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Geologic map of the Shackleton crater region ne...

Geologic map of the Shackleton crater region near the lunar south pole produced at a map...

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Geographic setting of the lunar south pole with...

Geographic setting of the lunar south pole with our study area (black box). The white bo...

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Overview of suggested candidate landing sites n...

Overview of suggested candidate landing sites near the Shackleton crater, shown on the 2...

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Examples of crater classes spanning the (a) Cop...

Examples of crater classes spanning the (a) Copernican, (b) Eratosthenian, (c) Imbrian, ...

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Stratigraphic correlation chart of mapped units...

Stratigraphic correlation chart of mapped units. Absolute period extents are adopted fro...

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Distribution of (A) FeO and (B) plagioclase bas...

Distribution of (A) FeO and (B) plagioclase based on 1 km pixel−1 spectral data with a 9...

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Schematic cross section of a crater, with eject...

Schematic cross section of a crater, with ejecta deposition at lower (left part) and hig...

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(A) Topographic map of Shackleton crater (20 m ...

(A) Topographic map of Shackleton crater (20 m pixel−1; M. K. Barker et al. 2023) with t...

Lukas Wueller et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 7

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Estimated Shackleton ejecta thickness as a func...

Estimated Shackleton ejecta thickness as a function of distance from the crater based on...

Lukas Wueller et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 7

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(A) Estimated thickness of Shackleton ejecta on...

(A) Estimated thickness of Shackleton ejecta on a planar surface (T. R. McGetchin et al....

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(A) Emplacement speed of Shackleton ejecta rela...

(A) Emplacement speed of Shackleton ejecta relative to a flat-terrain scenario on a 20 m...

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Posterior distributions for Kb, Pc, and Kc give...

Posterior distributions for Kb, Pc, and Kc given different RV model fits. The green hist...

Victoria DiTomasso et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 2

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HARPS-N DRS 3.3.12 data products. The left colu...

HARPS-N DRS 3.3.12 data products. The left column shows the time series of the RVs, foll...

Victoria DiTomasso et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 2

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This figure demonstrates that three of the peri...

This figure demonstrates that three of the periodicities seen in the periodogram of the ...

Victoria DiTomasso et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 2

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Transit light curves and fits for HD 60779 b. T...

Transit light curves and fits for HD 60779 b. The transit models were all fit simultaneo...

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SBLGS for HD 60779’s RV measurements. The dashe...

SBLGS for HD 60779’s RV measurements. The dashed lines correspond to the statistically s...

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Final RV and transit fits. The left and center ...

Final RV and transit fits. The left and center panels show the phase-folded RV curves fo...

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Estimates for the stellar parameters from the d...

Estimates for the stellar parameters from the different methods described in Section 5. ...

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Fourth-order polynomial as fit simultaneously t...

Fourth-order polynomial as fit simultaneously to the RVs in the final RV and transit fits.

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Corner plot of the planet parameter posteriors.

Corner plot of the planet parameter posteriors.

Victoria DiTomasso et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 2

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Host star G magnitudes and orbital periods of t...

Host star G magnitudes and orbital periods of their sub-Neptunes (2R⊕ < Rp < 4R⊕) with m...

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Simulated stellar Lyα emission and correspondin...

Simulated stellar Lyα emission and corresponding absorption by the interstellar medium f...

Victoria DiTomasso et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 2

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Exoplanets with measured masses and radii, and ...

Exoplanets with measured masses and radii, and with systemic RVs available in the Exopla...

Victoria DiTomasso et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 2

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Comparisons between the absolute abundances of ...

Comparisons between the absolute abundances of C (top row), S (middle row), and Ni (bott...

Ellen Costa-Almeida et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 2

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Comparisons between planetary radii determined ...

Comparisons between planetary radii determined in this work and in the literature. We co...

Ellen Costa-Almeida et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 2

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