Over the past three decades, we have witnessed one of the great revolutions in our understanding of the cosmos—the dawn of the Exoplanet Era. Where once we knew of just …
M Micheli, D Farnocchia, KJ Meech, MW Buie… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract 'Oumuamua (1I/2017 U1) is the first known object of interstellar origin to have entered the Solar System on an unbound and hyperbolic trajectory with respect to the Sun …
S Bialy, A Loeb - The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract'Oumuamua (1I/2017 U1) is the first object of interstellar origin observed in the solar system. Recently, Micheli et al. reported that'Oumuamua showed deviations from a …
Abstract In 2017, 1I/'Oumuamua was identified as the first known interstellar object in the Solar System. Although typical cometary activity tracers were not detected,,,–,'Oumuamua …
Abstract 1I/'Oumuamua is the first confirmed interstellar body in our solar system. Here we report on observations of'Oumuamua made with the Spitzer Space Telescope on 2017 …
Comets spend most of their lives at large distances from any star, during which time their interior compositions remain relatively unaltered. Cometary observations can therefore …
A Siraj, A Loeb - The Astrophysical Journal, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The earliest confirmed interstellar object,'Oumuamua, was discovered in the solar system by Pan-STARRS in 2017, allowing for a calibration of the abundance of interstellar objects of its …
A Fitzsimmons, O Hainaut, KJ Meech… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The detection of interstellar objects passing through the solar system offers the promise of constraining the physical and chemical processes involved in planetary formation in other …
D Seligman, G Laughlin - The Astronomical Journal, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
A rapid accumulation of observations and interpretation has followed in the wake of 1I'Oumuamua's passage through the inner solar system. We briefly outline the …