The amount of aggregate purchase price of common stock issued.

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Share price expressed as a Percentage of share price of initial public offering.

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The cash outflow for cost incurred directly with the issuance of an equity security.

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Reference 1: http://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/legacyRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 230
-SubTopic 10
-Section 45
-Paragraph 15
-URI https://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=126954810&loc=d3e3291-108585

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Cash received on stock transaction after deduction of issuance costs.

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The number of shares issued or sold by the subsidiary or equity method investee per stock transaction.

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Per share amount received by subsidiary or equity investee for each share of common stock issued or sold in the stock transaction.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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COMPANY BACKGROUND - Offerings (Details) - USD ($)				1 Months Ended		6 Months Ended	9 Months Ended
COMPANY BACKGROUND - Offerings (Details) - USD ($)	Mar. 19, 2021	Mar. 17, 2021	Mar. 16, 2021	Oct. 31, 2021	May 31, 2021	Oct. 31, 2021	Sep. 30, 2022	Sep. 30, 2021
Subsidiary, Sale of Stock [Line Items]
Proceeds from issuance of common stock						$ 0
Offering expenses						$ 1,763,000	$ 0	$ 8,706,000
Apollo Stockholder
Subsidiary, Sale of Stock [Line Items]
Shares issued (in shares)				8,500,000	7,250,000
Share price (in dollars per share)				$ 32.50	$ 34.50	$ 32.50
IPO
Subsidiary, Sale of Stock [Line Items]
Shares issued (in shares)	10,454,545		9,090,909
Share price (in dollars per share)			$ 24.00
Proceeds from issuance of common stock	$ 225,329,000
Underwriters option
Subsidiary, Sale of Stock [Line Items]
Shares issued (in shares)		1,363,636		435,291	1,087,500
Private placement \| Apollo Stockholder \| PAR Investment Partners, L.P
Subsidiary, Sale of Stock [Line Items]
Shares issued (in shares)			2,216,312
Aggregate purchase price			$ 50,000,000
Share price percentage of IPO share price			94.00%
Private placement \| Apollo Stockholder \| Certain funds or accounts managed by an investment adviser subsidiary of Blackrock, Inc
Subsidiary, Sale of Stock [Line Items]
Shares issued (in shares)			2,216,308
Aggregate purchase price			$ 50,000,000
Share price percentage of IPO share price			94.00%