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Erratum: “Atomic Iron and Nickel in the Coma of C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake): Production Rates, Emission Mechanisms, and Possible Parents”(2021, PSJ, 2, 228)
S. J. Bromley et al 2026 The Planetary Science Journal 7 .
Caption: Figure 8.
(# bins = 10) of [Ni/OH], [Fe/OH], [Ni/CN], [Fe/CN], and [Ni/Fe] in log10 for all comets with measured nickel and iron production rates to date. Ni, Fe, OH, and CN production rates were taken from J. Manfroid et al. (2021), R. Meier et al. (1998), D. G. Schleicher & D. J. Osip (2002), and P. Guzik & M. Drahus (2021). Ratios for 2I/Borisov are indicated by dashed black vertical line, and ratios for Hyakutake are indicated by red dashed lines. Metal/molecule abundance ratios for Hyakutake were derived from the geometric mean of the constrained range of production rate in Hyakutake. For Ni/Fe, an abundance ratio derived from the column densities is also shown.
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