Experimental set-up of the MMS-2 incubation. (a) One side of a two compartment Petri dish was filled with 1 g of heat-treated MMS-2; the other side contained 10 mL of Milli-Q

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(top) Schematic of the novel region extraction (NRE) pipeline. NREs cascade a class-agnostic region proposal system with full-image novelty detection and can be trained like traditional reconstruction-based novelty detectors. (bottom)

(a) CORALS engineering test unit. (b) Schematic diagram of Fig. 1a illustrating key subsystems and components. (c) Ion optics simulation using SIMION® 8.1, showing a cut plane of the instrument.

Lower-triangular Pearson correlation matrix of the final feature set used in this study. Each cell shows the Pearson correlation coefficient between a pair of planetary or stellar properties, with the

Spectra of NEOs with (potential) 3 μm absorption features. (A) Spectrum of (161989) Cacus as observed on 2022 September 3 and 4. (B) (756998) 2024 CR9 as observed on 2024