3 papers
astro-ph.EP2025
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
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…
astro-ph.EP2025
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)…