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Impact of MIRI photometry on QG selection. Top ...

Impact of MIRI photometry on QG selection. Top left: migration of galaxies in the sSFR–M...

Tiancheng Yang et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 2

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The mass-dependent number density evolution of ...

The mass-dependent number density evolution of QGs. Error bars represent the combined ef...

Tiancheng Yang et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 2

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The UVJ color–color diagram for the photometric...

The UVJ color–color diagram for the photometric sample with M⋆ > 109.0 M⊙. The comoving ...

Tiancheng Yang et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 2

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The redshift evolution of the QG fraction in di...

The redshift evolution of the QG fraction in different stellar mass bins. Predictions fr...

Tiancheng Yang et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 2

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Left panel: the SMF of QGs at 2 < z < 8, fitted...

Left panel: the SMF of QGs at 2 < z < 8, fitted with a single Schechter function. Galaxi...

Tiancheng Yang et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 2

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(Top left) The 2.1 μm (black) and 3–10 keV NuST...

(Top left) The 2.1 μm (black) and 3–10 keV NuSTAR (green) light curves of Sgr A* show a ...

F. Yusef-Zadeh et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 2

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(Top left) Correlation of X-ray flare emission ...

(Top left) Correlation of X-ray flare emission detected by NuSTAR with NIR flare emissio...

F. Yusef-Zadeh et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 2

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A schematic diagram of how X-ray flare emission...

A schematic diagram of how X-ray flare emission from Sgr A* is generated by ICS of NIR p...

F. Yusef-Zadeh et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 2

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Model broadband spectrum of Sgr A* during the p...

Model broadband spectrum of Sgr A* during the peak of the JWST/NuSTAR flare. The blue cu...

F. Yusef-Zadeh et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 2

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(Top) The blue curve shows the synchrotron flux...

(Top) The blue curve shows the synchrotron flux density of a homogeneous thermal disk, f...

F. Yusef-Zadeh et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 2

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(Top) The normal stellar field at 2.1 μm of NIR...

(Top) The normal stellar field at 2.1 μm of NIRCam of JWST surrounding Sgr A* (left), an...

F. Yusef-Zadeh et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 2

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(Left) Superimposed on the NIR light curve at 2...

(Left) Superimposed on the NIR light curve at 2.1 μm are the light curves of Sgr A* at 1...

F. Yusef-Zadeh et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 2

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Predicted X-ray flare luminosities arising from...

Predicted X-ray flare luminosities arising from Compton upscattering of disk and flare s...

F. Yusef-Zadeh et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 2

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(Left) The plots show the light curves at the l...

(Left) The plots show the light curves at the lowest and highest radio frequencies, and ...

F. Yusef-Zadeh et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 2

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The IR to X-ray SED at the peak of the flare at...

The IR to X-ray SED at the peak of the flare at UT 10.5 hr on 2024 April 5. Orange and g...

F. Yusef-Zadeh et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 2

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Best-fit adiabatically expanding synchrotron so...

Best-fit adiabatically expanding synchrotron source models for the radio light curves on...

F. Yusef-Zadeh et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 2

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(Left) Calculated time delay between pairs of r...

(Left) Calculated time delay between pairs of radio bands, plotted as a function of the ...

F. Yusef-Zadeh et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 2

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(Top left) Light curve of Sgr A* at 2.1 μm take...

(Top left) Light curve of Sgr A* at 2.1 μm taken on 2024 April 5. (Top right) Same as to...

F. Yusef-Zadeh et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 2

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Schematic diagrams of the four different channe...

Schematic diagrams of the four different channels of inverse Compton upscattering that p...

F. Yusef-Zadeh et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 2

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Magnetic energy spectra eM(k) compensated by th...

Magnetic energy spectra eM(k) compensated by the Kazantsev scaling k3/2 and normalized b...

Frederick A. Gent et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 2

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(a)–(d) Magnetic energy spectra eM(k) at a give...

(a)–(d) Magnetic energy spectra eM(k) at a given Pm for models listed in the legends. Th...

Frederick A. Gent et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 2

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Magnetic energy eM normalized by time-averaged ...

Magnetic energy eM normalized by time-averaged turbulent kinetic energy ...

Frederick A. Gent et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 2

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The light curve for the transit of HIP 41378 f....

The light curve for the transit of HIP 41378 f. The plot shows unbinned photometry (smal...

Juliana García-Mejía et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 4

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Sky-projected field of view of the observatorie...

Sky-projected field of view of the observatories from where multi-night datasets were ga...

Juliana García-Mejía et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 4

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Normalized nightly median flux of the 10 highes...

Normalized nightly median flux of the 10 highest-weighted reference stars (gray circles)...

Juliana García-Mejía et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 4

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