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most citedUnveiling the ice and gas nature of active centaur (2060) Chiron using the James Webb Space Telescope

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astro-ph.EP2025★ 1 cited

JWST occultation reveals unforeseen complexity in Chariklo's ring system

Pablo Santos-Sanz, Altair R. Gomes-Júnior, Bruno E. Morgado +25

Ring systems have been discovered around several small bodies in the outer Solar System through stellar occultations. While such measurements provide key information about ring geo…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 1 cited

JWST/NIRSpec Observations of Salacia-Actaea and Máni: Exploring Population-level Trends among Water-ice-rich Kuiper Belt Objects

Ian Wong, Bryan J. Holler, Silvia Protopapa +9

We present observations of the midsized Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) SalaciaActaea and Máni, obtained with the Near-Infrared Spectrograph on JWST. The satellite Actaea was fully b…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 10 cited

The Atmosphere of Titan in Late Northern Summer from JWST and Keck Observations

Conor A. Nixon, Bruno Bézard, Thomas Cornet +42

Saturn's moon Titan undergoes a long annual cycle of 29.45 Earth years. Titan's northern winter and spring were investigated in detail by the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft (2004-2017)…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 20 cited

Unveiling the ice and gas nature of active centaur (2060) Chiron using the James Webb Space Telescope

N. Pinilla-Alonso, J. Licandro, R. Brunetto +15

(2060) Chiron is a large centaur that has been reported active on multiple occasions including during aphelion passage. Studies of Chirons coma during active periods have resulted…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 1 cited

A Tale of 3 Dwarf Planets: Ices and Organics on Sedna, Gonggong, and Quaoar from JWST Spectroscopy

J. P. Emery, I. Wong, R. Brunetto +10

We observed Sedna, Gonggong, and Quaoar with the NIRSpec instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). All three bodies were observed in the low-resolution prism mode at wav…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 2 cited

JWST molecular mapping and characterization of Enceladus' water plume feeding its torus

G. L. Villanueva, H. B. Hammel, S. N. Milam +18

Enceladus is a prime target in the search for life in our solar system, having an active plume likely connected to a large liquid water subsurface ocean. Using the sensitive NIRSpe…