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(Top) Maps of the lunar nearside (left) and far...

(Top) Maps of the lunar nearside (left) and farside (right) showing estimated surface re...

Andrea Rajšić et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 7

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Regolith thickness as a function of surface age...

Regolith thickness as a function of surface age, compared to the lunar chronology functi...

Andrea Rajšić et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 7

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Logistic regression analysis of rock excavation...

Logistic regression analysis of rock excavation onset in the lunar highlands (left) and ...

Andrea Rajšić et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 7

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(A) A bowl-shaped nREC with a diameter, D = 30 ...

(A) A bowl-shaped nREC with a diameter, D = 30 m. (B) nREC with diameter, D = 80 m. (C) ...

Andrea Rajšić et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 7

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Bootstrap distributions of terrain-averaged reg...

Bootstrap distributions of terrain-averaged regolith thickness derived from logistic reg...

Andrea Rajšić et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 7

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(Top) Comparison of crater distributions in Lun...

(Top) Comparison of crater distributions in Lunar maria. The nREC crater population is s...

Andrea Rajšić et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 7

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Points marked in orange are 13 different areas ...

Points marked in orange are 13 different areas where we mapped 346 fresh-looking craters...

Andrea Rajšić et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 7

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(a) Spatial distribution of the low-energy cosm...

(a) Spatial distribution of the low-energy cosmic-ray ionization rate (LECRIR); (b) medi...

Ningyu Tang et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1005 2

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Integrated intensity of H I (panel (a)) and 13C...

Integrated intensity of H I (panel (a)) and 13CO(1–0) (panel (b)) toward the Orion regio...

Ningyu Tang et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1005 2

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Fitting profile of HINSA toward the positions A...

Fitting profile of HINSA toward the positions A–E shown in Figure 1. The top panel shows...

Ningyu Tang et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1005 2

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(a) Gamma-ray counts map across the energy rang...

(a) Gamma-ray counts map across the energy range of 0.1–1 GeV; (b) the derived gamma-ray...

Ningyu Tang et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1005 2

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Spatial distribution of the HINSA column densit...

Spatial distribution of the HINSA column density, N(HINSA) (top panel), and the HINSA ab...

Ningyu Tang et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1005 2

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Distribution of the ratio between the LECRIR de...

Distribution of the ratio between the LECRIR derived under the steady-state assumption a...

Ningyu Tang et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1005 2

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Derived H I abundance (upper panels) and gas te...

Derived H I abundance (upper panels) and gas temperatures (lower panels) for a variable-...

Ningyu Tang et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1005 2

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Cosmic-ray energy densities in different region...

Cosmic-ray energy densities in different regions of the Orion molecular cloud. The cosmi...

Ningyu Tang et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1005 2

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Observed and synthesized optical light curves a...

Observed and synthesized optical light curves are shown. The shown points of g (green), ...

Ryo Sawada et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1005 2

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Unified temporal picture of SN 2023uqf and IC-2...

Unified temporal picture of SN 2023uqf and IC-231004A. The colored curves and points sho...

Ryo Sawada et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1005 2

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Top: the neutrino spectral energy luminosity at...

Top: the neutrino spectral energy luminosity at different time slices, with the blue lin...

Ryo Sawada et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1005 2

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Top: the expected differential detected event r...

Top: the expected differential detected event rates at IceCube at different time slices ...

Ryo Sawada et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1005 2

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RHD-derived shock evolution used as input to th...

RHD-derived shock evolution used as input to the neutrino calculation. Top: forward-shoc...

Ryo Sawada et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1005 2

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RRL spectra toward G15.85+0.10 (left), G24.07−0...

RRL spectra toward G15.85+0.10 (left), G24.07−0.59 (center) and G31.00−0.91 (right). Fro...

Pedro Salas et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 2

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GDIGS RRL spectra toward G15.85+0.10 (left), G2...

GDIGS RRL spectra toward G15.85+0.10 (left), G24.07−0.59 (center), and G31.00−0.91 (righ...

Pedro Salas et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 2

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Posterior probability distributions for the mod...

Posterior probability distributions for the model parameters from the validation exercis...

Pedro Salas et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 2

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Effects of increasing the S/N of one or all mea...

Effects of increasing the S/N of one or all measurements in the posterior distribution f...

Pedro Salas et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 2

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Radio continuum SEDs for the three regions obse...

Radio continuum SEDs for the three regions observed with the GBT in RRLs. The radio cont...

Pedro Salas et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 2

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