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Evolution of the coronal EUV wave and the assoc...

Evolution of the coronal EUV wave and the associated Hα Moreton wave. Panels (a1)–(a3) s...

C. H. Zhai et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1001 2

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Left panel: normalized Hα spectral profile of t...

Left panel: normalized Hα spectral profile of the Moreton wave front at 12:55:47 UT (sol...

C. H. Zhai et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1001 2

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Schematic sketch comparing the traditional unde...

Schematic sketch comparing the traditional understanding of Moreton wave and our new par...

C. H. Zhai et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1001 2

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Spatial relationship between the Moreton wave f...

Spatial relationship between the Moreton wave front at 12:55:47 UT and different proxies...

C. H. Zhai et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1001 2

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99th percentile of the primary (solid) and seco...

99th percentile of the primary (solid) and secondary (dashed) mass distributions for the...

Amanda M. Farah et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1001 2

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Mass ratio (left panel) and two-dimensional mas...

Mass ratio (left panel) and two-dimensional mass (right panel) distributions for the mai...

Amanda M. Farah et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1001 2

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Marginal primary (top) and secondary (bottom) m...

Marginal primary (top) and secondary (bottom) mass distributions. These produce similar ...

Amanda M. Farah et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1001 2

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Two-dimensional mass distributions of the main ...

Two-dimensional mass distributions of the main population and subpopulation. Colors are ...

Amanda M. Farah et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1001 2

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The inferred merger rate evolution with redshif...

The inferred merger rate evolution with redshift of our subpopulation of χ1 ≈ 0.7 BBHs (...

Amanda M. Farah et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1001 2

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Inferred primary (top panel) and secondary (bot...

Inferred primary (top panel) and secondary (bottom panel) mass distributions for the hie...

Amanda M. Farah et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1001 2

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Ratio of the subpopulation’s 1G mass distributi...

Ratio of the subpopulation’s 1G mass distribution, representing 1G BHs that merge in clu...

Amanda M. Farah et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1001 2

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Population-level correlations caused by hierarc...

Population-level correlations caused by hierarchical mergers. Diagonal panels show the i...

Amanda M. Farah et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1001 2

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Mass ratio distributions, marginalized over hyp...

Mass ratio distributions, marginalized over hyperposterior uncertainty. The subpopulatio...

Amanda M. Farah et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1001 2

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Distribution of spin orientations for the main ...

Distribution of spin orientations for the main population and subpopulation. The subpopu...

Amanda M. Farah et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1001 2

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Inferred pairing functions for the subpopulatio...

Inferred pairing functions for the subpopulations when these are allowed to differ. The ...

Amanda M. Farah et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1001 2

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Distributions of spin magnitudes. The main popu...

Distributions of spin magnitudes. The main population prefers low (but not necessarily z...

Amanda M. Farah et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1001 2

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Mass evolution of a 10 M⊙ seeding black hole fr...

Mass evolution of a 10 M⊙ seeding black hole from z = 30 to z = 7, including Eddington a...

Chian-Shu Chen and Feng-Li Lin, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1001 2

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Counterpart evolution of the Bondi radius rB(z)...

Counterpart evolution of the Bondi radius rB(z) of Figure 1, assuming the average-halo d...

Chian-Shu Chen and Feng-Li Lin, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1001 2

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Evolution of the QCD PBH mass function for logn...

Evolution of the QCD PBH mass function for lognormal (top), power-law (middle), and crit...

Chian-Shu Chen and Feng-Li Lin, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1001 2

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Dynamical constraints on the unseen companion. ...

Dynamical constraints on the unseen companion. Top: companion mass M2 versus orbital inc...

Jia-Shu Niu et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1001 2

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O − C diagram of BE Lyn (with the linear epheme...

O − C diagram of BE Lyn (with the linear ephemeris subtracted). The top panel shows the ...

Jia-Shu Niu et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1001 2

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Hertzsprung–Russell diagram showing evolutionar...

Hertzsprung–Russell diagram showing evolutionary tracks (colored solid lines from the ze...

Jia-Shu Niu et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1001 2

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Frequency spectrum of BE Lyn. The main panel (0...

Frequency spectrum of BE Lyn. The main panel (0–100 c day−1) marks the fundamental (f0, ...

Jia-Shu Niu et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1001 2

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Light curve of BE Lyn from TESS Sector 21. The ...

Light curve of BE Lyn from TESS Sector 21. The lower panel shows a 1 day zoom for clarity.

Jia-Shu Niu et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1001 2

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Newly acquired JWST photometry in the F356W and...

Newly acquired JWST photometry in the F356W and F444W filters (blue and red circles) is ...

Bryden Geoffrey et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 5

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