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'Oumuamua, the first bona-fide interstellar planetesimal, was discovered passing through our Solar System on a hyperbolic orbit. This object was likely dynamically ejected from an extrasolar planetary system after a series of close…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 Sean N. Raymond , Philip J. Armitage , Dimitri Veras , Elisa V. Quintana , Thomas Barclay

1I/'Oumuamua is the first interstellar interloper to be detected, and it shows a non-gravitational acceleration that cannot be accounted for by outgassing, given the strict upper limits of outgassing evident from {\it Spitzer} observations,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-24 Amaya Moro-Martín

The discovery of 'Oumuamua (1I/2017 U1), the first interstellar interloper, suggests an abundance of free-floating small bodies whose ejection into galactic space cannot be explained by the current population of confirmed exoplanets.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-16 Malena Rice , Gregory Laughlin

The first interstellar object to be observed in our solar system 1I/2017 U1 'Oumuamua combines the lack of observable cometary activity with an extra-gravitational acceleration. This has given rise to several mutually exclusive explanations…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Eirik Grude Flekkøy , Joachim Brodin

1I/'Oumuamua is the first detected interstellar interloper. We test the hypothesis that it is representative of a background population of exo-Oort cloud objects ejected under the effect of post-main sequence mass loss and stellar…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-13 Amaya Moro-Martín

The recent observation of interstellar objects, 1I/Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov cross the solar system opened new opportunities for planetary science and planetary defense. As the first confirmed objects originating outside of the solar system,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-05 Ravi teja Nallapu , Yinan Xu , Abraham Marquez , Tristan Schuler , Jekan Thangavelautham

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 light curve. Building upon Mashchenko (2019),…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-04 Aster G. Taylor , Darryl Z. Seligman , Olivier R. Hainaut , Karen J. Meech

The first detected interstellar object 'Oumuamua that passed within 0.25au of the Sun on 2017 September 9 was presumably ejected from a stellar system. We use its newly determined non-Keplerian trajectory together with the reconstructed…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-14 C. A. L. Bailer-Jones , D. Farnocchia , K. J. Meech , R. Brasser , M. Micheli , S. Chakrabarti , M. W. Buie , O. R. Hainaut

Schneider (2018) explored the possibility that 'Oumuamua is a Solar System object, and concluded that if it is, it must have been scattered by "another, yet unknown planet." I provide an extremely conservative upper limit on post-scattering…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-19 Jason T. Wright

The first discovered interstellar object (ISO), `Oumuamua (1I/2017 U1) shows a dry and rocky surface, an unusually elongated short-to-long axis ratio $c/a \lesssim 1/6$, a low velocity relative to the local standard of rest ($\sim 10$ km…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-16 Yun Zhang , Douglas N. C. Lin

The first definite interstellar object observed in our solar system was discovered in October of 2017 and was subsequently designated 1I/'Oumuamua. In addition to its extrasolar origin, observations and analysis of this object indicate some…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 Adam Hibberd , Andreas M. Hein

The recent discovery of the third interstellar object (3I/ATLAS) expands the known census from two to three and significantly improves statistical inferences regarding the underlying galactic population. In this paper, we argue that…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-08 Aster G. Taylor , Darryl Z. Seligman

We provide a calculation of Pan-STARRS' ability to detect objects similar to the interstellar object 1I/2017 U1 (hereafter 'Oumuamua), including the most detectable approach vectors and the effect of object size on detection efficiency.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-08 Aaron Do , Michael A. Tucker , John Tonry

The first interstellar object, 1I/2017 U1 (`Oumuamua), exhibited several unique properties, including an extreme aspect ratio, a lack of typical cometary volatiles, and a deviation from a Keplerian trajectory. Several authors have…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-20 Darryl Seligman , W. Garrett Levine , Samuel H. C. Cabot , Gregory Laughlin , Karen Meech

`Oumuamua, the first detected interstellar visitor to the solar system, exhibits non-gravitational acceleration in its trajectory. Ruling out other means of propulsion, such as the evaporation of material via a cometary tail, it has been…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-09 S. J. Curran

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 size $\sim 100\;$ m. This was followed by the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-01 Amir Siraj , Abraham Loeb

The discovery of two interstellar objects passing through the Solar System, 1I/`Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov, implies that a galactic population exists with a spatial number density of order $\sim0.1$ au$^{-3}$. The forthcoming Rubin Observatory…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-27 Dušan Marčeta , Darryl Z. Seligman

The first interstellar object to be discovered, 1I/'Oumuamua, exhibited various unusual properties as it was tracked on its passage through the inner solar system in 2017/2018. In terms of the potential scientific return, a spacecraft…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-12 Adam Hibberd

The first interstellar object observed in our solar system, 1I/2017 U1 (`Oumuamua), exhibited a number of peculiar properties, including extreme elongation and acceleration excess. Recently, \cite{Seligman:2020vb} proposed that the object…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-26 Thiem Hoang , Abraham Loeb

We report on $g$, $r$ and $i$ band observations of the Interstellar Object 'Oumuamua (1I) taken on 2017 October 29 from 04:28 to 08:40 UTC by the Apache Point Observatory (APO) 3.5m telescope's ARCTIC camera. We find that 1I's colors are…