Deep HST/STIS Coronagraphic Imaging of the beta Pictoris Debris Disk: On the Scattered Light Component of the Cat's Tail

arXiv:2609.30111 · astro-ph.EP · Submitted 2026-09-24 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-24

Updated: 2026-09-24

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• Aperture — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Aperture Photometry — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Invariant Markov Chain Monte Carlo — 1× in this paper
• Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes — 1× in this paper
• Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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