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The on-sky evolution of Echidna’s orbit from 20...

The on-sky evolution of Echidna’s orbit from 2006 to 2025 in our non-Keplerian (left) an...

Benjamin Proudfoot et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 8

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Precession of Typhon’s spin pole and Echidna’s ...

Precession of Typhon’s spin pole and Echidna’s orbit pole. Colored lines and shaded regi...

Benjamin Proudfoot et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 8

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Evolution of Typhon’s aspect angle (left) and l...

Evolution of Typhon’s aspect angle (left) and light-curve amplitude (right). Aspect angl...

Benjamin Proudfoot et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 8

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Evolution of the opening angle of the orbit wit...

Evolution of the opening angle of the orbit with and without precession. Opening angle i...

Benjamin Proudfoot et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 8

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A corner plot showing the posterior distributio...

A corner plot showing the posterior distribution from our non-Keplerian orbit fit. At th...

Benjamin Proudfoot et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 8

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Phase measurements as a function of time with t...

Phase measurements as a function of time with the best-fit quadratic model with and with...

Rahul Sharma et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 1

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Phase-resolved spectroscopy with NICER (black) ...

Phase-resolved spectroscopy with NICER (black) and EP-FXT (red). The panels (from top to...

Rahul Sharma et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 1

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The ultracompact binaries with known orbital pe...

The ultracompact binaries with known orbital period and their derivative (﹩\dot{P}﹩) (Ta...

Rahul Sharma et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 1

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Spectral fit of eRASSU J060839.5–704014 using N...

Spectral fit of eRASSU J060839.5–704014 using NICER (left) and EP-FXT (right) modeled wi...

Rahul Sharma et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 1

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Orbital profiles with their Fourier components ...

Orbital profiles with their Fourier components from three observations to illustrate the...

Rahul Sharma et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 1

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Corner plots of the posterior distributions of ...

Corner plots of the posterior distributions of the timing model parameters obtained from...

Rahul Sharma et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 1

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Corner plots of the posterior distributions for...

Corner plots of the posterior distributions for NICER (left) and EP-FXT (right) spectral...

Rahul Sharma et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 1

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Selection of LRDs. Each dot represents a BH pro...

Selection of LRDs. Each dot represents a BH produced by the model at z = 5 in the planes...

Yangyao Chen and Houjun Mo, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 1

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Distribution of properties of LRDs as well as t...

Distribution of properties of LRDs as well as their progenitors and descendants. Here th...

Yangyao Chen and Houjun Mo, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 1

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Bolometric luminosity function (Φ) of LRDs. (a)...

Bolometric luminosity function (Φ) of LRDs. (a) Φ of LRDs predicted by our model at z = ...

Yangyao Chen and Houjun Mo, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 1

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Number density of LRDs as a function of redshif...

Number density of LRDs as a function of redshift. Here we show the predicted number dens...

Yangyao Chen and Houjun Mo, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 1

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Observed SUSI continuum intensity (Ic) time–dis...

Observed SUSI continuum intensity (Ic) time–distance map (grayscale). The sit-and-stare ...

Andreas Lagg et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 1

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TUMAG continuum intensity (left panel, green co...

TUMAG continuum intensity (left panel, green colormap), SUSI Slit-Jaw Camera (SJC) image...

Andreas Lagg et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 1

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Formation heights of the selected spectral line...

Formation heights of the selected spectral lines in a FAL-C atmosphere. Blue: observed S...

Andreas Lagg et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 1

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Line-core oscillation maps and line plots. Top ...

Line-core oscillation maps and line plots. Top panel: slit-time map for the deepest form...

Andreas Lagg et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 1

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Height dependence of time lags for all 502 trac...

Height dependence of time lags for all 502 traced pulses with respect to the peak positi...

Andreas Lagg et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 1

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Corner plot showing the posterior distribution ...

Corner plot showing the posterior distribution of all inferred parameters from the nomin...

Aurora Y. Kesseli et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 3

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Same as Figure 11, but the PT parameterization ...

Same as Figure 11, but the PT parameterization is instead given by N. Madhusudhan & S. S...

Aurora Y. Kesseli et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 3

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Same as Figure 11, but only run with the two mo...

Same as Figure 11, but only run with the two molecules detected in cross correlation (H2...

Aurora Y. Kesseli et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 3

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Phase coverage of the observing epochs. With th...

Phase coverage of the observing epochs. With the three epochs, we fully cover phases of ...

Aurora Y. Kesseli et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 3

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