JWST spatial-spectral maps of 3I/ATLAS reveal CO as the primary volatile with H2O and CO2 abundances of 40.5% and 41.6% relative to CO, anisotropic distributions for apolar molecules, and a flat H2O OPR of 2.7.
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Coma Physics of an Interstellar Object: JWST Spatial-Spectral Mapping of 3I/ATLAS
JWST spatial-spectral maps of 3I/ATLAS reveal CO as the primary volatile with H2O and CO2 abundances of 40.5% and 41.6% relative to CO, anisotropic distributions for apolar molecules, and a flat H2O OPR of 2.7.