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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

(523599) 2003 RM: The Asteroid that Wanted to be a Comet

D Farnocchia, DZ Seligman, M Granvik… - The Planetary …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We report a statistically significant detection of nongravitational acceleration on the
subkilometer near-Earth asteroid (523599) 2003 RM. Due to its orbit, 2003 RM experiences …

The volatile carbon-to-oxygen ratio as a tracer for the formation locations of interstellar comets

DZ Seligman, LA Rogers, SHC Cabot… - The Planetary …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Based on the occurrence rates implied by the discoveries of 1I/'Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov,
the forthcoming Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) should …

The interstellar interlopers

D Jewitt, DZ Seligman - arxiv preprint arxiv:2209.08182, 2022 - arxiv.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 …

Fitting the Light Curve of 1I/'Oumuamua with a Nonprincipal Axis Rotational Model and Outgassing Torques

AG Taylor, DZ Seligman, OR Hainaut… - The Planetary Science …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, we investigate the nonprincipal axis (NPA) rotational state of 1I/'Oumuamua—
the first interstellar object discovered traversing the inner solar system—from its photometric …

Interstellar objects and exocomets

A Fitzsimmons, K Meech, L Matrà, S Pfalzner - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
In this chapter we review our knowledge of our galaxy's cometary population outside our
Oort Cloud-exocomets and Interstellar Objects (ISOs). We start with a brief overview of …

Interstellar objects

DZ Seligman, A Moro-Martín - Contemporary Physics, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Since 2017, two macroscopic interstellar objects have been discovered in the inner Solar
System, both of which are distinct in nature. The first interstellar object, 1I/'Oumuamua …