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(a) Phase-folded light curve of ZTF J191457.72+...

(a) Phase-folded light curve of ZTF J191457.72+270231.3 on the revised ephemeris of Equa...

Nello Ruocco, Research Notes of the AAS 10 8

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Horizon-scale images of the direct (n = 0; in ...

Horizon-scale images of the direct (n = 0; in pink) and secondary (n = 1; in blue) sub...

Delilah E. A. Gates et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1007 1

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Behavior of the centers (xn, yn) for the n = ...

Behavior of the centers (xn, yn) for the n = 0 and n = 1 images of equatorial source...

Delilah E. A. Gates et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1007 1

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Normalized parallel (top rows) and transverse (...

Normalized parallel (top rows) and transverse (bottom rows) shifts in images of MAD GRMH...

Delilah E. A. Gates et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1007 1

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Spin-constraint precision ...

Spin-constraint precision ﹩{\sigma }_{| {a}_{* }| }﹩ for M87* with prograde (blue region...

Delilah E. A. Gates et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1007 1

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Feasibility regions in which fixed shift values...

Feasibility regions in which fixed shift values {0.01, 0.02, …, 0.16} (colored region) c...

Delilah E. A. Gates et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1007 1

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Normalized shifts in images of GRMHD SANE simul...

Normalized shifts in images of GRMHD SANE simulations viewed at θo = 17∘. The simulati...

Delilah E. A. Gates et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1007 1

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Normalized parallel (top) and transverse (botto...

Normalized parallel (top) and transverse (bottom) shift regions of equatorial rings with...

Delilah E. A. Gates et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1007 1

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Schematic illustration of radiative transfer wi...

Schematic illustration of radiative transfer with resonant Compton scattering (RCS) and ...

Tu Guo and Dong Lai, The Astrophysical Journal 1007 1

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Flux and polarization spectra for different mag...

Flux and polarization spectra for different magnetospheric twist parameters in the full ...

Tu Guo and Dong Lai, The Astrophysical Journal 1007 1

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Flux and polarization spectra for different sca...

Flux and polarization spectra for different scattering strengths compared to the unscatt...

Tu Guo and Dong Lai, The Astrophysical Journal 1007 1

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Flux and polarization spectra for different mea...

Flux and polarization spectra for different mean electron drift velocities in the full m...

Tu Guo and Dong Lai, The Astrophysical Journal 1007 1

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The relative O-mode and X-mode fluxes and polar...

The relative O-mode and X-mode fluxes and polarization spectra for two first-order presc...

Tu Guo and Dong Lai, The Astrophysical Journal 1007 1

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Flux and polarization spectra for different obs...

Flux and polarization spectra for different observer viewing angles in the full model. T...

Tu Guo and Dong Lai, The Astrophysical Journal 1007 1

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Heat map of the characteristic resonant optical...

Heat map of the characteristic resonant optical depth in the full model. The parameters ...

Tu Guo and Dong Lai, The Astrophysical Journal 1007 1

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Flux and polarization spectra for different mag...

Flux and polarization spectra for different magnetospheric plasma temperatures in the fu...

Tu Guo and Dong Lai, The Astrophysical Journal 1007 1

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The on-sky evolution of Echidna’s orbit from 20...

The on-sky evolution of Echidna’s orbit from 2006 to 2025 in our non-Keplerian (left) an...

Benjamin Proudfoot et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 8

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Precession of Typhon’s spin pole and Echidna’s ...

Precession of Typhon’s spin pole and Echidna’s orbit pole. Colored lines and shaded regi...

Benjamin Proudfoot et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 8

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Evolution of Typhon’s aspect angle (left) and l...

Evolution of Typhon’s aspect angle (left) and light-curve amplitude (right). Aspect angl...

Benjamin Proudfoot et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 8

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Evolution of the opening angle of the orbit wit...

Evolution of the opening angle of the orbit with and without precession. Opening angle i...

Benjamin Proudfoot et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 8

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A corner plot showing the posterior distributio...

A corner plot showing the posterior distribution from our non-Keplerian orbit fit. At th...

Benjamin Proudfoot et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 8

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Phase measurements as a function of time with t...

Phase measurements as a function of time with the best-fit quadratic model with and with...

Rahul Sharma et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 1

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Phase-resolved spectroscopy with NICER (black) ...

Phase-resolved spectroscopy with NICER (black) and EP-FXT (red). The panels (from top to...

Rahul Sharma et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 1

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The ultracompact binaries with known orbital pe...

The ultracompact binaries with known orbital period and their derivative (﹩\dot{P}﹩) (Ta...

Rahul Sharma et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 1

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Spectral fit of eRASSU J060839.5–704014 using N...

Spectral fit of eRASSU J060839.5–704014 using NICER (left) and EP-FXT (right) modeled wi...

Rahul Sharma et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 1

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