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Nitrogen-bearing complex organic molecules have been commonly detected in the gas phase but not yet in interstellar ices. This has led to the long-standing question of whether these molecules form in the gas phase or in ices. $\textit{James…

We investigate the potential for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to detect and characterize the atmospheres of the sub-Neptunian exoplanets in the TOI-270 system. Sub-Neptunes are considered more likely to be water worlds than gas…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-13 J. Chouqar , Z. Benkhaldoun , A. Jabiri , J. Lustig-Yaeger , A. Soubkiou , A. Szentgyorgyi

To study the population properties of small, remote objects beyond Neptune's orbit in the outer solar system, of kilometer size or smaller, serendipitous occultation search is so far the only way. For hectometer-sized Trans-Neptunian…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Hsiang-Kuang Chang , Chih-Yuan Liu , Kuan-Ting Chen

The microwave radiometer aboard the Juno spacecraft provided a measurement of the water abundance found to range between 1 and 5.1 times the protosolar abundance of oxygen in the near-equatorial region of Jupiter. Here, we aim to combine…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-29 Olivier Mousis , Jonathan I. Lunine , Artyom Aguichine

We investigate the origins of the photometrically Very Red and Less Red Trans-Neptunian Objects. We first reanalyse the dataset of Marsset et al. 2019 and find that, in addition to the known color-inclination correlation in hot TNOs, a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-23 Mohamad Ali-Dib , Michael Marsset , Wing-Cheung Wong , Rola Dbouk

Recent transit observations of K2-18b and TOI-270d revealed strong molecular absorption signatures, lending credence to the idea that temperate sub-Neptunes (T$_\mathrm{eq}$=250-400K) have upper atmospheres mostly free of aerosols. These…

We report resolved photometry of the primary and secondary components of 23 transneptunian binaries obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope. V-I colors of the components range from 0.7 to 1.5 with a median uncertainty of 0.06 magnitudes.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. D. Benecchi , K. S. Noll , W. M. Grundy , M. W. Buie , D. C. Stephens , H. F. Levison

There are point-like sources in central regions of several supernova remnants which have not been detected outside the X-ray range. The X-ray spectra of these Central Compact Objects (CCOs) have thermal components with blackbody…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 George G. Pavlov , Divas Sanwal , Marcus A. Teter

Europa's surface composition and evidence for cryovolcanic activity can provide insight into the properties and composition of the subsurface ocean, allowing the evaluation of its potential habitability. One promising avenue for revealing…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-16 Jodi R. Berdis , James R. Murphy , Nancy J. Chanover

We examine images of the protoplanetary disk 114--426 with JWST/NIRCam in 12 bands. This large disk is oriented edge-on with a dark midplane flanked by lobes of scattered light. The outer edges of the midplane are seen in silhouette against…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-22 Nicholas P. Ballering , L. Ilsedore Cleeves , Ryan D. Boyden , Mark J. McCaughrean , Rachel E. Gross , Samuel G. Pearson

The hope is that in the near future neutrino astronomy, born with the identification of thermonuclear fusion in the sun and the particle processes controlling the fate of a nearby supernova, will reach throughout and beyond our Galaxy and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 S. Barwick , F. Halzen , P. B. Price

The study of small ($<$300 m) near-Earth objects (NEOs) is important because they are more closely related than larger objects to the precursors of meteorites that fall on Earth. Collisions of these bodies with Earth are also more frequent.…

Optical depth variations in the Galactic neutral interstellar medium (ISM) with spatial scales from hundreds to thousands of astronomical units have been observed through HI absorption against pulsars and continuum sources, while extremely…

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) provides low- to medium-resolution spectra with unprecedented precision and broad near- to mid-infrared wavelength coverage, enabling detailed characterization of exoplanet atmospheres. We present a new…

The first two observational sky "blocks" of the Outer Solar System Origins Survey (OSSOS) have significantly increased the number of well-characterized observed trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) in Neptune's mean motion resonances. We describe…

The Galileo Near Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (NIMS) collected spectra of Europa in the 0.7-5.2 $\mu$m wavelength region, which have been critical to improving our understanding of the surface composition of this moon. However, most of the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-27 Ishan Mishra , Nikole Lewis , Jonathan Lunine , Kevin P. Hand , Paul Helfenstein , R. W. Carlson , Ryan J. MacDonald

We present chemical abundance analyses of sodium, iron-peak and neutron-capture elements for 97 kinematically selected thick disk, inner halo and outer halo stars with metallicities -3.3<[Fe/H]<-0.5. The main aim of this study is to examine…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 Miho N. Ishigaki , Wako Aoki , Masashi Chiba

We computed Lyapunov times ($T_L$) for a sample of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) and outer main-belt asteroids (MBAs) using three numerical approaches: the variational method and two implementations of the renormalization technique. For…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-19 Paweł Wajer , Małgorzata Królikowska , Jakub Suchecki

We combine HST/NICMOS imaging photometry of the HR 4796A disk at previously unobserved wavelengths between 1.71-2.22\micron with reprocessed archival observations to produce a measure of the dust's scattering efficiency as a function of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. H. Debes , A. J. Weinberger , G. Schneider