Acknowledgement
The ICON data are open to the public at: https://icon.ssl.berkeley.edu/Data. GOLD data and quicklook images are available at: https://gold.cs.ucf.edu/data/search/. J. Park was supported by the National Research Council of Science & Technology (NST) grant by the Korea government (MSIT) (No. CPS21161-120) and the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute grant funded by the Korea government (MSIT) (No. 2022-1-850-09).
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