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Faint blue stars in the Gaia Catalog of Nearby ...

Faint blue stars in the Gaia Catalog of Nearby Stars. These are the blue symbols. In thi...

Jeremy Mould, Research Notes of the AAS 10 6

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Upper panels: maps of N × ρ for CO, CO2, CH4, C...

Upper panels: maps of N × ρ for CO, CO2, CH4, CH3OH, and H2O. The white arrow shows the ...

Nathan X. Roth et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1005 1

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Left: observed azimuthally averaged Trot for CO...

Left: observed azimuthally averaged Trot for CO, CH3OH, H2O, CO2, and CH4. Right: modele...

Nathan X. Roth et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1005 1

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Upper panels: maps of N × ρ for ortho-H2O and p...

Upper panels: maps of N × ρ for ortho-H2O and para-H2O, the derived OPR, and Trot(H2O) f...

Nathan X. Roth et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1005 1

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From top: maps of differences between N and Tro...

From top: maps of differences between N and Trot for optically thick and optically thin ...

Nathan X. Roth et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1005 1

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JWST spectrum of 3I/ATLAS extracted in a ...

JWST spectrum of 3I/ATLAS extracted in a ﹩1\mathop{.}\limits^{^{\prime\prime} }5﹩ diamet...

Nathan X. Roth et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1005 1

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Left: map of the 2.2 μm continuum intensity, me...

Left: map of the 2.2 μm continuum intensity, measured on December 22, multiplied by ρ. R...

Nathan X. Roth et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1005 1

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Left: H2O map in 3I/ATLAS on December 22. Right...

Left: H2O map in 3I/ATLAS on December 22. Right: H2O map in 3I/ATLAS on December 23.

Nathan X. Roth et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1005 1

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Histogram of spaxel-by-spaxel OPR values for H2...

Histogram of spaxel-by-spaxel OPR values for H2O drawn within a 10 spaxel radius of the ...

Nathan X. Roth et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1005 1

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Upper: 3I/ATLAS 3 μm spectrum with total molecu...

Upper: 3I/ATLAS 3 μm spectrum with total molecular emission model and spectral baseline ...

Nathan X. Roth et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1005 1

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Baseline-subtracted Ni I 3.119 and 3.951 μm spe...

Baseline-subtracted Ni I 3.119 and 3.951 μm spectra in 3I/ATLAS extracted from a nucleus...

Nathan X. Roth et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1005 1

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Left: N(Ni I) map of the 3.119 μm transition in...

Left: N(Ni I) map of the 3.119 μm transition in 3I/ATLAS. Right: N(Ni I)×ρ for the 3.119...

Nathan X. Roth et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1005 1

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Evolution of the stellar mass function of obser...

Evolution of the stellar mass function of observed open clusters. (a) The global mass fu...

Lu Li et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1005 1

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Evolution of the stellar mass function slope, s...

Evolution of the stellar mass function slope, same as Figure 1, but overlaid with the fi...

Lu Li et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1005 1

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Astrometric velocity points for 14 Her showing ...

Astrometric velocity points for 14 Her showing both a long-term Gaia–Hipparcos trend, at...

William Thompson et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 1

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Marginal mass–separation posteriors from absolu...

Marginal mass–separation posteriors from absolute astrometry for 25 stellar binaries wit...

William Thompson et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 1

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Example astrometric velocity points for Gliese ...

Example astrometric velocity points for Gliese 229 A showing how the long-term trend bet...

William Thompson et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 1

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Mass–separation marginal posterior for 14 Her (...

Mass–separation marginal posterior for 14 Her (HIP 79248). The small points represent dr...

William Thompson et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 1

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Astrometric velocity points for PDS 70, a sourc...

Astrometric velocity points for PDS 70, a source with no Hipparcos data available. By co...

William Thompson et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 1

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Posterior for the system HIP 389 (Blanco 1-W86)...

Posterior for the system HIP 389 (Blanco 1-W86), a spectroscopic binary (J. F. González ...

William Thompson et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 1

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The calibration uncertainty (σcal) estimated fo...

The calibration uncertainty (σcal) estimated for GDR3, following F. Kiefer et al. (2025)...

William Thompson et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 1

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The along-scan uncertainty (σAL) estimated for ...

The along-scan uncertainty (σAL) estimated for GDR3, following F. Kiefer et al. (2025). ...

William Thompson et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 1

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The attitude uncertainty (σatt) estimated for G...

The attitude uncertainty (σatt) estimated for GDR3, following F. Kiefer et al. (2025). W...

William Thompson et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 1

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Marginal mass–separation posteriors from absolu...

Marginal mass–separation posteriors from absolute astrometry for 50 exoplanetary systems...

William Thompson et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 1

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Joint posterior distributions for the orbital p...

Joint posterior distributions for the orbital parameters and true masses of 14 Her b (le...

William Thompson et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 1

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