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astro-ph.EP2026
Linear Continuum Modelling to Explain The Majority of Bulk Features of Kuiper Belt Object Spectra
Wesley C. Fraser, Laura E. Buchanan, Ian Wong +2
The first analyses of the James Webb Space Telescope spectra of trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) revealed three discrete types of surfaces. This seems to contradict ground-based spec…
astro-ph.EP2025
JWST Spectroscopy of a Blue Binary Cold Classical Kuiper Belt Object
Ian Wong, Bryan J. Holler, Wesley C. Fraser +1
We present observations of two binary systems within the cold classical region of the Kuiper belt2001 XR254 and 2016 BP81obtained with the JWST Near-Infrared Spectrograph. Th…
astro-ph.EP2023
JWST near-infrared spectroscopy of the Lucy Jupiter Trojan flyby targets: Evidence for OH absorption, aliphatic organics, and CO
Ian Wong, Michael E. Brown, Joshua P. Emery +6
We present observations obtained with the Near Infrared Spectrograph on JWST of the five Jupiter Trojans that will be visited by the Lucy spacecraft -- the Patroclus-Menoetius bina…