Ye 叶, Quanzhi 泉志 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4838-7676
Kelley, Michael S. P. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6702-7676
Hsieh, Henry H. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7225-9271
Bellm, Eric C. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8018-5348
Chen, Tracy X. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9152-6224
Dekany, Richard https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5884-7867
Drake, Andrew https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0228-6594
Groom, Steven L. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5668-3507
Helou, George https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3367-3415
Kulkarni, Shrinivas R. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5390-8563
Prince, Thomas A. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8850-3627
Riddle, Reed https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0387-370X
Funding for this research was provided by:
NASA ∣ SMD ∣ Planetary Science Division (80NSSC21K0659)
Article Title: Prediscovery Activity of New Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS: Rapid Brightening from 6 to 4 au
Journal Title: The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Article Type: paper
Copyright Information: © 2025. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.
Publication dates
Date Received: 2025-09-10
Date Accepted: 2025-10-15
Online publication date: 2025-10-29