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Dust Activity Evolution and Constraints on Icy Grains in the Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

  • Authors: Bin Liu, Xiaoping Zhang, Xiaodong Liu, Man-To Hui

Bin Liu et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1008 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 5.

Local sublimation lifetimes and sublimation distances of icy grains. Top: local sublimation timescale τloc for grains with a0 = 1, 5, and 10 μm. Horizontal dashed lines mark 1 day, 1 month, and 1 yr. Bottom: corresponding sublimation distance. Filled symbols show the destruction-length measurements, while the open symbol marks the measurement with a larger inferred scale and larger uncertainty.

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