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Search for Past Stellar Encounters and the Origin of 3I/ATLAS

Yiyang Guo, Luyao Zhang, Fabo Feng, 2025. AJ 170, 362.

25 stellar encounters <1 pc, none a plausible host (speeds >20 km/s); closest perturber a wide M-dwarf binary at 0.242 pc 1.64 Myr ago; thin-disk origin strongly favoured.

MYS0DFPTE25MVWR · mystery · click to copyM3I/ATLASArticledoi: 10.3847/1538-3881/ae18330

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Guo, Y., Zhang, L., & Feng, F. (2025). Search for Past Stellar Encounters and the Origin of 3I/ATLAS. AJ 170, 362. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ae1833
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