The Picard group of the variety of plane cuspidal cubics of \(\mathbb{P}^3\) (Q1567575)

Consider the family \(M\) of nondegenerate plane cuspidal cubics in \({\mathbb{P}^3}\). A compactification \(\bar{M}\) can be constructed as the projectivization \(\bar{M}=\mathbb{P}({\mathcal E})\) of a suitable vector bundle \({\mathcal E}\). The author constructs a resolution of \(\bar{M}\) and uses this to compute the Chow ring \(\text{CH}(\bar{M})\) (and hence, in particular, the Picard group \(\text{Pic}(\bar{M})\)).