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Panchromatic reflectance spectra of 3I/ATLAS. A...

Panchromatic reflectance spectra of 3I/ATLAS. All epochs show a clear rising continuum i...

Kyle Medler et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 1

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Emission lines associated with Ni, Fe, CN, and ...

Emission lines associated with Ni, Fe, CN, and C3 that emerge in the LRIS and SNIFS spec...

Kyle Medler et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 1

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Evolution of the optical and NIR spectral slope...

Evolution of the optical and NIR spectral slopes of 3I/ATLAS as it approaches perihelion...

Kyle Medler et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 1

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Comparison of 3I/ATLAS’s NIR spectrum with the ...

Comparison of 3I/ATLAS’s NIR spectrum with the binned NIR spectrum of 2I/Borisov (C.-H. ...

Kyle Medler et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 1

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Geant4-IcyMoons benchmarks. (a) Electron stoppi...

Geant4-IcyMoons benchmarks. (a) Electron stopping power in liquid water (G4EmDNAPhysics_...

Gideon Yoffe et al, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 284 2

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Total per-channel cross sections for five ioniz...

Total per-channel cross sections for five ionization (red curves; O K shell in purple) a...

Gideon Yoffe et al, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 284 2

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Dielectric properties of amorphous and hexagona...

Dielectric properties of amorphous and hexagonal ice in the optical limit. Upper panels:...

Gideon Yoffe et al, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 284 2

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Total cross sections (TCSs) for elastic scatter...

Total cross sections (TCSs) for elastic scattering. The light gray curve shows the 1–100...

Gideon Yoffe et al, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 284 2

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TCSs of vibrational excitation channels, as rep...

TCSs of vibrational excitation channels, as reported in M. Michaud et al. (2003) for (a)...

Gideon Yoffe et al, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 284 2

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Experimentally derived total dissociative elect...

Experimentally derived total dissociative electron attachment cross sections for amorpho...

Gideon Yoffe et al, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 284 2

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Electron-access energy maps of Europa, followin...

Electron-access energy maps of Europa, following T. A. Nordheim et al. (2018). At each s...

Gideon Yoffe et al, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 284 2

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Four diagnostics of electron bombardment on Eur...

Four diagnostics of electron bombardment on Europa’s leading hemisphere: (a) total depos...

Gideon Yoffe et al, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 284 2

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Four diagnostics of electron bombardment on Eur...

Four diagnostics of electron bombardment on Europa’s trailing hemisphere, formatted simi...

Gideon Yoffe et al, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 284 2

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Depth-resolved deposited-dose rates from electr...

Depth-resolved deposited-dose rates from electron bombardment in Europa’s near-surface i...

Gideon Yoffe et al, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 284 2

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Energy-deposition diagnostics for electron bomb...

Energy-deposition diagnostics for electron bombardment simulations of Europa’s leading h...

Gideon Yoffe et al, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 284 2

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Energy-deposition diagnostics for electron bomb...

Energy-deposition diagnostics for electron bombardment simulations of Europa’s trailing ...

Gideon Yoffe et al, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 284 2

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On-sky velocities corresponding to SALTAD hits,...

On-sky velocities corresponding to SALTAD hits, with ecliptic latitude and longitude rat...

Emerson A. Whittaker and Jean-Luc Margot, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Example detections for known MBAs that have at ...

Example detections for known MBAs that have at least three previously unreported observa...

Emerson A. Whittaker and Jean-Luc Margot, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Images of two candidates with MLE = 8.3 dB at t...

Images of two candidates with MLE = 8.3 dB at the beginning, middle, and end of SALTAD p...

Emerson A. Whittaker and Jean-Luc Margot, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Left: histogram of the number of known objects ...

Left: histogram of the number of known objects expected within all subfields combined, w...

Emerson A. Whittaker and Jean-Luc Margot, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Ecliptic coordinates for all detections submitt...

Ecliptic coordinates for all detections submitted to the MPC, excluding identified false...

Emerson A. Whittaker and Jean-Luc Margot, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Astrometric residuals for all detections of kno...

Astrometric residuals for all detections of known objects with listed orbital elements. ...

Emerson A. Whittaker and Jean-Luc Margot, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Orbital element plots for all confirmed candida...

Orbital element plots for all confirmed candidates for which we reported detections to t...

Emerson A. Whittaker and Jean-Luc Margot, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Histogram of MLE (dB) for all candidates submit...

Histogram of MLE (dB) for all candidates submitted to the MPC, excluding identified fals...

Emerson A. Whittaker and Jean-Luc Margot, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Diagram of the asteroid shift-and-stack detecti...

Diagram of the asteroid shift-and-stack detection pipeline. The detection culling pipeli...

Emerson A. Whittaker and Jean-Luc Margot, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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