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System parameters as a function of dynamical ag...

System parameters as a function of dynamical age, τcir/τage, for planets with e < 0.1 (i...

Yugo Kawai et al, The Astronomical Journal 170 6

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Top: p-values from KS tests with trial Qp compa...

Top: p-values from KS tests with trial Qp comparing the eccentricity distributions of dy...

Yugo Kawai et al, The Astronomical Journal 170 6

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A recreation of Figure 4 in S. N. Quinn et al. ...

A recreation of Figure 4 in S. N. Quinn et al. (2014). The system age τage is plotted ag...

Yugo Kawai et al, The Astronomical Journal 170 6

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The result of the Monte Carlo experiment descri...

The result of the Monte Carlo experiment described in Section 4.2. While the sample of s...

Yugo Kawai et al, The Astronomical Journal 170 6

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The marginalized posterior density ...

The marginalized posterior density ﹩{\mathrm{log}}q﹩ for dynamically old and young syste...

Yugo Kawai et al, The Astronomical Journal 170 6

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A comparison between posteriors from the seven ...

A comparison between posteriors from the seven orbit models, listed in the legend. We fi...

William Thompson et al, The Astronomical Journal 170 6

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Comparison of the orbit posteriors incorporatin...

Comparison of the orbit posteriors incorporating different sources of data. The blue dot...

William Thompson et al, The Astronomical Journal 170 6

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Orbits sampled from the RV, Hipparcos, DR3 mode...

Orbits sampled from the RV, Hipparcos, DR3 model (blue) and the complete RV, Hipparcos, ...

William Thompson et al, The Astronomical Journal 170 6

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Covariances between R.A. and decl. velocity at ...

Covariances between R.A. and decl. velocity at each proper-motion epoch, for the RV, Hip...

William Thompson et al, The Astronomical Journal 170 6

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Maximum a posteriori sample from the complete R...

Maximum a posteriori sample from the complete RV and astrometry model. RV data from each...

William Thompson et al, The Astronomical Journal 170 6

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Predicted locations of planet b in 1 yr increme...

Predicted locations of planet b in 1 yr increments. The contours represent 1σ Gaussian e...

William Thompson et al, The Astronomical Journal 170 6

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Marginal eccentricity posteriors from leave-one...

Marginal eccentricity posteriors from leave-one-instrument-out cross-validation of RV da...

William Thompson et al, The Astronomical Journal 170 6

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Zoom in of Figure 3 showing the dense sampling ...

Zoom in of Figure 3 showing the dense sampling of HARPS data over 1.5 days in 2004 Octob...

William Thompson et al, The Astronomical Journal 170 6

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Marginal mass and inclination posteriors for pl...

Marginal mass and inclination posteriors for planet b based on contributions from differ...

William Thompson et al, The Astronomical Journal 170 6

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MEGA MIRI imaging (red), with CEERS MIRI imagin...

MEGA MIRI imaging (red), with CEERS MIRI imaging (blue), and CEERS NIRCam imaging (gray).

Bren E. Backhaus et al, The Astronomical Journal 170 6

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Final mosaic before any background subtraction ...

Final mosaic before any background subtraction (left), after one iteration of super back...

Bren E. Backhaus et al, The Astronomical Journal 170 6

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Red-blue-green image of MEGA pointings using al...

Red-blue-green image of MEGA pointings using all four of the MEGA filters. The zoomed-in...

Bren E. Backhaus et al, The Astronomical Journal 170 6

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Distribution of F770W photometric fluxes for ou...

Distribution of F770W photometric fluxes for our MEGA survey sample compared to 5σ CEERS...

Bren E. Backhaus et al, The Astronomical Journal 170 6

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The 15 × 15 pixel stacked on-the-sky distributi...

The 15 × 15 pixel stacked on-the-sky distribution of 186 compact and isolated galaxies i...

Bren E. Backhaus et al, The Astronomical Journal 170 6

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Completeness fraction as a function of flux for...

Completeness fraction as a function of flux for for each of the MEGA MIRI filters. 80% c...

Bren E. Backhaus et al, The Astronomical Journal 170 6

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The combined integral number counts for MEGA’s ...

The combined integral number counts for MEGA’s four MIRI filters, with individual pointi...

Bren E. Backhaus et al, The Astronomical Journal 170 6

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Schematic of the processing stages leading to t...

Schematic of the processing stages leading to the single-transit statistic shown for sim...

Oryna Ivashtenko and Barak Zackay, The Astronomical Journal 170 6

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Illustration of regular high-pass filtering com...

Illustration of regular high-pass filtering compared to the piecewise detrending method ...

Oryna Ivashtenko and Barak Zackay, The Astronomical Journal 170 6

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Top panel: example of PSD estimation for severa...

Top panel: example of PSD estimation for several simulated noise samples. The black line...

Oryna Ivashtenko and Barak Zackay, The Astronomical Journal 170 6

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Schematic of data conditioning on a simulated l...

Schematic of data conditioning on a simulated light curve represented in Fourier domain....

Oryna Ivashtenko and Barak Zackay, The Astronomical Journal 170 6

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