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Snapshots of the simulations with 0, 2, 4, 8, 1...

Snapshots of the simulations with 0, 2, 4, 8, 12, and 16 levels of splitting at t = 14.4...

Fangyi (Fitz) Hu et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 996 2

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The mean fraction of energy dissipated near the...

The mean fraction of energy dissipated near the pericenter. The fraction drops almost li...

Fangyi (Fitz) Hu et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 996 2

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Demonstration of the APR boundaries used (16 le...

Demonstration of the APR boundaries used (16 levels in the figure). The spherical bounda...

Fangyi (Fitz) Hu et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 996 2

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Difference in initial orbital energy and final ...

Difference in initial orbital energy and final orbital energy after splitting as a funct...

Fangyi (Fitz) Hu et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 996 2

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Measuring the specific thermal and kinetic ener...

Measuring the specific thermal and kinetic energies as a function of angular coordinate ...

Fangyi (Fitz) Hu et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 996 2

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Two-fluid model of the plasma flow in the magne...

Two-fluid model of the plasma flow in the magnetar magnetosphere. Panels (a) and (b) sho...

Shuzhe Zeng et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 996 2

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Results of the 1X1V simulations. Panels (a) and...

Results of the 1X1V simulations. Panels (a) and (b) show snapshots of the electric field...

Shuzhe Zeng et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 996 2

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Global model of radio emission from the magneta...

Global model of radio emission from the magnetar magnetosphere. The radio-emitting zone ...

Shuzhe Zeng et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 996 2

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Dispersion of the plasma modes in the 2X1V simu...

Dispersion of the plasma modes in the 2X1V simulation for vd/c = 0.5, ωptcool = 3000. In...

Shuzhe Zeng et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 996 2

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Dependence of the normalized Poynting vector, S...

Dependence of the normalized Poynting vector, SEM, of electromagnetic radiation escaping...

Shuzhe Zeng et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 996 2

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Snapshot during the quasi-steady state of the 2...

Snapshot during the quasi-steady state of the 2X1V simulation for vd/c = 0.5, ωptcool = ...

Shuzhe Zeng et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 996 2

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Poynting flux of the superluminal component of ...

Poynting flux of the superluminal component of the electromagnetic field in a simulation...

Shuzhe Zeng et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 996 2

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Fourier intensities of the magnetic field, ∣Bz(...

Fourier intensities of the magnetic field, ∣Bz(ω, k)∣2, calculated in four slices in dif...

Shuzhe Zeng et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 996 2

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The complete figure set (21 images) is availabl...

The complete figure set (21 images) is available in the online journal.

Cole R. Gregg and Paul A. Wiegert, The Planetary Science Journal 6 12

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The complete figure set (21 images) is availabl...

The complete figure set (21 images) is available in the online journal.

Cole R. Gregg and Paul A. Wiegert, The Planetary Science Journal 6 12

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The top panel shows the expected current popula...

The top panel shows the expected current population of ≥100 m particles in the inner sol...

Cole R. Gregg and Paul A. Wiegert, The Planetary Science Journal 6 12

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This is a zoomed-in version of the radiant plot...

This is a zoomed-in version of the radiant plot in Figure 2, focusing on the direction i...

Cole R. Gregg and Paul A. Wiegert, The Planetary Science Journal 6 12

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The complete figure set (21 images) is availabl...

The complete figure set (21 images) is available in the online journal.

Cole R. Gregg and Paul A. Wiegert, The Planetary Science Journal 6 12

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The dependence between ΔP and Δφ. The red circl...

The dependence between ΔP and Δφ. The red circle represents the best-fit values for the ...

Josef Ďurech et al, The Planetary Science Journal 6 12

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The correlation between ΔP and tchange. The red...

The correlation between ΔP and tchange. The red points represent the results based on th...

Josef Ďurech et al, The Planetary Science Journal 6 12

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Convex shape model of Didymos reconstructed fro...

Convex shape model of Didymos reconstructed from its light curves.

Josef Ďurech et al, The Planetary Science Journal 6 12

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Example light curves at which the difference be...

Example light curves at which the difference between the constant-period model (dashed b...

Josef Ďurech et al, The Planetary Science Journal 6 12

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Histograms of periods determined from bootstrap...

Histograms of periods determined from bootstrap samples for four subsets of light-curve ...

Josef Ďurech et al, The Planetary Science Journal 6 12

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The blue distribution represents a two-dimensio...

The blue distribution represents a two-dimensional histogram of the traditional equipart...

Nora B. Linzer et al, The Astrophysical Journal 996 1

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Each panel shows a two-dimensional histogram co...

Each panel shows a two-dimensional histogram comparing one prediction of the magnetic fi...

Nora B. Linzer et al, The Astrophysical Journal 996 1

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