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The nature of 1I/'Oumuamua (henceforth, 1I), the first interstellar object known to pass through the solar system, remains mysterious. Feng \& Jones noted that the incoming 1I velocity vector "at infinity" ($\textbf{v}_{\infty}$) is close…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-03 T. Marshall Eubanks

1I/2017 U1 'Oumuamua is the first interstellar object recorded inside the Solar System. We try to answer the main question: where does it come from? To this aim we searched for close encounters between 'Oumuamua and all nearby stars with…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-28 Piotr A. Dybczyński , Małgorzata Królikowska

The first 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 size and an estimation of the subset of objects trapped by the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-20 Amir Siraj , Abraham Loeb

The recently discovered first interstellar object 1I/2017 U1 (`Oumuamua) has brightness that varies by a factor of 10, a range greater than that of any Solar System asteroid, a spectrum characteristic of Type D asteroids, and no evidence of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-16 J. I. Katz

I present a re-analysis of the available observational constraints on the trajectory of 'Oumuamua, the first confirmed interstellar object discovered in the solar system. 'Oumuamua passed through the inner solar system on a hyperbolic…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-17 Federico Spada

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 exhibited a significant non-gravitational acceleration. To date there…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-30 Jennifer Bergner , Darryl Seligman

1I/`Oumuamua is the first known interstellar small body, probably being only about 100~m in size. Against expectations based on comets, `Oumuamua does not show any activity and has a very elongated figure, and also exhibits undamped…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-10 Matija Ćuk

The first definitely interstellar object 1I/'Oumuamua (previously A/2017 U1) observed in our solar system provides the opportunity to directly study material from other star systems. Can such objects be intercepted? The challenge of…

The first interstellar object, `Oumuamua, was discovered in the Solar System by Pan-STARRS in 2017, allowing for a calibration of the impact rate of interstellar meteors of its size $\sim 100\;$m. The discovery of CNEOS 2014-01-08 allowed…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-18 Amir Siraj , Abraham Loeb

1I/'Oumuamua is the first interstellar interloper to have been detected. Because planetesimal formation and ejection of predominantly icy objects are common by-products of the star and planet formation processes, in this study we address…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-31 Amaya Moro-Martín

We scrutinize the light sail scenario of the first interstellar object (ISO) 1I/2017 U1 (`Oumuamua) by making comparisons between physical models and observational constraints. These analyses can be generalized for future surveys of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-16 Wen-Han Zhou , Shang-Fei Liu , Yun Zhang , Douglas N. C. Lin

Discovered in October 2017, the interstellar object designated 1I/'Oumuamua was the first such object to be observed travelling through our solar system. 1I/'Oumuamua has other characteristics never seen before in a celestial body and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-09 Adam Hibberd , Andreas M. Hein

1I/`Oumuamua is the first of likely many small bodies of extrasolar origin to be found in the solar system. These interstellar objects (ISOs) are hypothesized to have formed in extrasolar planetary systems prior to being ejected into…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-04 Qicheng Zhang

`Oumuamua (I1 2017) was the first macroscopic ($l\sim100\,{\rm m}$) body observed to traverse the inner solar system on an unbound hyperbolic orbit. Its light curve displayed strong periodic variation, and it showed no hint of a coma or…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-17 Darryl Seligman , Gregory Laughlin

The first interstellar object 'Oumuamua is discovered in 2017. When 'Oumuamua travels in interstellar space, it keeps colliding with interstellar medium (ISM). Given a sufficiently long interaction time, its rotation state may change…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-19 Wen Han Zhou

We present observations of the interstellar interloper 1I/2017 U1 ('Oumuamua) taken during its 2017 October flyby of Earth. The optical colors B-V = 0.70$\pm$0.06, V-R = 0.45$\pm$0.05, overlap those of the D-type Jovian Trojan asteroids and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-13 David Jewitt , Jane Luu , Jayadev Rajagopal , Ralf Kotulla , Susan Ridgway , Wilson Liu , Thomas Augusteijn

The stellar kinematics of the Galactic disk are main factors for constraining disk formation and evolution processes in the Milky Way (MW) Galaxy. In this paper we investigate a statistical relation between stellar Mass, Age and Velocity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-15 Hossein Fatheddin , Sedighe Sajadian

In October 2017, the first interstellar object within our solar system was discovered. Today designated 1I/'Oumuamua, it shows characteristics that have never before been observed in a celestial body. Due to these characteristics, an…

Space Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Adam Hibberd , Andreas M. Hein , T. Marshall Eubanks

The discovery of 1I/2017 U1 ('Oumuamua) has provided the first glimpse of a planetesimal born in another planetary system. This interloper exhibits a variable colour within a range that is broadly consistent with local small bodies such as…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-15 Wesley C. Fraser , Petr Pravec , Alan Fitzsimmons , Pedro Lacerda , Michele T. Bannister , Colin Snodgrass , Igor Smoli'c

We have observed and spatially resolved a set of seven A-type stars in the nearby Ursa Major moving group with the Classic, CLIMB, and PAVO beam combiners on the CHARA Array. At least four of these stars have large rotational velocities ($v…