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The top row shows heat maps of the primary frag...

The top row shows heat maps of the primary fragment mass fraction for trials S1, M1, and...

Julian C. Marohnic et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 3

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The five bonded-aggregate shapes used in this s...

The five bonded-aggregate shapes used in this study, referred to as the “constituents.” ...

Julian C. Marohnic et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 3

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Heat maps in the style of Figure 4, but for tri...

Heat maps in the style of Figure 4, but for trials S2, M2, and R2.

Julian C. Marohnic et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 3

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Heat maps of the mass fraction in orbit around ...

Heat maps of the mass fraction in orbit around the primary fragment for the lower-resolu...

Julian C. Marohnic et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 3

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Heat maps of the mass fraction in orbit around ...

Heat maps of the mass fraction in orbit around the primary fragment for the higher-resol...

Julian C. Marohnic et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 3

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Still image from a tidal encounter simulation i...

Still image from a tidal encounter simulation in trial M1 (see Table 1 for an inventory ...

Julian C. Marohnic et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 3

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The most massive fragments remaining after disr...

The most massive fragments remaining after disruption simulations from trials S1 (left) ...

Julian C. Marohnic et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 3

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Comparison of the 15% disruption threshold as a...

Comparison of the 15% disruption threshold as a function of close-approach speed and dis...

Julian C. Marohnic et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 3

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Heat maps of primary fragment elongation for tr...

Heat maps of primary fragment elongation for trials S2, M2, and R2. The line plot shows ...

Julian C. Marohnic et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 3

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Plot of the interior, middle, and surface mater...

Plot of the interior, middle, and surface material fractions of disruption fragments as ...

Julian C. Marohnic et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 3

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Comparison of the 0.5 elongation threshold as a...

Comparison of the 0.5 elongation threshold as a function of close-approach speed and dis...

Julian C. Marohnic et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 3

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Heat maps of total fragment production for tria...

Heat maps of total fragment production for trials S2, M2, and R2. We include any agglome...

Julian C. Marohnic et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 3

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Heat maps of fragment production for trials S2,...

Heat maps of fragment production for trials S2, M2, and R2, including only fragments 5% ...

Julian C. Marohnic et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 3

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Heat maps of fragment production for trials S1,...

Heat maps of fragment production for trials S1, M1, and R1, including only fragments 5% ...

Julian C. Marohnic et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 3

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Snapshot of a tidal disruption from trial M1. C...

Snapshot of a tidal disruption from trial M1. Constituents are color-coded by their dept...

Julian C. Marohnic et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 3

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Heat maps of total fragment production for tria...

Heat maps of total fragment production for trials S1, M1, and R1. We include any agglome...

Julian C. Marohnic et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 3

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Heat maps of primary fragment elongation for tr...

Heat maps of primary fragment elongation for trials S1, M1, and R1. The line plot shows ...

Julian C. Marohnic et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 3

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Close-up snapshot of the primary fragment from ...

Close-up snapshot of the primary fragment from the disruption shown in Figure 17, seen f...

Julian C. Marohnic et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 3

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The fraction of fragments that are homogeneous ...

The fraction of fragments that are homogeneous in the origin of their constituent partic...

Julian C. Marohnic et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 3

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The span of eclipse depths of GJ 3473 b in the ...

The span of eclipse depths of GJ 3473 b in the MIRI F1500W bandpass for different bare-r...

Måns Holmberg et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 4

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MIRI F1500W light curves of GJ 3473 b at second...

MIRI F1500W light curves of GJ 3473 b at secondary eclipse. The raw and binned data are ...

Måns Holmberg et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 4

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The eclipse depth of GJ 3473 b as a function of...

The eclipse depth of GJ 3473 b as a function of wavelength for a range of best-fit bare-...

Måns Holmberg et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 4

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Settling behavior of the point-spread function ...

Settling behavior of the point-spread function (PSF) across the four visits. Visits 1–3 ...

Måns Holmberg et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 4

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Detection significance of an atmosphere on GJ 3...

Detection significance of an atmosphere on GJ 3473 b as a function of the eclipse depth ...

Måns Holmberg et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 4

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Single-scattering albedo of Basalt powder at va...

Single-scattering albedo of Basalt powder at varying degrees of space weathering via the...

Måns Holmberg et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 4

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