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 …

A survey of CO, CO2, and H2O in comets and centaurs

OH Pinto, M Womack, Y Fernandez… - The Planetary Science …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
CO and CO 2 are the two dominant carbon-bearing molecules in comae and have major
roles in driving activity. Their relative abundances also provide strong observational …

The population of interstellar objects detectable with the LSST and accessible for in situ rendezvous with various mission designs

DJ Hoover, DZ Seligman… - The Planetary Science …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The recently discovered population of interstellar objects presents us with the opportunity to
characterize material from extrasolar planetary and stellar systems up close. The …

The gas production of 14 species from comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko based on DFMS/COPS data from 2014 to 2016

M Läuter, T Kramer, M Rubin… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The coma of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko has been probed by the Rosetta
spacecraft and shows a variety of different molecules. The ROSINA COmet Pressure Sensor …

Constraints on the occurrence of 'Oumuamua-like objects

WG Levine, SHC Cabot, D Seligman… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
At present, there exists no consensus in the astronomical community regarding either the
bulk composition or the formation mechanism for the interstellar object 1I/2017 U1 …

A predicted dearth of majority hypervolatile ices in oort cloud comets

CM Lisse, GR Gladstone, LA Young… - The Planetary …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present new, ice species-specific New Horizons/Alice upper gas coma production limits
from the 2019 January 1 MU69/Arrokoth flyby of Gladstone et al. and use them to make …

Dark comets? Unexpectedly large nongravitational accelerations on a sample of small asteroids

DZ Seligman, D Farnocchia, M Micheli… - The Planetary …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We report statistically significant detections of nonradial, nongravitational accelerations
based on astrometric data in the photometrically inactive objects 1998 KY 26, 2005 VL 1 …

Unraveling sulfur chemistry in interstellar carbon oxide ices

X Li, B Lu, L Wang, J Xue, B Zhu, T Trabelsi… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Formyl radical (HCO•) and hydroxycarbonyl radical (HOCO•) are versatile building blocks in
the formation of biorelevant complex organic molecules (COMs) in interstellar medium …

Gaseous atomic nickel in the coma of interstellar comet 2I/Borisov

P Guzik, M Drahus - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
On 31 August 2019, an interstellar comet was discovered as it passed through the Solar
System (2I/Borisov). On the basis of initial imaging observations, 2I/Borisov seemed to be …

Bridge to the stars: A mission concept to an interstellar object

K Moore, S Courville, S Ferguson, A Schoenfeld… - Planetary and Space …, 2021 - Elsevier
Exoplanet discoveries since the mid-1990's have revealed an astounding diversity of
planetary systems. Studying these systems is essential to understanding planetary formation …