SPHEREx Discovery of Strong Water Ice Absorption and an Extended Carbon Dioxide Coma in 3I/ATLAS
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| author | Lisse, C. M. Bach, Y. P. Bryan, S. Crill, B. P. Cukierman, A. Doré, O. Fabinsky, B. Faisst, A. Korngut, P. M. Melnick, G. Rustamkulov, Z. Tolls, V. Werner, M. Sitko, M. L. Champagne, C. Connelley, M. Emery, J. P. Fernandez, Y. R. Yang, B. Team, the SPHEREx Science |
| author_facet | Lisse, C. M. Bach, Y. P. Bryan, S. Crill, B. P. Cukierman, A. Doré, O. Fabinsky, B. Faisst, A. Korngut, P. M. Melnick, G. Rustamkulov, Z. Tolls, V. Werner, M. Sitko, M. L. Champagne, C. Connelley, M. Emery, J. P. Fernandez, Y. R. Yang, B. Team, the SPHEREx Science |
| contents | In mid-August 2025, 0.75-5.0 micron SPHEREx imaging spectrophotometric and ancillary NASA-IRTF SpeX 0.7-2.5 micron low-resolution spectral observations of Interstellar Object 3I ATLAS were obtained. The combined spectrophotometry is dominated by features due to water ice absorption and CO2 gas emission. A bright, 3 arcmin radius CO2 gas coma was clearly resolved, corresponding to Qgas,CO2 = 9.4 x 10{^26} molec/sec. From the SPHEREx photometry, we put conservative, preliminary 3sigma upper limits on the gas production rates for H2O and CO of 1.5 x 10{^26} and 2.8 x 10{^26} molec/sec. No obvious jet, tail, or trail structures were found in SPHEREx images. Assuming all observed 1-um flux is scattered light from an pv = 0.04 albedo spherical nucleus, its radius would be 23 km. Compared to the nucleus size limit r = 2.8km of Jewitt+ 2025, this suggests that greater than 99 percent of the measured SPHEREx continuum flux is from coma dust. |
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| spellingShingle | SPHEREx Discovery of Strong Water Ice Absorption and an Extended Carbon Dioxide Coma in 3I/ATLAS Lisse, C. M. Bach, Y. P. Bryan, S. Crill, B. P. Cukierman, A. Doré, O. Fabinsky, B. Faisst, A. Korngut, P. M. Melnick, G. Rustamkulov, Z. Tolls, V. Werner, M. Sitko, M. L. Champagne, C. Connelley, M. Emery, J. P. Fernandez, Y. R. Yang, B. Team, the SPHEREx Science Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Astrophysics of Galaxies Solar and Stellar Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology In mid-August 2025, 0.75-5.0 micron SPHEREx imaging spectrophotometric and ancillary NASA-IRTF SpeX 0.7-2.5 micron low-resolution spectral observations of Interstellar Object 3I ATLAS were obtained. The combined spectrophotometry is dominated by features due to water ice absorption and CO2 gas emission. A bright, 3 arcmin radius CO2 gas coma was clearly resolved, corresponding to Qgas,CO2 = 9.4 x 10{^26} molec/sec. From the SPHEREx photometry, we put conservative, preliminary 3sigma upper limits on the gas production rates for H2O and CO of 1.5 x 10{^26} and 2.8 x 10{^26} molec/sec. No obvious jet, tail, or trail structures were found in SPHEREx images. Assuming all observed 1-um flux is scattered light from an pv = 0.04 albedo spherical nucleus, its radius would be 23 km. Compared to the nucleus size limit r = 2.8km of Jewitt+ 2025, this suggests that greater than 99 percent of the measured SPHEREx continuum flux is from coma dust. |
| title | SPHEREx Discovery of Strong Water Ice Absorption and an Extended Carbon Dioxide Coma in 3I/ATLAS |
| topic | Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Astrophysics of Galaxies Solar and Stellar Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15469 |