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Examples of interesting objects found by the SN...

Examples of interesting objects found by the SNAD anomaly detection pipeline in ZTF DR 2...

Maria V. Pruzhinskaya et al, Research Notes of the AAS 10 8

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Same as in Figure 3, but for NGC 1566, NGC 2617...

Same as in Figure 3, but for NGC 1566, NGC 2617, Mkn 1018, and IRAS 23226-3843.

Marios Kouzis et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 1

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Integrated thermal timescale tth,int (red dashe...

Integrated thermal timescale tth,int (red dashed) and front propagation timescale tfp (b...

Marios Kouzis et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 1

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Parametric grid of S-curves in the λEdd–Σ plane...

Parametric grid of S-curves in the λEdd–Σ plane. Rows correspond to R = 6, 20, 100 RSchw...

Marios Kouzis et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 1

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Theoretical S-curves at the λEdd–Σ plane, at th...

Theoretical S-curves at the λEdd–Σ plane, at the literature black hole mass of Mkn 590 a...

Marios Kouzis et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 1

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Vertically integrated thermal timescales tth,in...

Vertically integrated thermal timescales tth,int (faded lower curves), front propagation...

Marios Kouzis et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 1

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The accretion states of a CLAGN across the magn...

The accretion states of a CLAGN across the magnetic S-curve. The left panel shows the th...

Marios Kouzis et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 1

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Fermi-LAT light curves of 1H 1934–063 obtained ...

Fermi-LAT light curves of 1H 1934–063 obtained with the FL16Y source model. The panels c...

Yangji Li et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 1

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TS map (left) and residual map (right) in the 1...

TS map (left) and residual map (right) in the 1–500 GeV band for the flare interval MJD ...

Yangji Li et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 1

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Spectral decomposition of the 6dFGS Hβ–[O III] ...

Spectral decomposition of the 6dFGS Hβ–[O III] region for 1H 1934−063. The upper panel s...

Yangji Li et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 1

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Nonsimultaneous broadband spectral energy distr...

Nonsimultaneous broadband spectral energy distribution of 1H 1934−063. The gray points s...

Yangji Li et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 1

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Semimajor axis–eccentricity distributions of th...

Semimajor axis–eccentricity distributions of the bodies at the end of the simulations. P...

Samuele Crespi et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 2

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Body mass distributions at the end of the two s...

Body mass distributions at the end of the two simulations. The SyMBA simulation produces...

Samuele Crespi et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 2

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Evolution of the solid mass budget over time in...

Evolution of the solid mass budget over time in our nominal simulation. A catastrophic c...

Samuele Crespi et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 2

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The time evolution of the water and total masse...

The time evolution of the water and total masses for our Earth analog. While both total ...

Samuele Crespi et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 2

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Time evolution of the number of particles in th...

Time evolution of the number of particles in the simulation, by type. While all particle...

Samuele Crespi et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 2

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The cumulative mass removed from the simulation...

The cumulative mass removed from the simulation over time, separated by sink type. Mass ...

Samuele Crespi et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 2

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The time evolution of the nominal simulation’s ...

The time evolution of the nominal simulation’s relative energy error.

Samuele Crespi et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 2

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Distribution of all impact angles in our nomina...

Distribution of all impact angles in our nominal simulation. The average is 45° as expec...

Samuele Crespi et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 2

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The effect a variety of variables have on the m...

The effect a variety of variables have on the mass of the largest remnant postcollision.

Samuele Crespi et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 2

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The effect a variety of variables have on the m...

The effect a variety of variables have on the mass of the fragments postcollision.

Samuele Crespi et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 2

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Distributions of selected light-curve propertie...

Distributions of selected light-curve properties in different photometric bands. From to...

Andjelka B. Kovačević et al, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 285 2

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Violin diagrams of vetting metrics for AGN flag...

Violin diagrams of vetting metrics for AGN flagged as medium (distributions with interqu...

Andjelka B. Kovačević et al, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 285 2

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LSST DP1 sky map overplotted with the distribut...

LSST DP1 sky map overplotted with the distribution of AGN from external catalogs that ar...

Andjelka B. Kovačević et al, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 285 2

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The redshift distribution of the extracted AGN ...

The redshift distribution of the extracted AGN sample includes 1438 out of 1456 sources ...

Andjelka B. Kovačević et al, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 285 2

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