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Corrected absolute magnitude (H; P. Pravec et a...

Corrected absolute magnitude (H; P. Pravec et al. 2012) vs. NEATM-derived beaming parame...

Annika Gustafsson et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Corrected absolute magnitude (H; P. Pravec et a...

Corrected absolute magnitude (H; P. Pravec et al. 2012) vs. NEATM-derived geometric albe...

Annika Gustafsson et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Spectrophotometric slope vs. H-magnitude. Spect...

Spectrophotometric slope vs. H-magnitude. Spectrophotometric slopes of Koronis family ta...

Annika Gustafsson et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Histogram of ATLAS c − o colors for our targets...

Histogram of ATLAS c − o colors for our targets compared with the expected mean Bus–DeMe...

Annika Gustafsson et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Top: histogram of spectral slope for Koronis fa...

Top: histogram of spectral slope for Koronis family members (black) and Karin cluster me...

Annika Gustafsson et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Beaming parameter η (left) and geometric albedo...

Beaming parameter η (left) and geometric albedo pV (right) vs. absolute magnitude H for ...

Annika Gustafsson et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Thermal conductivity as a function of regolith ...

Thermal conductivity as a function of regolith particle radius for Gaspra (top) and Ida ...

Annika Gustafsson et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Best-fit NEATM SED for the two ground-truth tar...

Best-fit NEATM SED for the two ground-truth targets in this work: 951 Gaspra (left) and ...

Annika Gustafsson et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Phased ATLAS photometric data for six Koronis f...

Phased ATLAS photometric data for six Koronis family targets without previously publishe...

Annika Gustafsson et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Corner plot for the posterior probability distr...

Corner plot for the posterior probability distributions of NEATM-derived D, pV, and η fo...

Annika Gustafsson et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Continuation of Figure 12, showing corner plots...

Continuation of Figure 12, showing corner plots of the posterior probability distributio...

Annika Gustafsson et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Continuation of Figures 10 and 11, showing corn...

Continuation of Figures 10 and 11, showing corner plots of the posterior probability dis...

Annika Gustafsson et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Continuation of Figures 10–12, showing corner p...

Continuation of Figures 10–12, showing corner plots of the posterior probability distrib...

Annika Gustafsson et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Taxonomic classification for all targets in thi...

Taxonomic classification for all targets in this work with available visible to near-inf...

Annika Gustafsson et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Continuation of Figure 10, showing taxonomic cl...

Continuation of Figure 10, showing taxonomic classification fits for the remaining Koron...

Annika Gustafsson et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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A median-stacked image of all eight 370 s scien...

A median-stacked image of all eight 370 s science exposures taken by HST WFC3 of V6 on 2...

John W. Noonan and Theodore Kareta, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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A secular light curve (e.g., apparent magnitude...

A secular light curve (e.g., apparent magnitude over time) of V6 is shown with data acce...

John W. Noonan and Theodore Kareta, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Evolutions of fiducial planetesimals with diffe...

Evolutions of fiducial planetesimals with different chondritic compositions. Each plot i...

Bo Peng et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Chemical equilibrium with four chondritic redox...

Chemical equilibrium with four chondritic redox states. Top: total equilibrium pressures...

Bo Peng et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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The fraction of total carbon reservoir left at ...

The fraction of total carbon reservoir left at 10 Myr, relative to a planetesimal’s init...

Bo Peng et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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C depletion and sintering outcomes of NC planet...

C depletion and sintering outcomes of NC planetesimals of varying sizes. The bodies have...

Bo Peng et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Same as Figure 5, but with CC bodies.

Bo Peng et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Top: final bulk C abundances relative to the in...

Top: final bulk C abundances relative to the initial reservoir of CV (red lines) and OC ...

Bo Peng et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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(a) Depth of the ignition point relative to the...

(a) Depth of the ignition point relative to the total radius at the time of ignition vs....

Bo Peng et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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C depletion and sintering outcomes of (a) OC an...

C depletion and sintering outcomes of (a) OC and (b) CV bodies with varying timings of a...

Bo Peng et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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