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The optical model of a starshade is illustrated...

The optical model of a starshade is illustrated. The input function fλ(x, y) describes t...

Jamila S. Taaki et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 1

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Suppression in logarithmic units (diffraction i...

Suppression in logarithmic units (diffraction intensity at the telescope aperture ...

Jamila S. Taaki et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 1

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The relative complexity in real FLOPs among 2D ...

The relative complexity in real FLOPs among 2D Fourier-transform computations described ...

Jamila S. Taaki et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 1

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Illustration of the starshade and pupil plane s...

Illustration of the starshade and pupil plane sampling (not to scale). The pupil radius ...

Jamila S. Taaki et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 1

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Core throughput within a photometric aperture o...

Core throughput within a photometric aperture of radius 0.7λ/D for wavelengths ranging f...

Jamila S. Taaki et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 1

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Baseline HWO segmented and obscured telescope a...

Baseline HWO segmented and obscured telescope apertures: “off-axis” (left), “on-axis” (r...

Jamila S. Taaki et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 1

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Example PSFs at 500 nm for the off-axis apertur...

Example PSFs at 500 nm for the off-axis aperture (left panels) and on-axis aperture (rig...

Jamila S. Taaki et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 1

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Solar system at 10 pc magnitude with HWO, face-...

Solar system at 10 pc magnitude with HWO, face-on in columns 1 and 2, and at an inclinat...

Jamila S. Taaki et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 1

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Core throughput within a photometric aperture o...

Core throughput within a photometric aperture of radius 0.7λ/D at 500 nm (left panel) an...

Jamila S. Taaki et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 1

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The suppression profile at the telescope apertu...

The suppression profile at the telescope aperture ﹩{f}_{P}^{\parallel }﹩ is shown simula...

Jamila S. Taaki et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 1

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Suppression (diffraction intensity at the teles...

Suppression (diffraction intensity at the telescope aperture) of a point source is shown...

Jamila S. Taaki et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 1

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Core throughput in the focal plane over a grid ...

Core throughput in the focal plane over a grid of source positions covering 2 · IWA at 5...

Jamila S. Taaki et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 1

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Image was taken in UT 2014 May using IMACS on t...

Image was taken in UT 2014 May using IMACS on the 6.5 m Magellan-Baade Telescope with a ...

Xiangyu Fan et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 2

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After the solar color has been removed, the spe...

After the solar color has been removed, the spectral slope of the asteroid is shown in t...

Xiangyu Fan et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 2

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Phased best fit double-peaked period for 2000 S...

Phased best fit double-peaked period for 2000 SY178 of 3.3282 hr. Fitting adopted a 6th ...

Xiangyu Fan et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 2

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Image was taken in UT 2025 March using YFOSC on...

Image was taken in UT 2025 March using YFOSC on the Lijiang 2.4 m Telescope by stacking ...

Xiangyu Fan et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 2

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The long-term light curve of 2000 SY178. The Ma...

The long-term light curve of 2000 SY178. The Magellan telescope observations in 2014 obt...

Xiangyu Fan et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 2

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PDM plot for 2000 SY178. Best fit single-peaked...

PDM plot for 2000 SY178. Best fit single-peaked period is about 1.6641 hr and the best f...

Xiangyu Fan et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 2

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Cellinoid shape model.

Xiangyu Fan et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 2

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Figure shows the distribution of pole orientati...

Figure shows the distribution of pole orientation. We gridded the pole orientation space...

Xiangyu Fan et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 2

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Figure shows the fitting result. The blue point...

Figure shows the fitting result. The blue points represent the observational data, while...

Xiangyu Fan et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 2

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Figure shows the fitting of our derived shape m...

Figure shows the fitting of our derived shape model to the observational data obtained o...

Xiangyu Fan et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 2

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Cellinoid shape of 2000 SY178 with different se...

Cellinoid shape of 2000 SY178 with different semiaxes. (x, y, z are the geometric axes; ...

Xiangyu Fan et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 2

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The photometric evolution of 2000 SY178 from 20...

The photometric evolution of 2000 SY178 from 2008 to 2025. Due to factors such as its sh...

Xiangyu Fan et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 2

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ZTF nightly stacks for C/2019 Y4-A on 2020 Octo...

ZTF nightly stacks for C/2019 Y4-A on 2020 October 14 (panel (a)) and 15 (panel (b)). Al...

Salvatore A. Cordova Quijano et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 2

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