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3I/ATLAS 过近日点后喷流结构的周期性摆动

Periodic Wobble of the Post-Perihelion Jet Structure Around 3I/ATLAS

Toni Scarmato’s Astronomical Observatory(托尼·斯卡马托天文台);Harvard University(哈佛大学)

Toni Scarmato, Abraham Loeb

AI总结:

通过分析哈勃望远镜图像和地面测光数据,发现星际天体3I/ATLAS过近日点后喷流位置角和彗发光度存在约7.1小时的周期性变化,归因于非主轴旋转的姿态进动/章动。

摘要:

我们分析了过近日点后形态数据,包括喷流位置角(PAs)和以彗发为主的光度测量,研究对象为星际天体3I/ATLAS。利用Larson-Sekanina旋转梯度滤波器处理的哈勃空间望远镜(HST)图像,我们测量了2025年11月30日至12月27日期间三个主要持久喷流状特征的位置角,并在周期扫描中拟合了加权傅里叶模型。主导喷流PA摆动给出Pjet = 7.20 ± 0.05小时。另一组独立的Gr(R波段)时域测光数据,使用MPC站L92的两个不同孔径,经夜间偏移校正和30分钟分箱分析,得到Pphot = 7.136 ± 0.001小时(形式1σ),半振幅A约0.311星等,散射σj约0.089星等。两个周期之间的紧密一致性支持约7.1小时的特征过近日点后周期。我们将此周期解释为由喷流方向和彗发通量再分布追踪的姿态进动/章动(非主轴旋转)。喷流结构绕自转轴进动,特征角偏移约20度,且自转轴与太阳方向对齐在约20度以内。

英文摘要:

We analyse data on the post-perihelion morphology, including jet position angles (PAs) and coma dominated photometry of the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS. From Hubble Space Telescope (HST) images processed with a Larson Sekanina rotational gradient filter, we measure the PAs of three main persistent jet like features between November 30 and December 27, 2025 and fit a weighted Fourier model in a period scan. The dominant jet PA wobble yields Pjet = 7.20 +/- 0.05 h. An independent Gr (R band) time-series photometry data set, using two different apertures from MPC station L92, analyzed with nightly offsets and 30 minute binning, gives Pphot = 7.136 +/- 0.001 h (formal 1sigma), with a semiamplitude A about 0.311 mag and scatter sigmajit about 0.089 mag. The close agreement beetwen the periods supports a characteristic post-perihelion period of about 7.1 h. We interpret this period as an attitude precession/nutation (non principal axis rotation) traced by jet orientation and coma flux redistribution. The jet structure precesses about the rotation axis with a characteristic angular excursion of order about 20 degs, and the rotation axis is aligned with the sunward direction to within about 20 degs.

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