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Contribution of individual molecular components...

Contribution of individual molecular components to the observed JWST/NIRSpec spectrum of...

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Best-fit spectral model of Makemake from 2.0 to...

Best-fit spectral model of Makemake from 2.0 to 4.8 μm. The observed JWST/NIRSpec spectr...

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JWST/NIRSpec IFU observations of Makemake and d...

JWST/NIRSpec IFU observations of Makemake and detected species. Panels (a) and (b) show ...

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Spectral modeling of Makemake over short, mediu...

Spectral modeling of Makemake over short, medium, and long wavelength ranges. Panels (a)...

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CH4 gas emission in Makemake’s spectrum. (a) Ob...

CH4 gas emission in Makemake’s spectrum. (a) Observed spectrum (black) with continuum fi...

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Illustration of the effect of compositional com...

Illustration of the effect of compositional complexity and layering geometry. Comparison...

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Posterior distributions of the free parameters ...

Posterior distributions of the free parameters in model F–Areal–3. Corner plot showing t...

Silvia Protopapa et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 991 2

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Posterior distributions of the free parameters ...

Posterior distributions of the free parameters in model F–Layered–4. Corner plot showing...

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Comparison of the imaginary part of the refract...

Comparison of the imaginary part of the refractive index (k) for CH4 and CH3D ices near ...

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Comparison of C2H6 and C2H4 optical constants. ...

Comparison of C2H6 and C2H4 optical constants. Panels (a) and (c) show the refractive in...

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Perihelion (squares) and equivalent (circles) t...

Perihelion (squares) and equivalent (circles) temperatures for a selection of TNOs, plot...

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A(C) distribution of our LR sample, as a functi...

A(C) distribution of our LR sample, as a function of [Fe/H]. The black and white scale r...

Young Sun Lee et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 991 2

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A(C) histograms of our LR sample in different r...

A(C) histograms of our LR sample in different ranges of [Fe/H]. Note that we adopt the H...

Young Sun Lee et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 991 2

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Cumulative frequencies, as a function of [Fe/H]...

Cumulative frequencies, as a function of [Fe/H], for our full sample of CEMP (black), CE...

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The Yoon–Beers diagram of the CEMP stars from o...

The Yoon–Beers diagram of the CEMP stars from our LR sample. Guided by the morphological...

Young Sun Lee et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 991 2

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Logarithmic number-density plot of our final SD...

Logarithmic number-density plot of our final SDSS/LAMOST sample in the [C/Fe]–[Fe/H] pla...

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Distribution of A(C) for the high-quality spect...

Distribution of A(C) for the high-quality spectra (S/N ≥ 30) of stars with [Fe/H] < −2.5...

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Similar to Figure 3, but with Group IV candidat...

Similar to Figure 3, but with Group IV candidates excluded (all stars in the blue box of...

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Panels (a) and (b) show EP/WXT images of EP J18...

Panels (a) and (b) show EP/WXT images of EP J182730.0−095633 from 2024 September 3 to 4 ...

H. Q. Cheng et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 991 2

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Long-term evolution of the multiwavelength prop...

Long-term evolution of the multiwavelength properties of EP J182730.0–095633. Top to bot...

H. Q. Cheng et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 991 2

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Joint spectral fitting of EP/FXT (module B, 0.5...

Joint spectral fitting of EP/FXT (module B, 0.5–10 keV) and NuSTAR (4–79 keV) with an ab...

H. Q. Cheng et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 991 2

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Power density spectra of the EP/FXTA data (left...

Power density spectra of the EP/FXTA data (left panel; ObsID 06800000091) and NuSTAR dat...

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Quasi-simultaneous X-ray vs. radio and NIR lumi...

Quasi-simultaneous X-ray vs. radio and NIR luminosities for LMXBs, including EP J182730....

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Left panel: the rms spectrum calculated using t...

Left panel: the rms spectrum calculated using the same data set as Figure 2 (EP/FXT+NuST...

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PSDs of EP/FXT and NICER during the outburst. T...

PSDs of EP/FXT and NICER during the outburst. The centroid frequency of the most promine...

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