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JWST Characterization of Earth Quasi-satellite (469219) Kamo‘oalewa

  • Authors: Benjamin N. L. Sharkey, Vishnu Reddy, John W. Noonan, Theodore Kareta, James M. Bauer, Bryan J. Holler, Yaeji Kim, Albert R. Conrad

Benjamin N. L. Sharkey et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1010 .

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Kamo‘oalewa’s irradiance averaged across all JWST observations. Approximate regions for reflectance and thermal emission are noted. Kamo‘oalewa displays very little thermal emission short of 4.5 μm. We linearly extrapolate the reflected flux near 3.25–3.75 μm in order to constrain the contributions from emitted fluxes at λ > 4.5 μm. The slope of this extrapolation is fit by our models, with a typical example illustrated in magenta. The irradiance spectra for all 27 individual JWST observations are available in machine-readable format as the data behind the figure.

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