JWST/MIRI Spectroscopy of the Quiescent Black Hole X-ray Binary XTE J1118+480: Constraints on Jet and Circumbinary Dust Contributions to the Mid-infrared Emission

arXiv:2609.36318 · astro-ph.HE · Submitted 2026-09-28 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-28

Updated: 2026-09-28

Terminology

• Aperture — 11× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 11× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Las Cumbres Observatory — 4× in this paper
• Aperture Photometry — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• James Webb Space Telescope — 2× in this paper
• Jansky Very Large Array — 2× in this paper
• Low-Resolution Spectroscopy — 2× in this paper
• Center for Astrophysics and Space Science — 1× in this paper
• Metallicity — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

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