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Artemis I launch on 2022 November 16 from Launc...

Artemis I launch on 2022 November 16 from Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Cen...

Jennifer L. Heldmann et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 4

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Artist’s concept of the Starship lander on the ...

Artist’s concept of the Starship lander on the lunar surface. Starship is currently plan...

Jennifer L. Heldmann et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 4

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Artist’s concept of the Blue Origin Blue Moon l...

Artist’s concept of the Blue Origin Blue Moon lander on the lunar surface. Blue Moon is ...

Jennifer L. Heldmann et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 4

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Overview of the VIPER Primary Mission Area (∼5 ...

Overview of the VIPER Primary Mission Area (∼5 × 4 km) in a Moon 2000 polar stereographi...

Jennifer L. Heldmann et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 4

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Thermometer shows the temperatures at which var...

Thermometer shows the temperatures at which various volatile species are stable over geo...

Jennifer L. Heldmann et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 4

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Model of shadow amounts and heights as a functi...

Model of shadow amounts and heights as a function of location. This example of a shadow ...

Jennifer L. Heldmann et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 4

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Nonparametric reconstruction of the late-time c...

Nonparametric reconstruction of the late-time cosmic expansion history from CC data. Top...

Qile Zhang et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1002 2

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ANN-based nonparametric reconstructions of the ...

ANN-based nonparametric reconstructions of the function f(z) and its first three derivat...

Qile Zhang et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1002 2

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Nonparametric reconstructions of the late-time ...

Nonparametric reconstructions of the late-time expansion history using ANN. The top pane...

Qile Zhang et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1002 2

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Nonparametric reconstruction of the dark energy...

Nonparametric reconstruction of the dark energy equation of state w(z) for different ass...

Qile Zhang et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1002 2

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Normalized redshift distributions of PantheonPl...

Normalized redshift distributions of PantheonPlus (orange), Union3 (blue), and DESY5 (pu...

Qile Zhang et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1002 2

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Reconstruction of the dark energy equation of s...

Reconstruction of the dark energy equation of state w(z) from mock DESI BAO DR2 and DESY...

Qile Zhang et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1002 2

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Stellar age versus z height at four times in th...

Stellar age versus z height at four times in the simulations, plotting all the stars wit...

Stephanie Tonnesen et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1002 2

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The comparison runs, with grayscale and points ...

The comparison runs, with grayscale and points as in Figure 8. In all cases, the stars f...

Stephanie Tonnesen et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1002 2

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The distribution of dense (ρ ≳ 100 cm−3) gas an...

The distribution of dense (ρ ≳ 100 cm−3) gas and newly formed stars as a function of hei...

Stephanie Tonnesen et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1002 2

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A time series of the fiducial run. The grayscal...

A time series of the fiducial run. The grayscale shows the projected gas density and the...

Stephanie Tonnesen et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1002 2

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vz,init versus tinit for star particles whose v...

vz,init versus tinit for star particles whose velocity changes by more than 5 km s−1, co...

Stephanie Tonnesen et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1002 2

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For visual comparison with the 8 and 38 Myr pan...

For visual comparison with the 8 and 38 Myr panels in Figure 4, we show the same project...

Stephanie Tonnesen et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1002 2

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Histograms of the ratio of the velocity change,...

Histograms of the ratio of the velocity change, measured as the difference between the p...

Stephanie Tonnesen et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1002 2

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A time series of the fiducial run showing 0.8 k...

A time series of the fiducial run showing 0.8 kpc by 4.8 kpc windows of the last three o...

Stephanie Tonnesen et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1002 2

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Three snapshots of the full refined region of t...

Three snapshots of the full refined region of the fiducial simulation (with z = 0 denoti...

Stephanie Tonnesen et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1002 2

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The global SFR over time in our main suite of s...

The global SFR over time in our main suite of simulations.

Stephanie Tonnesen et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1002 2

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An illustration of a classic “fireball.” A gas ...

An illustration of a classic “fireball.” A gas cloud (gray sphere) is monolithically acc...

Stephanie Tonnesen et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1002 2

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The initial cloud temperature and density for t...

The initial cloud temperature and density for the NW, fiducial (which is the same for al...

Stephanie Tonnesen et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1002 2

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Examples of the classification classes in our M...

Examples of the classification classes in our ML Dataset. This figure illustrates five e...

J. González et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1002 2

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