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Caption: Figure 1.
Two-dimensional projections of the adaptive four-dimensional grid in spherical-orbit space {r, vr, vΩ, ψ}, depicting 192,204 trial orbits. Higher cell density indicates regions where nearby orbits diverge rapidly on-sky, requiring finer subdivision to maintain the angular tolerance ε over the observational baseline. Grid parameters (ΔT, ε) match those used in the DES SN-X3 search before any dynamics-based orbit pruning. A single value of vr = 0 is sufficient for this search, reflecting the relatively much larger importance of on-sky velocity for relatively short time baselines.
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