COSINE (Cometary Object Study Investigating their Nature and Evolution) II: Colors and Sizes of Comet Nuclei

arXiv:2609.32110 · astro-ph.EP · Submitted 2026-09-26 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-26

Updated: 2026-09-26

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Terminology

• Degeneracy — 7× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Trace — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 5× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Aperture — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Clustering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Homogeneity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Markov Chain Monte Carlo — 1× in this paper

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