Origin of 1I/’Oumuamua. II. An Ejected Exo-Oort Cloud Object?
@article{MoroMartin2019OriginO1, title={Origin of 1I/’Oumuamua. II. An Ejected Exo-Oort Cloud Object?}, author={Amaya Moro-Mart'in}, journal={The Astronomical Journal}, year={2019}, volume={157} }
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 encounters. We do this by comparing the cumulative number density of interstellar objects inferred from the detection of 1I/’Oumuamua to that expected from these two clearing processes. We consider the 0.08–8 M⊙ mass range, take into account the dependencies with…
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