Increasing Sensitivity to Trailed Solar System Objects in Archival JWST NIRCam Imaging with Group Differencing

arXiv:2609.27140 · astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.EP · Submitted 2026-09-22 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.EP

Submitted: 2026-09-22

Updated: 2026-09-22

Code: https://github.com/Corrado777/JWSTRamp-Slicer

Terminology

• Aperture — 44× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 19× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• James Webb Space Telescope — 5× in this paper
• Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes — 2× in this paper
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Homogeneity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Gaia Data Release 3: Summary of the content and survey properties
• Data analysis recipes: Fitting a model to data
• Best practices for obtaining astrometric observations from JWST (274) NIRCam data

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