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A Survey of CO, CO₂, and H₂O in Comets and Centaurs

Bauer, James; Harrington Pinto, Olga; Womack, Maria +1 more

CO and CO₂ are the two dominant carbon-bearing molecules in comae and have major roles in driving activity. Their relative abundances also provide strong observational constraints to models of solar system formation and evolution but have never been studied together in a large sample of comets. We carefully compiled and analyzed publish…