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The Highly Unusual Behavior and Chemical Composition of Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov

  • Authors: Allison N. Bair, David G. Schleicher, Theodore Kareta, Matthew M. Knight, Michael S. P. Kelley

Allison N. Bair et al 2026 The Planetary Science Journal 7 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 6.

Pre-perihelion logarithmic production rate ratios for comet 2I/Borisov as a function of the log of the heliocentric distance (log rH). Colors and symbols are the same as in Figure 5. Borisov’s C2-to-CN production rate ratios greatly increased as the comet approached perihelion, while its dust production rate ratios as A(0°)fρ-to-CN peaked significantly before perihelion. The additional data are from A. Fitzsimmons et al. (2019), C. Opitom et al. (2019), E. Jehin et al. (2020b), H. W. Lin et al. (2020), Z. Xing et al. (2020), K. Aravind et al. (2021), and S. Deam et al. (2026).

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