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星际彗星3I/ATLAS过近日点后彗发成分的光谱研究

Post-perihelion Coma Composition of the Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS from Optical Spectroscopy

CAS Key Laboratory of Optical Astronomy, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院国家天文台光学天文重点实验室);Yunnan Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)(中国科学院云南天文台);School of Astronomy and Space Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院大学天文学与空间科学学院);Instituto de Estudios Astrofísicos, Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Universidad Diego Portales(迭戈帕托莱斯大学工程与科学学院天体物理研究所);Planetary Science Institute(行星科学研究所)

Ruining Zhao, Xiliang Zhang, Bin Yang, Xiangyu Fan, Shu Wang, Yang Huang, Jifeng Liu

AI总结:

通过光学光谱测量星际彗星3I/ATLAS过近日点后的气体产生率,发现C2消耗减少、金属释放与CO相关,并揭示出氧原子发射的额外来源。

摘要:

我们展示了星际彗星3I/ATLAS在2025年12月至2026年1月(日心距离1.8-3.3 au)期间的多历元光学光谱,获得了CN、C$_3$、C$_2$、CH和气态金属(Fe I和Ni I)的过近日点后产生率和混合比。我们的结果表明,彗发在过近日点后C$_2$的消耗比之前少,表明存在次表层激活或成分不均匀性。出气剖面显示出明显的近日点不对称性:CN和金属产生率在出向时比入向时下降得更缓慢,这与H$_2$O的报道行为一致,并暗示彗星活动模式在近日点附近发生了变化。尽管相对于其H$_2$O含量而言富含金属,3I遵循在不同起源彗星中观察到的金属-CO相关性,表明气态金属释放与含CO的挥发性储库的联系比与H$_2$O更紧密,可能以金属羰基化合物的形式存在。此外,[O I] λ6300发射在减去H$_2$O、CO$_2$和CO的预期贡献后显示出显著残余,这可能反映了这些分子光解离产率的系统不确定性或来自额外含氧母体的贡献。

英文摘要:

We present multi-epoch optical spectroscopy of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS obtained between December 2025 and January 2026 (heliocentric distances 1.8-3.3 au), yielding post-perihelion production rates and mixing ratios for CN, C$_3$, C$_2$, CH, and gaseous metals (Fe I and Ni I). Our results show that the coma is less depleted in C$_2$ after perihelion than before, indicative of subsurface activation or compositional heterogeneity. The outgassing profiles reveal a pronounced perihelion asymmetry: CN and metal production rates decline more gradually outbound than inbound, consistent with the reported behavior of H$_2$O and implying a change in the comet's activity pattern across perihelion. Despite being metal-rich relative to its H$_2$O content, 3I follows the metal-CO correlation observed in comets of diverse origins, suggesting that gaseous metal release is more closely linked to a CO-bearing volatile reservoir than to H$_2$O, potentially in the form of metal carbonyls. In addition, the [O I] $\lambda6300$ emission shows a significant residual after subtracting the expected contributions from H$_2$O, CO$_2$, and CO, which may reflect systematic uncertainties in the photodissociation yields of those molecules or a contribution from additional oxygen-bearing parents.

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