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HSC-SSP Deep/UltraDeep images of nine represent...

HSC-SSP Deep/UltraDeep images of nine representative galaxies in our final sample of hig...

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Examples of stellar halo measurements from surf...

Examples of stellar halo measurements from surface brightness profiles. Each panel shows...

Bojun Tao et al, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 284 1

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An example of identifying the stellar halo-domi...

An example of identifying the stellar halo-dominated regions. Left panel: a composite im...

Bojun Tao et al, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 284 1

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Radial profiles of PSFs constructed for the HSC...

Radial profiles of PSFs constructed for the HSC-SSP Deep/UltraDeep images. Cyan triangle...

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Distribution of our galaxies on the stellar mas...

Distribution of our galaxies on the stellar mass–redshift plane. The background gray dot...

Bojun Tao et al, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 284 1

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Similar to Figure 2, but after subtracting brig...

Similar to Figure 2, but after subtracting bright stars, masking out contaminating sourc...

Bojun Tao et al, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 284 1

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Comparison of the outskirts’ ellipticities meas...

Comparison of the outskirts’ ellipticities measured on images with and without subtracti...

Bojun Tao et al, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 284 1

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Similar to Figure 2, but after subtracting brig...

Similar to Figure 2, but after subtracting bright stars and masking contamination source...

Bojun Tao et al, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 284 1

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The r-band azimuthally median surface brightnes...

The r-band azimuthally median surface brightness profiles along the minor axis of all sa...

Bojun Tao et al, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 284 1

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Stellar halo detection rate as a function of ga...

Stellar halo detection rate as a function of galaxy stellar mass. The halo detection rat...

Bojun Tao et al, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 284 1

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Power-law indices of stellar halo profiles are ...

Power-law indices of stellar halo profiles are plotted against the host galaxy stellar m...

Bojun Tao et al, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 284 1

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Similar to Figure 11, but showing the results o...

Similar to Figure 11, but showing the results of stellar halo colors of our galaxies. Se...

Bojun Tao et al, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 284 1

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Distribution of the inner boundary of the stell...

Distribution of the inner boundary of the stellar-halo-dominated region of our galaxies....

Bojun Tao et al, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 284 1

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Stellar halo colors are plotted against stellar...

Stellar halo colors are plotted against stellar halo masses for our galaxies. Results fo...

Bojun Tao et al, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 284 1

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Stellar halo mass and flux fractions relative t...

Stellar halo mass and flux fractions relative to host galaxies. Upper-left and -right pa...

Bojun Tao et al, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 284 1

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Isolated dwarf galaxy simulation performed with...

Isolated dwarf galaxy simulation performed with GAMER. The projected gas density is anno...

Shin-Rong Tsai et al, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 284 1

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Distribution of magnetic field magnitude at var...

Distribution of magnetic field magnitude at various postbounce times tpb in a core-colla...

Shin-Rong Tsai et al, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 284 1

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The overall structure of libyt and all of the r...

The overall structure of libyt and all of the related components: libyt Python Module, l...

Shin-Rong Tsai et al, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 284 1

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The procedure of performing in situ analysis wi...

The procedure of performing in situ analysis with libyt and the API related to each step...

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Final snapshot (t = 499.98 Myr) of the AGORA ga...

Final snapshot (t = 499.98 Myr) of the AGORA galaxy simulation using Enzo, without stell...

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The average per-process memory usage across sev...

The average per-process memory usage across several libyt in situ analysis stages, inclu...

Shin-Rong Tsai et al, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 284 1

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The classical Sod shock tube test results in de...

The classical Sod shock tube test results in density, velocity, pressure, and internal e...

Shin-Rong Tsai et al, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 284 1

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Average density distribution in an FDM simulati...

Average density distribution in an FDM simulation performed with GAMER. The yellow regio...

Shin-Rong Tsai et al, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 284 1

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Probability distribution function of gas in the...

Probability distribution function of gas in the density–temperature plane from an isolat...

Shin-Rong Tsai et al, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 284 1

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Density field from the Kelvin–Helmholtz instabi...

Density field from the Kelvin–Helmholtz instability test problem at t = 5000 ms, obtaine...

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