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Evolution of the flow through a single vent of ...

Evolution of the flow through a single vent of radius Rv = 10 mm. Solid blue line: mass ...

S. Boccelli et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Airlock depressurization curves during venting ...

Airlock depressurization curves during venting from two valves each with an equivalent r...

S. Boccelli et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Simplified geometry employed in our simulations.

S. Boccelli et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Artist’s rendering of the Multi-Purpose Habitat...

Artist’s rendering of the Multi-Purpose Habitation lunar module (MPH, left) and of the L...

S. Boccelli et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Detail of the computational grid employed in th...

Detail of the computational grid employed in the front-facing vent configuration. Furthe...

S. Boccelli et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Position of the airlock depressurization vents ...

Position of the airlock depressurization vents for the simulations of Case 1 (left) and ...

S. Boccelli et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Contours of the number density, scaled with the...

Contours of the number density, scaled with the vent density. Left: front-facing vent co...

S. Boccelli et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Incident particle flux to the module surfaces n...

Incident particle flux to the module surfaces normalized with the flux injected from one...

S. Boccelli et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Top: incident particle flux at a distance from ...

Top: incident particle flux at a distance from the module, normalized with the flux inje...

S. Boccelli et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Outgassing simulations. Deposition rates in the...

Outgassing simulations. Deposition rates in the vicinity of the module (left) and at a d...

S. Boccelli et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Lateral contamination on the lunar surface from...

Lateral contamination on the lunar surface from the solar panels and the MLI (high- and ...

S. Boccelli et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Deposited fluxes from the solar panels and the ...

Deposited fluxes from the solar panels and the MLI up to 5 km from the surface module. L...

S. Boccelli et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Spectral energy distribution of the EBL at z = ...

Spectral energy distribution of the EBL at z = 0. Top panel: reconstruction from our phy...

J. Baxter et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1003 1

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Reconstructed optical depth τ as a function of ...

Reconstructed optical depth τ as a function of γ-ray energy in four redshift bins: top l...

J. Baxter et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1003 1

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Residual between our γ-ray-derived extragalacti...

Residual between our γ-ray-derived extragalactic background light intensity and IGL meas...

J. Baxter et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1003 1

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Stacked ΔTS as a function of the EBL scaling fa...

Stacked ΔTS as a function of the EBL scaling factor α for the four models used in the op...

J. Baxter et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1003 1

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Residual comparison between direct measurements...

Residual comparison between direct measurements of the EBL and γ-ray reconstructions. Th...

J. Baxter et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1003 1

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Fraction of the EBL that may remain as a diffus...

Fraction of the EBL that may remain as a diffuse component in three broad wavelength ban...

J. Baxter et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1003 1

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Upper panel: probability distribution of the su...

Upper panel: probability distribution of the suppression factor for WDs with a close (pu...

Zhangliang Chen et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1003 1

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Well-constrained WDs with substellar companions...

Well-constrained WDs with substellar companions (BDs or giant planets). The terms “close...

Zhangliang Chen et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1003 1

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Probability distribution of metal-pollution fra...

Probability distribution of metal-pollution fraction. The blue and purple lines represen...

Zhangliang Chen et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1003 1

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Simulation results for dynamical shielding scen...

Simulation results for dynamical shielding scenario. Left panel: protection rates (Fprot...

Zhangliang Chen et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1003 1

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(a) Spatial distribution of stars in the C-19 s...

(a) Spatial distribution of stars in the C-19 stream. (b) vr versus δ for C-19 stars. Ea...

Zhen Wang et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1003 1

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The figure shows the evolution of the virial ra...

The figure shows the evolution of the virial ratio of star clusters under different mode...

Zhen Wang et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1003 1

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The simulation of orbit. (a) The orbit in the (...

The simulation of orbit. (a) The orbit in the (vr,δ) space. The red dots mark the observ...

Zhen Wang et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1003 1

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