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Contemporaneous Optical and Near-infrared Observations of the Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Pre- and Postperihelion

  • Authors: Kyle Medler, Willem B. Hoogendam, Christopher Ashall, Bin Yang, James J. Wray, Benjamin J. Shappee, Karen J. Meech, Michael A. Tucker, Katie Auchettl, Dhvanil D. Desai, Jason T. Hinkle, Andrew M. Hoffman, Mark E. Huber, David O. Jones, Ruining Zhao

Kyle Medler et al 2026 The Astronomical Journal 172 .

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Caption: Figure 1.

Panchromatic reflectance spectra of 3I/ATLAS. All epochs show a clear rising continuum in the optical, peaking around 1.0 μm, indicative of a dusty coma. Between the second and third epochs, strong Ni and CN emission lines appear blueward of ∼0.4 μm, with Fe emission lines emerging as 3I/ATLAS made its perihelion passage. All spectra are normalized to reflectance at 0.5 μm, and the telluric regions are denoted by the vertical shaded regions. A zoomed-in view on the cometary emission region 0.33–0.5 μm is shown in Figure 2.

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