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Interstellar Interloper 3I/ATLAS: Nucleus Size, Photometry in RGB, Af(rho) and Antitail Structure Analysis

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics 2025-12-30 v1 Astrophysics of Galaxies Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Abstract

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS (C/2025 N1) exhibits an unusual, tightly collimated dust feature in the sunward hemisphere which has been widely described as an anti-tail. At the same time, precise constraints on the nucleus size have been derived from a combination of high-resolution imaging and non-gravitational dynamics. In this work I present a unified analysis that combines existing constraints on the nucleus radius with new ground-based RGB imaging of the dust anti-tail obtained with a 0.25 m telescope at the Toni Scarmato Astronomical Observatory (MPC L92).

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@article{arxiv.2512.22365,
  title  = {Interstellar Interloper 3I/ATLAS: Nucleus Size, Photometry in RGB, Af(rho) and Antitail Structure Analysis},
  author = {Toni Scarmato},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.22365},
  year   = {2025}
}

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14 pages, 1 figure