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Average metallicity of the Milky Way galaxy as ...

Average metallicity of the Milky Way galaxy as a function of age. The light-weighted ave...

Jianhui Lian et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 2

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A case of TNG50 simulated galaxies with strong ...

A case of TNG50 simulated galaxies with strong age–metallicity break. Top left: temporal...

Jianhui Lian et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 2

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The Milky Way in the mass–metallicity plane. Le...

The Milky Way in the mass–metallicity plane. Left: light-weighted average magnesium abun...

Jianhui Lian et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 2

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Observed and predicted age–metallicity distribu...

Observed and predicted age–metallicity distribution as a function of radius. The top row...

Jianhui Lian et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 2

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Density and metallicity maps of gas particles o...

Density and metallicity maps of gas particles of a TNG50 galaxy with halo ID 574286. The...

Jianhui Lian et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 2

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Examples of Stokes I maps in the continuum (ave...

Examples of Stokes I maps in the continuum (averaged over 8474.0–8475.5 Å), the K I 7698...

Yusuke Kawabata et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 2

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Spectral features of Event 1. (a) Continuum int...

Spectral features of Event 1. (a) Continuum intensity (averaged over 8474.0–8475.5 Å), (...

Yusuke Kawabata et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 2

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Results of the WFA applied to Event 1. The red ...

Results of the WFA applied to Event 1. The red and cyan contours on the WFA maps are the...

Yusuke Kawabata et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 2

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The figure format and symbols are the same as i...

The figure format and symbols are the same as in Figure 2, but for a different event (Ev...

Yusuke Kawabata et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 2

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Same as Figure 4, but showing the results of th...

Same as Figure 4, but showing the results of the WFA applied to Event 2.

Yusuke Kawabata et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 2

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Maxwell response and eccentric tidal forcing sp...

Maxwell response and eccentric tidal forcing spectrum. The rows show decreasing eccentri...

Cristobal Petrovich and Hareesh Gautham Bhaskar, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 2

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Thermally coupled tidal migration tracks for ec...

Thermally coupled tidal migration tracks for eccentric Neptune-like planets with final c...

Cristobal Petrovich and Hareesh Gautham Bhaskar, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 2

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Fraction of isolated hot Neptunes (10 < Mp/M⊕ <...

Fraction of isolated hot Neptunes (10 < Mp/M⊕ < 30; blue) and hot Jupiters (Mp > 100 M⊕;...

Cristobal Petrovich and Hareesh Gautham Bhaskar, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 2

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Effective forcing frequency, tidal quality fact...

Effective forcing frequency, tidal quality factor, and heating along constant angular mo...

Cristobal Petrovich and Hareesh Gautham Bhaskar, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 2

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Quasi-steady thermal regulation along a constan...

Quasi-steady thermal regulation along a constant angular momentum migration track at fix...

Cristobal Petrovich and Hareesh Gautham Bhaskar, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 2

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Equilibrium spin frequency feq = Ωs/n as a func...

Equilibrium spin frequency feq = Ωs/n as a function of eccentricity for fixed values of ...

Cristobal Petrovich and Hareesh Gautham Bhaskar, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 2

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Effective tidal dissipation and heating as a fu...

Effective tidal dissipation and heating as a function of the tidal relaxation time for f...

Cristobal Petrovich and Hareesh Gautham Bhaskar, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 2

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High-eccentricity collapse of the equilibrium s...

High-eccentricity collapse of the equilibrium spin, normalized by the Hut value, as a fu...

Cristobal Petrovich and Hareesh Gautham Bhaskar, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 2

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Comparison between the observed distribution of...

Comparison between the observed distribution of MSTO stars in the plane of R.A. versus h...

Yoshihisa Suzuki et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 2

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The survey footprint in the HSC-SSP and the exp...

The survey footprint in the HSC-SSP and the expected tidal debris from the different orb...

Yoshihisa Suzuki et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 2

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Halo stars toward the north field. The upper pa...

Halo stars toward the north field. The upper panel shows the spatial distribution of hal...

Yoshihisa Suzuki et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 2

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Luminosity functions for the smooth-halo model ...

Luminosity functions for the smooth-halo model and the observed halo. The gray histogram...

Yoshihisa Suzuki et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 2

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The left plot shows a map of the Hα emission in...

The left plot shows a map of the Hα emission in ESO 119-055 (the MUSE data), with the br...

Olga K. Sil’chenko and Alexei Yu. Kniazev, The Astronomical Journal 172 3

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Optical images of the studied galaxies superimp...

Optical images of the studied galaxies superimposed by long-slit orientations. Galaxy im...

Olga K. Sil’chenko and Alexei Yu. Kniazev, The Astronomical Journal 172 3

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The (g − r) color maps for ESO 119-055 and its ...

The (g − r) color maps for ESO 119-055 and its northern neighbor ESO 119-054 (the left p...

Olga K. Sil’chenko and Alexei Yu. Kniazev, The Astronomical Journal 172 3

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