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A Portrait throughout Perihelion of the NH2-rich Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov

  • Authors: Sophie E. Deam, Michele T. Bannister, Cyrielle Opitom, Matthew M. Knight, Léa Ferellec, Ryan Ridden-Harper, Darryl Z. Seligman, Alan Fitzsimmons, Aurélie Guilbert-Lepoutre, Emmanuel Jehin, Laurent Jorda, Michael Marsset, Youssef Moulane, Philippe Rousselot, Pierre Vernazza, Bin Yang

Sophie E. Deam et al 2026 The Planetary Science Journal 7 .

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Caption: Figure 12.

C2 emission maps. Each image is centered on 2I (black cross) and displayed with a linear stretch over a zscale interval. Contour lines mark regions of equal flux and highlight when 2I was discernible above the flux of background stars for the specific wavelength range (see Table 2). North is up, east is to the left, and the antisolar (-⊙) and negative velocity (V) directions are shown with the respective arrows. The clustering of contours near the image borders is because not all exposures span the entire frame once 2I is in the center, caused by the dithering in the imaging technique, resulting in fewer frames contributing to the coadd along the borders.

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