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Top left: the comparison to previous works. The...

Top left: the comparison to previous works. The dots show the convection zone mass at 4....

Zimo Cheng et al, Research Notes of the AAS 10 7

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Diagnostics of the magnetic fields for a monene...

Diagnostics of the magnetic fields for a monenergetic (upper panels) and a power-law (lo...

Saikat Das et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1005 2

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Top two panels: Evolution of the longitudinal ...

Top two panels: Evolution of the longitudinal ...

Saikat Das et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1005 2

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Analytic growth rates of NRSI derived for monen...

Analytic growth rates of NRSI derived for monenergetic (dotted) and power-law (dashed) m...

Saikat Das et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1005 2

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The saturated magnetic field ...

The saturated magnetic field ﹩{\left({B}_{\perp }/{B}_{0}\right)}_{{\rm{sat}}}﹩ vs. the ...

Saikat Das et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1005 2

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Similar to Figure 2, except that the CRs initia...

Similar to Figure 2, except that the CRs initially have cone distributions. Left panels:...

Saikat Das et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1005 2

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The momentum distributions of plasma ions (dott...

The momentum distributions of plasma ions (dotted lines), plasma electrons (dashed lines...

Saikat Das et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1005 2

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Time evolution of the transverse magnetic field...

Time evolution of the transverse magnetic fields B⊥ for the runs in Table 2. Their linea...

Saikat Das et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1005 2

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CR distributions fcr(p, μ) for the runs with mo...

CR distributions fcr(p, μ) for the runs with monenergetic (left) and power-law (right) C...

Saikat Das et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1005 2

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Top panel: Transverse magnetic fields B⊥ for ru...

Top panel: Transverse magnetic fields B⊥ for runs I4, C4, I10, and C10 in Table 2. Inset...

Saikat Das et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1005 2

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Schematic illustration of CR self-confinement v...

Schematic illustration of CR self-confinement via NRSI in a layered upstream ISM plasma ...

Saikat Das et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1005 2

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Top panel: Evolution of a few R-handed (...

Top panel: Evolution of a few R-handed (...

Saikat Das et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1005 2

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Evolution of transverse magnetic field B⊥ for t...

Evolution of transverse magnetic field B⊥ for the runs PLI:5-400:p−3, PLI:5-400(p−4), an...

Saikat Das et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1005 2

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Evolution of transverse magnetic fields B⊥ for ...

Evolution of transverse magnetic fields B⊥ for the runs in Table 4 with nonrelativistic ...

Saikat Das et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1005 2

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(a) Plot of LPC orbital period vs. perihelion p...

(a) Plot of LPC orbital period vs. perihelion passage time for LPCs making their first p...

Nathan A. Kaib and Sean N. Raymond, The Planetary Science Journal 7 7

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(a) For the Flyby_7943 simulation, the distribu...

(a) For the Flyby_7943 simulation, the distribution of s2ω at t = 1 Myr is shown for q ...

Nathan A. Kaib and Sean N. Raymond, The Planetary Science Journal 7 7

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(a) The cumulative distribution of s2ω is shown...

(a) The cumulative distribution of s2ω is shown for observed LPCs (thick lines) and simu...

Nathan A. Kaib and Sean N. Raymond, The Planetary Science Journal 7 7

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The cumulative distribution of s2ω is shown for...

The cumulative distribution of s2ω is shown for observed LPCs (thick lines) and simulate...

Nathan A. Kaib and Sean N. Raymond, The Planetary Science Journal 7 7

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Estimated uncertainty of LPC original semimajor...

Estimated uncertainty of LPC original semimajor axis vs. LPC discovery year for dynamica...

Nathan A. Kaib and Sean N. Raymond, The Planetary Science Journal 7 7

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(a) Distribution of inverse original semimajor ...

(a) Distribution of inverse original semimajor axes of dynamically new (a > 104 au) LPCs...

Nathan A. Kaib and Sean N. Raymond, The Planetary Science Journal 7 7

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The distribution of s2ω for Oort cloud orbits i...

The distribution of s2ω for Oort cloud orbits in 10 coadded snapshots of our TIDE simula...

Nathan A. Kaib and Sean N. Raymond, The Planetary Science Journal 7 7

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Distributions of s2ω are shown for LPCs making ...

Distributions of s2ω are shown for LPCs making perihelion passages inside 4 au with a > ...

Nathan A. Kaib and Sean N. Raymond, The Planetary Science Journal 7 7

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Plot of the mean new LPC flux into the inner so...

Plot of the mean new LPC flux into the inner solar system against the impact parameter o...

Nathan A. Kaib and Sean N. Raymond, The Planetary Science Journal 7 7

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Relative Sun-spacecraft geometry at 23: 30 UT o...

Relative Sun-spacecraft geometry at 23: 30 UT on 2024 March 19. The polar plot (J. Giese...

Sabrina Guastavino et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1005 2

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Zoomed-in crop of the flaring site on 2024 Marc...

Zoomed-in crop of the flaring site on 2024 March 19, at a solar-referenced time of 23: 1...

Sabrina Guastavino et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1005 2

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