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Caption: Figure 1.
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.
(The data used to create this figure are available in the online article.)
(The data used to create this figure are available.)
© 2026. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.