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Variability analysis results for four known exo...

Variability analysis results for four known exoplanet hosts (from top to bottom): HD 110...

Emilie R. Simpson et al, The Astronomical Journal 166 2

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A graph comparing the variability period of the...

A graph comparing the variability period of the host star to the reported orbital period...

Emilie R. Simpson et al, The Astronomical Journal 166 2

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Left: a scatter plot that represents the mass–r...

Left: a scatter plot that represents the mass–radius relationship of known planets aroun...

Emilie R. Simpson et al, The Astronomical Journal 166 2

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The variable stars with known exoplanets colore...

The variable stars with known exoplanets colored by the detection method of their planet...

Emilie R. Simpson et al, The Astronomical Journal 166 2

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Top: a histogram of the known host population’s...

Top: a histogram of the known host population’s effective temperature, separated by spec...

Emilie R. Simpson et al, The Astronomical Journal 166 2

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Top: the initial population of variable stars (...

Top: the initial population of variable stars (Fetherolf et al. 2022) colored by their m...

Emilie R. Simpson et al, The Astronomical Journal 166 2

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Our fit to the Strömgren (b + y)/2 photometry f...

Our fit to the Strömgren (b + y)/2 photometry from Lothringer et al. (2018), mimicking t...

R. O. Parke Loyd et al, The Astronomical Journal 165 4

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Cumulative frequency distribution of the GJ 436...

Cumulative frequency distribution of the GJ 436 flares in the FUV130 band. The gray regi...

R. O. Parke Loyd et al, The Astronomical Journal 165 4

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Lightcurve of the summed emission line flux at ...

Lightcurve of the summed emission line flux at a 10 s cadence. We shortened the gaps in ...

R. O. Parke Loyd et al, The Astronomical Journal 165 4

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Coadded spectrum of GJ 436. The range of the pl...

Coadded spectrum of GJ 436. The range of the plot matches that of the FUV130 band. The g...

R. O. Parke Loyd et al, The Astronomical Journal 165 4

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Fits to the rotational modulations of the flux ...

Fits to the rotational modulations of the flux in each of the analyzed bands during the ...

R. O. Parke Loyd et al, The Astronomical Journal 165 4

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Summed line flux (blue points), binned by HST v...

Summed line flux (blue points), binned by HST visit, across all three epochs of HST data...

R. O. Parke Loyd et al, The Astronomical Journal 165 4

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Fluxes plotted against planetary orbital phase....

Fluxes plotted against planetary orbital phase. The planet’s optical transit spans a nar...

R. O. Parke Loyd et al, The Astronomical Journal 165 4

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Summary of contributions from various sources t...

Summary of contributions from various sources to the FUV variability of GJ 436. The arro...

R. O. Parke Loyd et al, The Astronomical Journal 165 4

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Correlations between the variability in each of...

Correlations between the variability in each of the analyzed bands. The FUV130 and summe...

R. O. Parke Loyd et al, The Astronomical Journal 165 4

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Corrected Figure 2 of C.-C. Ngeow & A. Bhardwaj...

Corrected Figure 2 of C.-C. Ngeow & A. Bhardwaj (2025). The cyan contours represent {1, ...

Chow-Choong Ngeow and Anupam Bhardwaj, The Astronomical Journal 169 4

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The values of χ2 × MAD as a function of mean r-...

The values of χ2 × MAD as a function of mean r-band magnitudes for the SDSS DR16 stars w...

Chow-Choong Ngeow and Anupam Bhardwaj, The Astronomical Journal 169 3

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A coadded image by median-combined all of the L...

A coadded image by median-combined all of the LOT images using SWARP (E. Bertin et al. 2...

Chow-Choong Ngeow and Anupam Bhardwaj, The Astronomical Journal 169 3

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Left panel: folded light curves for the candida...

Left panel: folded light curves for the candidate variable star assuming it is an ab-typ...

Chow-Choong Ngeow and Anupam Bhardwaj, The Astronomical Journal 169 3

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The gri-band phased light curves for the potent...

The gri-band phased light curves for the potential RR Lyrae identified in Section 2.2. T...

Chow-Choong Ngeow and Anupam Bhardwaj, The Astronomical Journal 169 3

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Two examples of the synthetic CMD without (left...

Two examples of the synthetic CMD without (left panels) and with (right panels; shown as...

Chow-Choong Ngeow and Anupam Bhardwaj, The Astronomical Journal 169 3

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Top panels: the constructed beam pattern with t...

Top panels: the constructed beam pattern with the first 23 orders of ZP modes. All the b...

Xinyang Zhao et al, The Astronomical Journal 169 5

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The stacked beam patterns for four different be...

The stacked beam patterns for four different beams (Beam01, Beam02, Beam08, and Beam19) ...

Xinyang Zhao et al, The Astronomical Journal 169 5

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The residual histogram distribution of all the ...

The residual histogram distribution of all the beams in the same beam subset, i.e., the ...

Xinyang Zhao et al, The Astronomical Journal 169 5

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The positions of the feeds in the frame of the ...

The positions of the feeds in the frame of the FAST L-band 19FA. The circles are the FAS...

Xinyang Zhao et al, The Astronomical Journal 169 5

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