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Example CRs on Pluto. The features indicated by...

Example CRs on Pluto. The features indicated by red arrows, called CRs, change in appear...

Jason D. Hofgartner et al, The Planetary Science Journal 6 8

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Example CEs on Pluto. The features indicated by...

Example CEs on Pluto. The features indicated by red arrows, called CEs, are distinguisha...

Jason D. Hofgartner et al, The Planetary Science Journal 6 8

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Spatial distribution of CRs and CEs identified ...

Spatial distribution of CRs and CEs identified on Pluto. The background image is part of...

Jason D. Hofgartner et al, The Planetary Science Journal 6 8

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New Horizons images of example CRs on Pluto. Im...

New Horizons images of example CRs on Pluto. Images are arranged in order of both increa...

Jason D. Hofgartner et al, The Planetary Science Journal 6 8

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Approximate imaging geometries of New Horizons ...

Approximate imaging geometries of New Horizons images of example CRs on Pluto. The imagi...

Jason D. Hofgartner et al, The Planetary Science Journal 6 8

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New Horizons images of example CE on Pluto. Ima...

New Horizons images of example CE on Pluto. Images are arranged in order of both increas...

Jason D. Hofgartner et al, The Planetary Science Journal 6 8

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Surface and shallow subsurface properties hypot...

Surface and shallow subsurface properties hypothesis for Pluto’s CRs. S CR, NW CR, and N...

Jason D. Hofgartner et al, The Planetary Science Journal 6 8

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Surface and shallow subsurface properties hypot...

Surface and shallow subsurface properties hypothesis for Pluto’s CEs. CE corresponds to ...

Jason D. Hofgartner et al, The Planetary Science Journal 6 8

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Cloud or surface coating hypothesis for Pluto’s...

Cloud or surface coating hypothesis for Pluto’s CRs. S CR, NW CR, and NE CR correspond t...

Jason D. Hofgartner et al, The Planetary Science Journal 6 8

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Cloud or surface coating hypothesis for Pluto’s...

Cloud or surface coating hypothesis for Pluto’s CEs. CE corresponds to the example CE in...

Jason D. Hofgartner et al, The Planetary Science Journal 6 8

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Enlarged view of the Fe XXVI Lyα absorption reg...

Enlarged view of the Fe XXVI Lyα absorption region in the phase-averaged XRISM/Resolve s...

Kai Matsunaga et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1006 2

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Phase-averaged XRISM/Resolve spectra of the AX ...

Phase-averaged XRISM/Resolve spectra of the AX J1745.6−2901 extraction region and the MA...

Kai Matsunaga et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1006 2

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X-ray red, green, and blue image obtained with ...

X-ray red, green, and blue image obtained with XRISM/Resolve and Chandra/ACIS. The red a...

Kai Matsunaga et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1006 2

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Left: the X-ray light curve (top) and folded li...

Left: the X-ray light curve (top) and folded light curve (bottom) of the AX J1745.6−2901...

Kai Matsunaga et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1006 2

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Fit of the 3D shape model of Paris to the stell...

Fit of the 3D shape model of Paris to the stellar occultation data. Cyan lines represent...

Luan M. Catani et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 2

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Relative position of the secondary component of...

Relative position of the secondary component of the Gaia DR3 source 1195466458504815104 ...

Luan M. Catani et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 2

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Shape model of the Trojan asteroid Paris in dif...

Shape model of the Trojan asteroid Paris in different rotational phases. The shape was r...

Luan M. Catani et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 2

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RLCs of Paris used in the modeling. Black dots:...

RLCs of Paris used in the modeling. Black dots: observed relative flux. Red crosses: syn...

Luan M. Catani et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 2

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Distribution of observational data along Paris’...

Distribution of observational data along Paris’s heliocentric orbit from 2016 to 2027. B...

Luan M. Catani et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 2

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Two examples of light curves analyzed in this w...

Two examples of light curves analyzed in this work: a stellar OLC (panel (a)) and a comp...

Luan M. Catani et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 2

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Light curves of positive detections from occult...

Light curves of positive detections from occultations by Paris observed between 2020 and...

Luan M. Catani et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 2

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Fit positions of the shape model to the astrome...

Fit positions of the shape model to the astrometric solutions of the multichord occultat...

Luan M. Catani et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 2

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Fit position of the shape model to the two poss...

Fit position of the shape model to the two possible solutions of single-chord occultatio...

Luan M. Catani et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 2

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Fit position of the shape model to the two poss...

Fit position of the shape model to the two possible solutions of single-chord occultatio...

Luan M. Catani et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 2

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Kp−Δvsys diagrams for the free retrieval maximu...

Kp−Δvsys diagrams for the free retrieval maximum-likelihood model for each target, omitt...

Luke Finnerty et al, The Astronomical Journal 172 2

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