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Stream-to-initial-mass ratio versus total angul...

Stream-to-initial-mass ratio versus total angular momentum of the simulated streams at t...

Claire S. Ye and Raymond G. Carlberg, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 1

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Upper panel: simulated stream mass as a functio...

Upper panel: simulated stream mass as a function of initial cluster mass for streams vis...

Claire S. Ye and Raymond G. Carlberg, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 1

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Simulated remnant cluster mass as a function of...

Simulated remnant cluster mass as a function of initial cluster mass. Initially more mas...

Claire S. Ye and Raymond G. Carlberg, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 1

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Similar to Figure 2, but for remnant-cluster-to...

Similar to Figure 2, but for remnant-cluster-to-initial-mass ratio versus total angular ...

Claire S. Ye and Raymond G. Carlberg, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 1

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Log-log fit to the simulated initial cluster ma...

Log-log fit to the simulated initial cluster mass versus the present-day stream mass usi...

Claire S. Ye and Raymond G. Carlberg, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 1

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Log-log fit to the simulated initial cluster ma...

Log-log fit to the simulated initial cluster mass and the present-day cluster mass using...

Claire S. Ye and Raymond G. Carlberg, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 1

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Survival fractions fsv = Nsv/Ninitial of stream...

Survival fractions fsv = Nsv/Ninitial of streams and remnant star clusters from cosmolog...

Claire S. Ye and Raymond G. Carlberg, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 1

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Comparison between the adopted initial cluster ...

Comparison between the adopted initial cluster mass distributions in the simulations and...

Claire S. Ye and Raymond G. Carlberg, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 1

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The angular momentum as a function of mass for ...

The angular momentum as a function of mass for stellar streams (78 systems; A. Bonaca & ...

Claire S. Ye and Raymond G. Carlberg, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 1

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Inferred initial mass function for a sample of ...

Inferred initial mass function for a sample of Milky Way globular clusters and stellar s...

Claire S. Ye and Raymond G. Carlberg, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 1

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The eccentricity growth rate (upper) and the pr...

The eccentricity growth rate (upper) and the precession rate (lower) as a function of th...

Rebecca G. Martin et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 1

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Results of the SPH simulations. The disk eccent...

Results of the SPH simulations. The disk eccentricity, longitude of periapsis, and total...

Rebecca G. Martin et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 1

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The eccentricity growth rate (upper) and the pr...

The eccentricity growth rate (upper) and the precession rate (lower) as a function of th...

Rebecca G. Martin et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 1

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The disk surface density (upper) and eccentrici...

The disk surface density (upper) and eccentricity (lower) as a function of radius at a t...

Rebecca G. Martin et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 1

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XRISM/Xtend soft (red) and hard (black) LCs of ...

XRISM/Xtend soft (red) and hard (black) LCs of NGC 3783 during the flare, binned to 6 ks...

Gal Vardi et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 1

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The ratio between energy-sliced LCs of the flar...

The ratio between energy-sliced LCs of the flare in Figure 2 and the full LC at 0.3–12.0...

Gal Vardi et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 1

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Correlation between the hard X-ray LC and the d...

Correlation between the hard X-ray LC and the derivative of the soft X-ray LC demonstrat...

Gal Vardi et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 1

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(Top) XRISM/Xtend light curves (LCs) from the N...

(Top) XRISM/Xtend light curves (LCs) from the NGC 3783 observation campaign. Hard and so...

Gal Vardi et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 1

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The p-value (vertical axis) of the cross correl...

The p-value (vertical axis) of the cross correlation between the hard X-ray (7.2–12.0 ke...

Gal Vardi et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 1

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Correlation using XMM-Newton EPIC-PN data betwe...

Correlation using XMM-Newton EPIC-PN data between hard X-ray LC and the derivative of th...

Gal Vardi et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 1

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Hard X-ray (black) and UV (violet) LCs during t...

Hard X-ray (black) and UV (violet) LCs during the NGC 3783 flare observed by XRISM/Xtend...

Gal Vardi et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 1

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XRISM/Xtend spectra of the flare in three time ...

XRISM/Xtend spectra of the flare in three time slices: hard state before the flare at (1...

Gal Vardi et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 1

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Schematic illustration of the detected magnetic...

Schematic illustration of the detected magnetic reconnection event and ensuing processes...

Gal Vardi et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 1

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Top left: integrated intensity map of 12CO emis...

Top left: integrated intensity map of 12CO emission from cloud G146.845-00.095+005.80 (I...

Ruilin Xia et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 1

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Distribution of 12CO structures in the FWHM (Co...

Distribution of 12CO structures in the FWHM (Column (6) in Table 1) versus mean temperat...

Ruilin Xia et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 1

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