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JWST and Gemini Observations of the Active Centaur 450P/LONEOS: Nucleus and Coma Characterizations

  • Authors: Charles A. Schambeau, Michael S. P. Kelley, Maria Womack, Eva Lilly, Theodore Kareta, Sara Faggi, Olga Harrington Pinto, Marco Micheli, Dominique Bockelée-Morvan, Yanga R. Fernández, Adam McKay, Noemi Pinilla-Alonso, Javier Licandro, Aren Beck, Geronimo L. Villanueva, James Bauer, Lori Feaga, Michael A. DiSanti, Kacper Wierzchos

Charles A. Schambeau et al 2026 The Planetary Science Journal 7 .

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Caption: Figure 6.

Measurements of the dust and CO2 gas emission in 450P’s coma. The left two panels display the dust and CO2 gas surface brightness maps. The location of 450P’s nucleus is indicated by the cross in each image, and the panel orientations and sky-plane velocity vector directions are the same as in Figure 4. A scale bar is included in the dust image. The dust image shows elongated structure with a tail, while the CO2 is much more symmetric. The right panel displays radial surface brightness profiles for CO2 (solid blue line) and dust (dashed orange line) plotted against projected cometocentric distance (sunward corresponds to negative values, and antisunward/tailward corresponds to positive values of the abscissa). Each radial profile is normalized to 1 in the central pixel, and the dust profile also includes the nucleus’s contribution. For reference, the peak values of each profile before normalization are 227.95 MJy sr−1 for the nucleus + dust and 3.57 MJy sr−1 for the CO2 profiles.

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