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Shear estimation results for galaxies with diff...

Shear estimation results for galaxies with different i-band magnitude cuts. The shaded g...

Shurui Lin et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1006 2

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Shear estimation results for galaxies with mi <...

Shear estimation results for galaxies with mi < 25.3 under variations in image noise lev...

Shurui Lin et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1006 2

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Example architecture of the D4-equivariant shap...

Example architecture of the D4-equivariant shape measurement model (D4CNN). The input ga...

Shurui Lin et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1006 2

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Workflow of the analytical shear calibration fo...

Workflow of the analytical shear calibration for an ML-based shear estimator. Starting f...

Shurui Lin et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1006 2

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Transformation of measured shape under rotation...

Transformation of measured shape under rotation for our D4CNN. The same galaxy profile w...

Shurui Lin et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1006 2

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Shape-noise comparison between our CNN model (r...

Shape-noise comparison between our CNN model (red squares) and FPFS (blue circles) as a ...

Shurui Lin et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1006 2

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Transformation of measured shape under rotation...

Transformation of measured shape under rotation for our CNN model, as in Figure 3. The s...

Shurui Lin et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1006 2

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Nonlinear response of the three models to appli...

Nonlinear response of the three models to applied shear. Galaxies with identical circula...

Shurui Lin et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1006 2

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Probability distribution of σNS for the host en...

Probability distribution of σNS for the host environment of GW200105 obtained using the ...

A. Vincent Paul et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1006 2

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Inferred posteriors for v∞ and b for GW200105 b...

Inferred posteriors for v∞ and b for GW200105 based on the formalism in Section 3. As in...

A. Vincent Paul et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1006 2

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Inferred posteriors for v∞ and b for GW190521 u...

Inferred posteriors for v∞ and b for GW190521 using eccentric posteriors from I. M. Rome...

A. Vincent Paul et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1006 2

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Probability distribution of σBH for the host en...

Probability distribution of σBH for the host environment of GW190521 obtained using the ...

A. Vincent Paul et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1006 2

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Probability distribution of the binary’s decay ...

Probability distribution of the binary’s decay time for GW200105, the time from capture ...

A. Vincent Paul et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1006 2

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Specific energy ein for the injected particles ...

Specific energy ein for the injected particles as a function of the angle ϕ1, measured r...

Shunquan Huang et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1006 2

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Snapshots of the projected density at 600 orbit...

Snapshots of the projected density at 600 orbital periods. The top and bottom rows show ...

Shunquan Huang et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1006 2

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Scatter plots of particle velocities in a snaps...

Scatter plots of particle velocities in a snapshot at 600 orbital periods. The top panel...

Shunquan Huang et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1006 2

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Snapshots of projected density for different bi...

Snapshots of projected density for different binary eccentricity eb and mass ratio q. Fr...

Shunquan Huang et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1006 2

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Surface density and eccentricity evolution for ...

Surface density and eccentricity evolution for the circumbinary disk. Here ed represents...

Shunquan Huang et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1006 2

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Snapshots of the projected density at t = 2681....

Snapshots of the projected density at t = 2681.22 yr (350 binary orbital periods) for si...

Shunquan Huang et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1006 2

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Electron acceleration in the quasi-steady loop-...

Electron acceleration in the quasi-steady loop-top configuration at t = 130 s. This figu...

Yoshiaki Sato et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1006 2

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Spatial distributions of quantities governing a...

Spatial distributions of quantities governing acceleration mechanisms at t = 130 s. Pane...

Yoshiaki Sato et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1006 2

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Electron acceleration in the unsteady loop top ...

Electron acceleration in the unsteady loop top at t = 138 s, perturbed by a plasmoid col...

Yoshiaki Sato et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1006 2

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Same as Figure 3, but for the unsteady loop top...

Same as Figure 3, but for the unsteady loop top at t = 138 s, perturbed by a plasmoid co...

Yoshiaki Sato et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1006 2

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Time evolution of the number density distributi...

Time evolution of the number density distribution in the reconnection region from the MH...

Yoshiaki Sato et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1006 2

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A schematic of the electron acceleration mechan...

A schematic of the electron acceleration mechanism at the flare loop top. In a quasi-ste...

Yoshiaki Sato et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1006 2

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