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On the Border: Searching for Cometary Activity Near the Centaur-JFC Transition Line
A. Fraser Gillan, Alan Fitzsimmons, Colin Orion Chandler +2
Current wide-field surveys discover ~15 Jupiter-family comets (JFCs) each year, typically identified via visual detection of a dust coma or tail. The same surveys also discover man…
ATLAS Photometry of Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS
John Tonry, Larry Denneau, Miguel Alarcon +7
We present calibrated ATLAS photometry of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS (C/2025 N1) from 28 March through 29 Aug 2025, obtained with the five-site, robotic ATLAS network in the c…
Dust production rates in Jupiter-family comets II: Trends and population insights from ATLAS photometry of 116 JFCs
A. Fraser Gillan, Alan Fitzsimmons, Larry Denneau +4
Jupiter-family comets (JFCs) have orbital periods of less than 20 years and therefore undergo more frequent sublimation compared to other comet populations. The JFCs therefore repr…