for host star mass. These additional tests are in good agreement w...

Marvin Morgan et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 1

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Left: stellar host metallicity plotted as a fun...

Left: stellar host metallicity plotted as a function of eccentricity for all warm Jupite...

Marvin Morgan et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 1

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Top: host star metallicity as a function of pla...

Top: host star metallicity as a function of planet eccentricity for all warm Jupiters in...

Marvin Morgan et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 1

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Joint posterior distributions of the Beta distr...

Joint posterior distributions of the Beta distribution hyperparameters α and β for the f...

Marvin Morgan et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 1

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Predictions for the maximum distance (left colu...

Predictions for the maximum distance (left column) and maximum apparent G-band magnitude...

Caleb Lammers and Joshua N. Winn, The Astronomical Journal 171 1

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Simulated Gaia DR5 astrometry for an 8 MJ plane...

Simulated Gaia DR5 astrometry for an 8 MJ planet on a 4 au orbit around a 0.8 M⊙ star lo...

Caleb Lammers and Joshua N. Winn, The Astronomical Journal 171 1

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Results of orbit-fitting experiments with simul...

Results of orbit-fitting experiments with simulated Gaia DR5 data. The points represent ...

Caleb Lammers and Joshua N. Winn, The Astronomical Journal 171 1

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Predictions of our semianalytic Gaia forecast m...

Predictions of our semianalytic Gaia forecast model for DR5. The left panel shows the nu...

Caleb Lammers and Joshua N. Winn, The Astronomical Journal 171 1

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Model for the astrometric precision of individu...

Model for the astrometric precision of individual Gaia measurements (i.e., field-of-view...

Caleb Lammers and Joshua N. Winn, The Astronomical Journal 171 1

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Predictions for the MF of stars that could host...

Predictions for the MF of stars that could host a Gaia-detectable planet (MF...

Caleb Lammers and Joshua N. Winn, The Astronomical Journal 171 1

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The number of planet detections predicted by ou...

The number of planet detections predicted by our semianalytic model as a function of the...

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The top panel shows the G-band VLF for main-seq...

The top panel shows the G-band VLF for main-sequence stars within 100 pc (Gaia Collabora...

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Accuracy of fitted orbital periods, based on an...

Accuracy of fitted orbital periods, based on analyses of simulated Gaia astrometric time...

Caleb Lammers and Joshua N. Winn, The Astronomical Journal 171 1

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The top panel shows the absolute G-band magnitu...

The top panel shows the absolute G-band magnitude vs. stellar mass for main-sequence sta...

Caleb Lammers and Joshua N. Winn, The Astronomical Journal 171 1

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Masses and semimajor axes of known planets and ...

Masses and semimajor axes of known planets and simulated Gaia planets. In both cases, we...

Caleb Lammers and Joshua N. Winn, The Astronomical Journal 171 1

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Recovered properties for the 7500 mock Gaia DR4...

Recovered properties for the 7500 mock Gaia DR4 detections (red) and the 120,000 DR5 det...

Caleb Lammers and Joshua N. Winn, The Astronomical Journal 171 1

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The expected fraction of astrometric planet can...

The expected fraction of astrometric planet candidates that are genuine planets (instead...

Caleb Lammers and Joshua N. Winn, The Astronomical Journal 171 1

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The fraction of DR5 planet candidates that are ...

The fraction of DR5 planet candidates that are genuine planets, instead of unresolved bi...

Caleb Lammers and Joshua N. Winn, The Astronomical Journal 171 1

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