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Schematic plot showing the formation of full TD...

Schematic plot showing the formation of full TDEs, non-rpTDEs, rpTDEs, and stellar extre...

Zhen Pan and Dong Lai, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1002 1

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Average rpTDE fraction in the loss-cone channel...

Average rpTDE fraction in the loss-cone channel is insensitive to the stellar type or th...

Zhen Pan and Dong Lai, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1002 1

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Fraction of rpTDEs ...

Fraction of rpTDEs ﹩{f}_{\lt {T}_{{\rm{obt}}}}({M}_{\bullet })﹩ among all star disruptio...

Zhen Pan and Dong Lai, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1002 1

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Statistics of rpTDE candidates in Tobt–M• space...

Statistics of rpTDE candidates in Tobt–M• space (see Table 1). The shadowed region is fo...

Zhen Pan and Dong Lai, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1002 1

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A cartoon illustrating the outcomes of binary d...

A cartoon illustrating the outcomes of binary disruption, leading to rpTDEs and stellar ...

Zhen Pan and Dong Lai, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1002 1

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Schematic plot of binary disruption and the sub...

Schematic plot of binary disruption and the subsequent evolution of the captured star. A...

Zhen Pan and Dong Lai, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1002 1

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Fraction of rpTDEs ...

Fraction of rpTDEs ﹩{f}_{\lt {T}_{{\rm{obt}}}}^{{\rm{Hills}}}({M}_{\bullet })﹩ as a func...

Zhen Pan and Dong Lai, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1002 1

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Average rpTDE fraction contributed by the Hills...

Average rpTDE fraction contributed by the Hills channel assuming the binary separation a...

Zhen Pan and Dong Lai, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1002 1

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Statistics of rpTDE candidates in Tobt–M• space...

Statistics of rpTDE candidates in Tobt–M• space (see Table 1). The blue dashed line is w...

Zhen Pan and Dong Lai, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1002 1

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Illustration of the synthetic impactor generati...

Illustration of the synthetic impactor generation model. The plot compares the geocentri...

Qifeng Cheng et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 5

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Discovery diagnostics for discovered impactors ...

Discovery diagnostics for discovered impactors at the moment of their first LSST detecti...

Qifeng Cheng et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 5

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Fraction of impactors discovered at least X (ti...

Fraction of impactors discovered at least X (time) before impact, shown for four size bi...

Qifeng Cheng et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 5

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Example impactor observation timeline illustrat...

Example impactor observation timeline illustrating a case where LSST detects the object ...

Qifeng Cheng et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 5

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Size distribution and discovery efficiency of t...

Size distribution and discovery efficiency of the synthetic impactor population, compute...

Qifeng Cheng et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 5

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Two representative synthetic-impact cases illus...

Two representative synthetic-impact cases illustrating how visibility does—or does not—t...

Qifeng Cheng et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 5

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Fraction of impactors discovered at least X bef...

Fraction of impactors discovered at least X before impact for four diameter bins (10–20 ...

Qifeng Cheng et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 5

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Cumulative fraction of impactors discovered at ...

Cumulative fraction of impactors discovered at least X days before impact for the subset...

Qifeng Cheng et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 5

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Successive application of Sorcha’s survey-simul...

Successive application of Sorcha’s survey-simulation filters and their impact on LSST im...

Qifeng Cheng et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 5

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Successive application of Sorcha’s survey-simul...

Successive application of Sorcha’s survey-simulation filters and their impact on Argus i...

Qifeng Cheng et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 5

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We present a preliminary top-down view of the b...

We present a preliminary top-down view of the best-fitting CMZ orbits, as well as projec...

Dani R. Lipman et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1002 1

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Stellar density maps of the CMZ show dark extin...

Stellar density maps of the CMZ show dark extinction features that can be used to calcul...

Dani R. Lipman et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1002 1

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The parameter grid search results in a range of...

The parameter grid search results in a range of best-fitting x2 elliptical orbits for th...

Dani R. Lipman et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1002 1

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We present a method to synthesize multiwaveleng...

We present a method to synthesize multiwavelength datasets to obtain most likely near/fa...

Dani R. Lipman et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1002 1

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The methods used to infer NF positions of indiv...

The methods used to infer NF positions of individual clouds in the CMZ can be combined i...

Dani R. Lipman et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1002 1

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Left-hand panels show ...

Left-hand panels show ﹩{\chi }_{{\rm{red}}}^{2}﹩ values for output parameter values from...

Dani R. Lipman et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1002 1

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