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Lick 3 m POLISH2 polarization phase curves of M...

Lick 3 m POLISH2 polarization phase curves of MBAs, NEOs (1998 OR2 and (65803) Didymos),...

Sloane J. Wiktorowicz et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 3

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Rotation-phase-locked measurements of airless b...

Rotation-phase-locked measurements of airless bodies obtained with POLISH2 in an unfilte...

Sloane J. Wiktorowicz et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 3

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Airless bodies with POLISH2 detections of rotat...

Airless bodies with POLISH2 detections of rotational polarization variations sorted by Φ...

Sloane J. Wiktorowicz et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 3

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Left: fractional linear polarization p vs. α fo...

Left: fractional linear polarization p vs. α for (12) Victoria obtained on UT 2021 Septe...

Sloane J. Wiktorowicz et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 3

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Surface heterogeneity vs. taxonomic type. CDFs ...

Surface heterogeneity vs. taxonomic type. CDFs of surface heterogeneity (Φ × Δp/p) are s...

Sloane J. Wiktorowicz et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 3

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Variations in scattering-plane-referenced polar...

Variations in scattering-plane-referenced polarization orientation ...

Sloane J. Wiktorowicz et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 3

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Comparison of the Dawn albedo map of (4) Vesta ...

Comparison of the Dawn albedo map of (4) Vesta (V. Reddy et al. 2012) with POLISH2 linea...

Sloane J. Wiktorowicz et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 3

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POLISH2 383−720 nm observations of Uranus obtai...

POLISH2 383−720 nm observations of Uranus obtained at α = 1...

Sloane J. Wiktorowicz et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 3

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Lick 3 m POLISH2 observations of absolute fract...

Lick 3 m POLISH2 observations of absolute fractional, optical circular polarization ∣v∣ ...

Sloane J. Wiktorowicz et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 3

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Lick 3 m POLISH2 measurements of three asteroid...

Lick 3 m POLISH2 measurements of three asteroids surrounding their inversion angles over...

Sloane J. Wiktorowicz et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 3

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Lick 3 m POLISH2 observations during UT 2018 Se...

Lick 3 m POLISH2 observations during UT 2018 September 18−23 that may indicate the POE i...

Sloane J. Wiktorowicz et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 3

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Stacked spectrum according to the best-fit norm...

Stacked spectrum according to the best-fit normalization (solid black), with 1σ statisti...

R. Abbasi et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 2

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The predicted neutrino spectrum for the Circinu...

The predicted neutrino spectrum for the Circinus Galaxy from the disk–corona model (soli...

R. Abbasi et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 2

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Expected (star), best-fit (dot), and 90% confid...

Expected (star), best-fit (dot), and 90% confidence level upper limit (triangle) number ...

R. Abbasi et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 2

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Local (pretrial) p-value maps near the most sig...

Local (pretrial) p-value maps near the most significant source—the Circinus Galaxy (oran...

R. Abbasi et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 2

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Isochrones at 8 Gyr and [Fe/H] = –0.5 for three...

Isochrones at 8 Gyr and [Fe/H] = –0.5 for three different HST-WFC3 CMDs. The panels demo...

Aaron Dotter et al, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 283 2

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Comparison of metal-poor, α-enhanced isochrones...

Comparison of metal-poor, α-enhanced isochrones with the HST/ACS CMDs of three Galactic ...

Aaron Dotter et al, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 283 2

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Comparison of metal-poor isochrones with the HS...

Comparison of metal-poor isochrones with the HST/WFC3 CMDs of three Galactic globular cl...

Aaron Dotter et al, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 283 2

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MIST isochrones at 10 Myr (upper left), 100 Myr...

MIST isochrones at 10 Myr (upper left), 100 Myr, 1 Gyr, and 10 Gyr (lower right). The le...

Aaron Dotter et al, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 283 2

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The red giant branch bump data sample compiled ...

The red giant branch bump data sample compiled by D. M. Nataf et al. (2013) is compared ...

Aaron Dotter et al, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 283 2

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MIST isochrones at 10 Myr, 100 Myr, 1 Gyr, and ...

MIST isochrones at 10 Myr, 100 Myr, 1 Gyr, and 10 Gyr, showing the effect of [α/Fe] enha...

Aaron Dotter et al, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 283 2

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MIST isochrones at 10 Myr, 100 Myr, 1 Gyr, and ...

MIST isochrones at 10 Myr, 100 Myr, 1 Gyr, and 10 Gyr. The red line is the α-enhanced mo...

Aaron Dotter et al, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 283 2

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Isochrones at 100 Myr, 1 Gyr, and 10 Gyr from M...

Isochrones at 100 Myr, 1 Gyr, and 10 Gyr from MIST (solid lines) and BaSTI (dashed lines...

Aaron Dotter et al, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 283 2

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The estimated parent-body diameters and formati...

The estimated parent-body diameters and formation ages of families reported in this cata...

David Nesvorný, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 283 2

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The best-fit V envelope for the Merxia family (...

The best-fit V envelope for the Merxia family (C0 = 3 × 10−5 au, red lines; the black do...

David Nesvorný, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 283 2

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