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IFU Observations of Comet 3I/ATLAS = C/2025 N1 (ATLAS) Using the Hobby–Eberly Telescope with the VIRUS Instrument

  • Authors: Anita L. Cochran, Gregory Zeimann, Emmanuel Jehin, Hideyo Kawakita, Adam J. McKay

Anita L. Cochran et al 2026 The Planetary Science Journal 7 .

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Caption: Figure 4.

The column densities for CN, C3, CH, and C2 (two bands) are shown as a function of distance to the optocenter. Models using the scale lengths of A. L. Cochran et al. (2012) are shown with orange lines. Models using scale lengths that are scaled by the low velocity of 3I (0.3 km s−1) are shown with red lines. The error bars in the inner coma are smaller than the point markers. Even the least reliable column densities, those for C3 and CH, have log column density error bars less than ±0.1 for the data at the largest distances from the optocenter.

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