3 papers
astro-ph.EP2026
Prospects for Panspermia via Interstellar Objects like 3I/ATLAS
Shokhruz Kakharov, Abraham Loeb
We study the feasibility of natural and directed panspermia via interstellar objects (ISOs) like 3I/ATLAS. The paper is organized around two questions. First, could natural pansper…
hep-ph2025
Flux of Extragalactic Dark Matter in Direct Detection Experiments
Shokhruz Kakharov, Abraham Loeb
We calculate the contribution of extragalactic dark matter to the local dark matter density and flux in the Milky Way. By analyzing the Galactic escape velocity as a function of di…
astro-ph.GA2025
Galactic Trajectories of Interstellar Objects 1I/'Oumuamua, 2I/Borisov, and 3I/Atlas
Shokhruz Kakharov, Abraham Loeb
The first interstellar objects, 1I/`Oumuamua, 2I/Borisov and 3I/ATLAS, were discovered over the past decade. We follow the trajectories of known interstellar objects in the gravita…