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Top panel: above view of the L 98-59 planetary ...

Top panel: above view of the L 98-59 planetary system on BJD = 2460000 assuming circular...

Charles Cadieux et al, The Astronomical Journal 170 3

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Family portrait of the five planets in the L 98...

Family portrait of the five planets in the L 98-59 system showing their transit (or abse...

Charles Cadieux et al, The Astronomical Journal 170 3

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Sub-kelvin differential temperature measurement...

Sub-kelvin differential temperature measurements of L 98-59 from ESPRESSO and HARPS, wit...

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Mass–radius constraints on the L 98-59 planets ...

Mass–radius constraints on the L 98-59 planets (b: green, c: purple, d: red, e: blue, f:...

Charles Cadieux et al, The Astronomical Journal 170 3

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Marginalized 1D and 2D posterior distributions ...

Marginalized 1D and 2D posterior distributions of internal structure parameters for L 98...

Charles Cadieux et al, The Astronomical Journal 170 3

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Internal energy balance inferred with melt (M. ...

Internal energy balance inferred with melt (M. S. Peterson et al. 2023) for L 98-59 b (t...

Charles Cadieux et al, The Astronomical Journal 170 3

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Transit timing variations (TTVs) of L 98-59 c (...

Transit timing variations (TTVs) of L 98-59 c (top) and L 98-59 d (bottom) from TESS (wh...

Charles Cadieux et al, The Astronomical Journal 170 3

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Summary of the RV component from the joint RV–T...

Summary of the RV component from the joint RV–TTV fit. Left panels: radial velocity (RV)...

Charles Cadieux et al, The Astronomical Journal 170 3

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Normalized PDCSAP light curve of L 98-59 from T...

Normalized PDCSAP light curve of L 98-59 from TESS between 2018 August 23 (sector 2) and...

Charles Cadieux et al, The Astronomical Journal 170 3

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Normalized PDCSAP light curve of L 98-59 from T...

Normalized PDCSAP light curve of L 98-59 from TESS between 2018 August 23 (sector 2) and...

Charles Cadieux et al, The Astronomical Journal 170 3

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Normalized PDCSAP light curve of L 98-59 from T...

Normalized PDCSAP light curve of L 98-59 from TESS between 2018 August 23 (sector 2) and...

Charles Cadieux et al, The Astronomical Journal 170 3

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Marginalized posterior distributions of the orb...

Marginalized posterior distributions of the orbital eccentricities of the L 98-59 planet...

Charles Cadieux et al, The Astronomical Journal 170 3

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Detection sensitivity map of Keplerian signals ...

Detection sensitivity map of Keplerian signals in the ESPRESSO and HARPS data. The semia...

Charles Cadieux et al, The Astronomical Journal 170 3

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Posterior distributions of Kk (left), ek (cente...

Posterior distributions of Kk (left), ek (center), and ωk (right) for the L 98-59 planet...

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JWST’s view of the α Cen AB system. Shown above...

JWST’s view of the α Cen AB system. Shown above is a background-subtracted Stage 2b F155...

Charles Beichman et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 989 2

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Left: F1000W image of α Cen AB showing Gaia sta...

Left: F1000W image of α Cen AB showing Gaia stars (green boxes) and MIRI detections (red...

Charles Beichman et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 989 2

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PSF-subtracted image centered on α Cen A for th...

PSF-subtracted image centered on α Cen A for the 2025 April observations, which provides...

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The planet candidate is initialized using the m...

The planet candidate is initialized using the mean values from Table 4 with KRV < 3 m s−...

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Range of (true) star–planet separations (top) a...

Range of (true) star–planet separations (top) and instantaneous temperatures (bottom) fo...

Charles Beichman et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 989 2

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A prediction for the location of S1 based on th...

A prediction for the location of S1 based on the family of dynamically stable orbits for...

Charles Beichman et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 989 2

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Left: orbit of α Cen B relative to α Cen A show...

Left: orbit of α Cen B relative to α Cen A showing one epoch of Hipparcos and two epochs...

Charles Beichman et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 989 2

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BB emission from a circumplanetary ring for a t...

BB emission from a circumplanetary ring for a total cross-sectional area equivalent to t...

Charles Beichman et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 989 2

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Teff = 225 K atmospheric models consistent with...

Teff = 225 K atmospheric models consistent with the S1 + C1 photometry (within 1σ) for a...

Charles Beichman et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 989 2

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The change in the position of α Cen A relative ...

The change in the position of α Cen A relative to 2024 January 1 (Δα = 0, Δδ = 0) comput...

Charles Beichman et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 989 2

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Range of minimum mutual inclination imut experi...

Range of minimum mutual inclination imut experienced by the prograde (a) and retrograde ...

Charles Beichman et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 989 2

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