A JWST Study of Stardust. II. Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Comet 81P/Wild 2 and Implications for Primitive Solar System Carbon

arXiv:2609.34116 · astro-ph.EP · Submitted 2026-09-28 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-28

Updated: 2026-09-28

Terminology

Aperture — 18× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Hydrogen Deficiency Index — 5× in this paper
James Webb Space Telescope — 3× in this paper
NASA Planetary Spectrum Generator — 3× in this paper
Trace — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
1 µm Feature — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Absorption Cross Section — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Abundance — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Aperture Correction — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Effective Hamiltonian — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Forward modeling — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
JWST MIRI Medium Resolution Spectroscopy — 1× in this paper
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory — 1× in this paper
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Whole Heliosphere Interval — 1× in this paper