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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

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FWHM of the dust tail as a function of distance from the nucleus on 2026 January 18. Positive and negative distances denote the tail and antitail sides, respectively. Horizontal error bars indicate the segments along the projected tail axis over which the profiles were measured, and the vertical error bars show the FWHM uncertainties. Filled circles and open squares mark the tail and antitail measurements. The solid and dashed–dotted curves are separate fits to Equation (4), and the dashed–dotted curves show the corresponding ±1σ velocity ranges. The vertical line marks the nucleus.

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