2 papers
astro-ph.EP2025
The interstellar heritage of comets
Karen Willacy, Liton Majumdar, Boncho Bonev +5
Comets have similar compositions to interstellar medium ices, suggesting at least some of their molecules maybe inherited from an earlier stage of evolution. To investigate the deg…
astro-ph.EP2024
Infrared Compositional Measurements in Comet C/2017 K2 (Pan-STARRS) at Heliocentric Distances Beyond 2.3 AU
Chemeda Ejeta, Erika Gibb, Michael A. DiSanti +11
Comet C/2017 K2 (Pan-STARRS) provided a rare opportunity to investigate the evolution of coma composition and outgassing patterns over a transitional heliocentric distance (Rh) ran…