The interstellar interlopers

D Jewitt, DZ Seligman - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Interstellar interlopers are bodies formed outside of the Solar System but observed passing
through it. The first two identified interlopers, 1I/'Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov, exhibited …

Solar system physics for exoplanet research

J Horner, SR Kane, JP Marshall… - Publications of the …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

Non-gravitational acceleration in the trajectory of 1I/2017 U1 ('Oumuamua)

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 …

Could solar radiation pressure explain 'Oumuamua's peculiar acceleration?

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 …

Acceleration of 1I/'Oumuamua from radiolytically produced H2 in H2O ice

JB Bergner, DZ Seligman - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
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 …

Spitzer observations of interstellar object 1I/'Oumuamua

DE Trilling, M Mommert, JL Hora… - The Astronomical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

Unusually high CO abundance of the first active interstellar comet

MA Cordiner, SN Milam, N Biver… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
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 meteor of apparent interstellar origin in the CNEOS fireball catalog

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 …

Detection of CN gas in interstellar object 2I/Borisov

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 …

The feasibility and benefits of in situ exploration of 'Oumuamua-like objects

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 …