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Caption: Figure 12.
Phoenicid stream mass is plotted as a function of the differential power-law index, γ, as a blue solid line (γ ≠ 3.0 and 4.0 in Equation (13)). The possible stream mass range (Ms), based on the nucleus mass (Mn; D. Jewitt 2006) and the estimated stream mass (~1011 kg; P. Jenniskens & E. Lyytinen 2005), is shown as a reddish horizontal band. The Phoenicid stream mass is determined at γ = 3.3 (blue circle), which lies closest to the possible stream mass range, within the plausible index range 3.3 ≤ γ ≤ 4.4 (double-headed arrow) derived from the observed comet-sourced meteoroids (R. C. Blaauw et al. 2011; A. Egal et al. 2022a, 2022b; P. Koten et al. 2023; A. V. Moorhead et al. 2025).
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