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Parameter distributions of simulated systems fo...

Parameter distributions of simulated systems for which Jupiter-like oblateness is detect...

Le-Chris Wang et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1006 2

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JWST photometric precision per minute, based on...

JWST photometric precision per minute, based on bandpass-summed time series data and plo...

Le-Chris Wang et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1006 2

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Favorable star catalogs for detecting planetary...

Favorable star catalogs for detecting planetary oblateness (top) and moons (bottom) cons...

Le-Chris Wang et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1006 2

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Illustration of the ingress–egress asymmetry pr...

Illustration of the ingress–egress asymmetry produced by an oblate planet. Top: transit ...

Le-Chris Wang et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1006 2

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Parameter distributions of simulated systems fo...

Parameter distributions of simulated systems for which Jupiter-like oblateness is detect...

Le-Chris Wang et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1006 2

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Sensitivity of the predicted yields to an added...

Sensitivity of the predicted yields to an added red-noise floor on the relevant signal t...

Le-Chris Wang et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1006 2

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Simulated light curves illustrating different l...

Simulated light curves illustrating different levels of detection significance. The thre...

Le-Chris Wang et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1006 2

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Same as Figure 5, but for systems around which ...

Same as Figure 5, but for systems around which a Ganymede-sized moon would be detectable...

Le-Chris Wang et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1006 2

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Effects of relaxing the 0.3 au periastron dista...

Effects of relaxing the 0.3 au periastron distance. Top row: tidal despinning timescales...

Le-Chris Wang et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1006 2

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Corner plot comparing the forecasted oblateness...

Corner plot comparing the forecasted oblateness-favorable population (black) with the cu...

Le-Chris Wang et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1006 2

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Same as Figure 10, but for systems that are sea...

Same as Figure 10, but for systems that are searchable for Ganymede-sized moons.

Le-Chris Wang et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1006 2

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Validation of the analytic geometric scaling fo...

Validation of the analytic geometric scaling for oblateness detectability. Each point sh...

Le-Chris Wang et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1006 2

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Global simulation of a full accretion disk impa...

Global simulation of a full accretion disk impacted by an EMRI. The color scale shows th...

Kun Liu et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1006 2

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Vertical slices through the disk along the azim...

Vertical slices through the disk along the azimuthal direction showing the density distr...

Kun Liu et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1006 2

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Upper panel: energy budget estimated with Linia...

Upper panel: energy budget estimated with Linial’s model for a surface density of 106 g ...

Kun Liu et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1006 2

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Projected density plot for three simulations in...

Projected density plot for three simulations in Table 1, which involve stellar or black ...

Kun Liu et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1006 2

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Schematic illustration of an EMRI system, where...

Schematic illustration of an EMRI system, where an sBH moves along a low-inclination orb...

Kun Liu et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1006 2

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Density projection snapshots for simulations wi...

Density projection snapshots for simulations with reduced disk surface densities, compar...

Kun Liu et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1006 2

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Figure showing the relationship between the cir...

Figure showing the relationship between the circular orbital radius and the tidal radius...

Kun Liu et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1006 2

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(a) Comparison of Bondi and Hill radii under di...

(a) Comparison of Bondi and Hill radii under different impactor masses and orbital incli...

Kun Liu et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1006 2

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Ratio of volumetric rates ...

Ratio of volumetric rates ﹩{{ \mathcal R }}_{{\rm{SGRB}}}/{{ \mathcal R }}_{{\rm{BNS}}}﹩...

Maya Fishbach et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1006 2

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Inferred BNS merger rate as a function of time,...

Inferred BNS merger rate as a function of time, compared to the rates of SGRBs, MW DNS s...

Maya Fishbach et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1006 2

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NSM rates over time for different delay time di...

NSM rates over time for different delay time distributions, normalized to the z = 0 rate...

Maya Fishbach et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1006 2

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BNS and low-mass NSBH rates, in units of Gpc−3 ...

BNS and low-mass NSBH rates, in units of Gpc−3 yr−1, inferred from the latest GW catalog...

Maya Fishbach et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1006 2

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r-process event rate needed to reproduce the MW...

r-process event rate needed to reproduce the MW r-process mass. This includes material i...

Maya Fishbach et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1006 2

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