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On-sky velocities corresponding to SALTAD hits,...

On-sky velocities corresponding to SALTAD hits, with ecliptic latitude and longitude rat...

Emerson A. Whittaker and Jean-Luc Margot, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Example detections for known MBAs that have at ...

Example detections for known MBAs that have at least three previously unreported observa...

Emerson A. Whittaker and Jean-Luc Margot, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Images of two candidates with MLE = 8.3 dB at t...

Images of two candidates with MLE = 8.3 dB at the beginning, middle, and end of SALTAD p...

Emerson A. Whittaker and Jean-Luc Margot, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Left: histogram of the number of known objects ...

Left: histogram of the number of known objects expected within all subfields combined, w...

Emerson A. Whittaker and Jean-Luc Margot, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Ecliptic coordinates for all detections submitt...

Ecliptic coordinates for all detections submitted to the MPC, excluding identified false...

Emerson A. Whittaker and Jean-Luc Margot, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Astrometric residuals for all detections of kno...

Astrometric residuals for all detections of known objects with listed orbital elements. ...

Emerson A. Whittaker and Jean-Luc Margot, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Orbital element plots for all confirmed candida...

Orbital element plots for all confirmed candidates for which we reported detections to t...

Emerson A. Whittaker and Jean-Luc Margot, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Histogram of MLE (dB) for all candidates submit...

Histogram of MLE (dB) for all candidates submitted to the MPC, excluding identified fals...

Emerson A. Whittaker and Jean-Luc Margot, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Diagram of the asteroid shift-and-stack detecti...

Diagram of the asteroid shift-and-stack detection pipeline. The detection culling pipeli...

Emerson A. Whittaker and Jean-Luc Margot, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Plot of the sky coverage of our collection of s...

Plot of the sky coverage of our collection of subfields searched by SALTAD. The x-axis i...

Emerson A. Whittaker and Jean-Luc Margot, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Histogram of the on-sky angular speeds for all ...

Histogram of the on-sky angular speeds for all numbered asteroids with perihelion distan...

Emerson A. Whittaker and Jean-Luc Margot, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Images of discovery candidate with high S/N at ...

Images of discovery candidate with high S/N at the beginning, middle, and end of SALTAD ...

Emerson A. Whittaker and Jean-Luc Margot, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Number of good discovery candidates vs. arc len...

Number of good discovery candidates vs. arc length in days of our submitted detections. ...

Emerson A. Whittaker and Jean-Luc Margot, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Description of each detection code listed in ou...

Description of each detection code listed in our detections SQL table. Only detections w...

Emerson A. Whittaker and Jean-Luc Margot, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Skybot-estimated V-band magnitude vs. the MLE d...

Skybot-estimated V-band magnitude vs. the MLE divided by the number of frames in a subfi...

Emerson A. Whittaker and Jean-Luc Margot, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Wavelength dependence of two-epoch magnitude di...

Wavelength dependence of two-epoch magnitude differences for the 110 day timescale varia...

Mi-Ryang Kim et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 1

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Left: wide-field image of the Orion A central r...

Left: wide-field image of the Orion A central region obtained with 7DT using the m650 fi...

Mi-Ryang Kim et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 1

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Schematic overview of our SSIM-based deep learn...

Schematic overview of our SSIM-based deep learning pipeline for satellite-trail detectio...

Mi-Ryang Kim et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 1

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Comparison of a representative source classifie...

Comparison of a representative source classified as nonvariable in our two-night 7DT ana...

Mi-Ryang Kim et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 1

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Probability density distribution of the two-epo...

Probability density distribution of the two-epoch multiband Stetson index J for all 769 ...

Mi-Ryang Kim et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 1

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Distributions of two-epoch magnitude difference...

Distributions of two-epoch magnitude differences, ...

Mi-Ryang Kim et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 1

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Representative examples of the model fitting in...

Representative examples of the model fitting in Δm space. Each panel shows the observed ...

Mi-Ryang Kim et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 1

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Ground-based observations of C/2025 K1 during 2...

Ground-based observations of C/2025 K1 during 2025 December 1–13. Top: F-P diagrams for ...

Teerasak Thaluang, Research Notes of the AAS 10 6

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VLA A-configuration C-band (6 GHz) image of AT ...

VLA A-configuration C-band (6 GHz) image of AT 2023mfm on 2026 April 11, revealing disti...

Wenkai Li et al, Research Notes of the AAS 10 6

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Overview of the SuNeRF-CME method for tomograph...

Overview of the SuNeRF-CME method for tomographic reconstruction of coronal mass ejectio...

Robert Jarolim et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1004 2

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