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X–Z (left) and X–Y (right) slices. Top row: den...

X–Z (left) and X–Y (right) slices. Top row: density; middle row: charge density; bottom ...

Maxim Lyutikov, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1004 2

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Isosurfaces (annotated) of current j∥ = J · B/∣...

Isosurfaces (annotated) of current j∥ = J · B/∣B∣ and slices of jz at fixed z = 3 (top l...

Maxim Lyutikov, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1004 2

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The x–z slice (y = 0) of magnetic field lines a...

The x–z slice (y = 0) of magnetic field lines and color map of the current jy (out of th...

Maxim Lyutikov, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1004 2

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3D rendering of J · E, regions of intensive pla...

3D rendering of J · E, regions of intensive plasma–electromagnetic energy exchange. Plot...

Maxim Lyutikov, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1004 2

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Mimicking the BH: 3D rendering of the parallel ...

Mimicking the BH: 3D rendering of the parallel current (open boundary condition on the i...

Maxim Lyutikov, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1004 2

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Mimicking the BH: density and current slices fo...

Mimicking the BH: density and current slices for open boundary condition on the inner su...

Maxim Lyutikov, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1004 2

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Marginalized posterior probability distribution...

Marginalized posterior probability distributions for the M92 structural parameters and t...

Dejiang Yin et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1004 2

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Acceleration model for M92. Black curves show t...

Acceleration model for M92. Black curves show the maximum and minimum LOS accelerations ...

Dejiang Yin et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1004 2

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Discovery plot of M92B. Top: folded pulse profi...

Discovery plot of M92B. Top: folded pulse profile from the dedispersed time series produ...

Dejiang Yin et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1004 2

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Average pulse profile and timing residuals of M...

Average pulse profile and timing residuals of M92B. The left panel shows the integrated ...

Dejiang Yin et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1004 2

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The polarization profile of M92B at MJD 60310. ...

The polarization profile of M92B at MJD 60310. The black, red, and blue curves correspon...

Dejiang Yin et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1004 2

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WISE W1 versus Spitzer [3.6] magnitudes. The st...

WISE W1 versus Spitzer [3.6] magnitudes. The straight line is the one-to-one corresponde...

R. Brent Tully et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 1

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Top: B versus W1 magnitudes; bottom: B versus [...

Top: B versus W1 magnitudes; bottom: B versus [3.6] magnitudes. All on AB scale.

R. Brent Tully et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 1

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WISE W1 magnitudes from this program (horizonta...

WISE W1 magnitudes from this program (horizontal axis) versus from the WISE 100 largest ...

R. Brent Tully et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 1

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WISE W1 versus 2MASS Ks magnitudes.

WISE W1 versus 2MASS Ks magnitudes.

R. Brent Tully et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 1

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B − W1 color as a function of absolute W1 magni...

B − W1 color as a function of absolute W1 magnitude. Galaxy types are identified by colo...

R. Brent Tully et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 1

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Top: histogram of the 1–10 Mpc, MW1 < −13 mag s...

Top: histogram of the 1–10 Mpc, MW1 < −13 mag sample in increments of log stellar mass, ...

R. Brent Tully et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 1

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Cumulative sum of mass in stars (units 1010 M⊙)...

Cumulative sum of mass in stars (units 1010 M⊙) toward fainter MW1 magnitudes. Percentag...

R. Brent Tully et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 1

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Neutral and ion densities derived from NGIMS on...

Neutral and ion densities derived from NGIMS on board MAVEN, together with the correspon...

Wenjun Liang et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 1

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The altitude profiles of the ion production and...

The altitude profiles of the ion production and destruction rates in the same format as ...

Wenjun Liang et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 1

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(a) Altitude profiles of the LPW-measured elect...

(a) Altitude profiles of the LPW-measured electron temperature, Te,measured (green circl...

Wenjun Liang et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 1

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Comparison between ion production and destructi...

Comparison between ion production and destruction rates after applying the empirical ele...

Wenjun Liang et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 1

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MAVEN orbit distribution with altitude and SZA ...

MAVEN orbit distribution with altitude and SZA (panel (a)) and latitude and longitude (p...

Wenjun Liang et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 1

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The relative difference between the corrected i...

The relative difference between the corrected ion destruction rate and the ion productio...

Wenjun Liang et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 1

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Instrumental hybrid models and effective leakag...

Instrumental hybrid models and effective leakage. Top panels show the simulated frequenc...

Dipanjan Mitra, The Astronomical Journal 172 1

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