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Equilibrium cloud condensation models (ECCMs) o...

Equilibrium cloud condensation models (ECCMs) of the atmospheres of Saturn and Uranus. T...

Alex B. Akins and Mark D. Hofstadter, The Planetary Science Journal 7 9

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Achievable planetographic spatial (i.e., latitu...

Achievable planetographic spatial (i.e., latitude/longitude) resolution with 0.5 K sensi...

Alex B. Akins and Mark D. Hofstadter, The Planetary Science Journal 7 9

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Degrees of freedom for signal (top) and Shannon...

Degrees of freedom for signal (top) and Shannon information content (bottom) for MWR sou...

Alex B. Akins and Mark D. Hofstadter, The Planetary Science Journal 7 9

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Example weighting functions for selected microw...

Example weighting functions for selected microwave frequencies (logarithmically spaced b...

Alex B. Akins and Mark D. Hofstadter, The Planetary Science Journal 7 9

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Aperture sizing calculations for microwave remo...

Aperture sizing calculations for microwave remote sensing of giant planets. Top: apertur...

Alex B. Akins and Mark D. Hofstadter, The Planetary Science Journal 7 9

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Normalized change in brightness temperature as ...

Normalized change in brightness temperature as a function of wavelength (left) and peak ...

Alex B. Akins and Mark D. Hofstadter, The Planetary Science Journal 7 9

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Nadir brightness temperature (A, C) and limb-da...

Nadir brightness temperature (A, C) and limb-darkening spectra (B, D, R(θ) = ∣TB(0) − TB...

Alex B. Akins and Mark D. Hofstadter, The Planetary Science Journal 7 9

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Vertical resolution (Backus–Gilbert spread) for...

Vertical resolution (Backus–Gilbert spread) for MWR measurements of the atmospheres of S...

Alex B. Akins and Mark D. Hofstadter, The Planetary Science Journal 7 9

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Effect of perturbing the deep abundance of H2O ...

Effect of perturbing the deep abundance of H2O (A), (B) and NH3 (C), (D) on Saturn’s mic...

Alex B. Akins and Mark D. Hofstadter, The Planetary Science Journal 7 9

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Effect of perturbing the deep abundance of H2O ...

Effect of perturbing the deep abundance of H2O (top), NH3 (middle), and H2S (bottom) on ...

Alex B. Akins and Mark D. Hofstadter, The Planetary Science Journal 7 9

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Ground-based centimeter-to-meter-wavelength spe...

Ground-based centimeter-to-meter-wavelength spectra for Saturn and Uranus, including obs...

Alex B. Akins and Mark D. Hofstadter, The Planetary Science Journal 7 9

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Spectral decomposition and simulated CPI-C phot...

Spectral decomposition and simulated CPI-C photometry for the synthetic giant planet. Th...

Yiming Zhu et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 4

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A posterior comparison for the synthetic warm g...

A posterior comparison for the synthetic warm giant. The upper panels show Gaussian kern...

Yiming Zhu et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 4

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A comparison of the VIS4-only, NIR4-only, and V...

A comparison of the VIS4-only, NIR4-only, and VIS4+NIR4 retrievals for the synthetic gia...

Yiming Zhu et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 4

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Thermal-emission planet–star contrasts predicte...

Thermal-emission planet–star contrasts predicted for HR 8799 b, c, d, and e from the ado...

Yiming Zhu et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 4

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PSG-based albedo spectra adopting an HST Jupite...

PSG-based albedo spectra adopting an HST Jupiter template as a baseline, illustrating th...

Yiming Zhu et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 4

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Representative reflected-light spectra overlaid...

Representative reflected-light spectra overlaid with the adopted optical bandpasses (tra...

Yiming Zhu et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 4

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Adopted bandpass transmission curves. These cur...

Adopted bandpass transmission curves. These curves represent the system throughput, inco...

Yiming Zhu et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 4

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NIR model spectra (900–1600 nm) generated from ...

NIR model spectra (900–1600 nm) generated from the self-consistent Exo-REM grid for HR 8...

Yiming Zhu et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 4

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Model fits to the synthetic warm giant for thre...

Model fits to the synthetic warm giant for three photometric data combinations. The pane...

Yiming Zhu et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 4

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Posterior distributions from MCMC fits to the s...

Posterior distributions from MCMC fits to the synthetic VIS4 photometry generated in Sce...

Yiming Zhu et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 4

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Methane-sensitive photometric diagnostics for t...

Methane-sensitive photometric diagnostics for the controlled methane-abundance sweep. Le...

Yiming Zhu et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 4

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A benchmark Sonora Diamondback fit to β Pic b. ...

A benchmark Sonora Diamondback fit to β Pic b. The fit combines the GPI Y/J/H spectrosco...

Yiming Zhu et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 4

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Visible-band Scenario A: VIS4 contrasts for the...

Visible-band Scenario A: VIS4 contrasts for the ([M/H], fsed) grid at a fixed phase and ...

Yiming Zhu et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 4

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Visible-band Scenario B: VIS4 contrasts for a c...

Visible-band Scenario B: VIS4 contrasts for a controlled methane-abundance sweep under t...

Yiming Zhu et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 4

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Updated Search and Sort

We have updated the search and sort algorithm to return records in reverse chronological order based on the date/time that the images were uploaded to the Astronomy Image Explorer. This is potentially but rarely different from the publication date. Thank you!