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Key plots for inferring the metallicity evoluti...

Key plots for inferring the metallicity evolution of the simulated LMC galaxy. Left: the...

Yuxi(Lucy) Lu et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 4

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Histogram of the true birth radii from the simu...

Histogram of the true birth radii from the simulated LMC versus the inferred birth radii...

Yuxi(Lucy) Lu et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 4

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Left: the median and the 1.5∗MAD of the birth r...

Left: the median and the 1.5∗MAD of the birth radii distribution as a function of age us...

Yuxi(Lucy) Lu et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 4

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Normalized histograms showing the distribution ...

Normalized histograms showing the distribution of birth radii (top) and the amount of mi...

Yuxi(Lucy) Lu et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 4

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Similar to Figure 1 but with the LMC observatio...

Similar to Figure 1 but with the LMC observational data. The red solid line shows the in...

Yuxi(Lucy) Lu et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 4

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Metallicity–Rb relation for stars in the LMC si...

Metallicity–Rb relation for stars in the LMC simulation during interaction phase between...

Yuxi(Lucy) Lu et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 4

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The detailed SFH of the LMC compared with SF en...

The detailed SFH of the LMC compared with SF enhancements from P. Massana et al. (2022) ...

Yuxi(Lucy) Lu et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 4

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Left: R − Rb for the LMC stars, where the blue ...

Left: R − Rb for the LMC stars, where the blue solid line shows the median and the blue ...

Yuxi(Lucy) Lu et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 4

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The age–metallicity (left) and the age–[α/M] re...

The age–metallicity (left) and the age–[α/M] relations are plotted as density in the bac...

Yuxi(Lucy) Lu et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 4

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The largest panel on the top right shows the me...

The largest panel on the top right shows the median mono-Rb tracks in [α/M]-[Fe/H] space...

Yuxi(Lucy) Lu et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 4

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Evolution of spicules and the lower corona abov...

Evolution of spicules and the lower corona above them within a cycle of spicule formatio...

Lei Ni et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 1

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Distributions of different variables in the zoo...

Distributions of different variables in the zoomed lower atmosphere for the 2.5D run wit...

Lei Ni et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 1

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AIA and IRIS images taken around 01:02 UT on Ma...

AIA and IRIS images taken around 01:02 UT on May 18, 2020. Panels (A) and (B) show coron...

Lei Ni et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 1

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The distributions of plasma parameters at diffe...

The distributions of plasma parameters at different altitudes. Panel (A) shows the distr...

Lei Ni et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 1

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Time–distance maps corresponding to the slits m...

Time–distance maps corresponding to the slits marked in panels (C)–(E) of Figure 1. The ...

Lei Ni et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 1

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Evolution of the synthesized emission count rat...

Evolution of the synthesized emission count rate in the 2.5D run with initial magnetic f...

Lei Ni et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 1

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The slow-mode shocks above the spicules in the ...

The slow-mode shocks above the spicules in the lower corona. Panels (A)–(H) show the tem...

Lei Ni et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 1

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The upward energy fluxes and mass fluxes from t...

The upward energy fluxes and mass fluxes from the chromosphere to the corona. Panels (A)...

Lei Ni et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 1

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Evolution of spicules and the lower corona with...

Evolution of spicules and the lower corona within a cycle of spicule formation in the hi...

Lei Ni et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 1

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Upward energy fluxes and the mass fluxes from t...

Upward energy fluxes and the mass fluxes from the chromosphere to the corona in the high...

Lei Ni et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 1

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Averaged upward energy fluxes (A) and mass flux...

Averaged upward energy fluxes (A) and mass flux (B) within a cycle of spicule formation ...

Lei Ni et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 1

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Evolutions of the energy density change rate co...

Evolutions of the energy density change rate contributed by three different physical eff...

Lei Ni et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 1

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Distributions of encounter lookback time (τ) an...

Distributions of encounter lookback time (τ) and ejection parameters for the pair J0737–...

Wen-Jie Yu et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 1

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Past trajectories of the double pulsar J0737–30...

Past trajectories of the double pulsar J0737–3039 (red line) and its two candidate birth...

Wen-Jie Yu et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 1

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Retrieved TPs for trailing hemisphere datasets:...

Retrieved TPs for trailing hemisphere datasets: M22-T (top row) and J21-T (bottom row). ...

Timothy N. Proudkii et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 3

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