2 papers
astro-ph.EP2025
He awa whiria: the tidal streams of interstellar objects
John C. Forbes, Michele T. Bannister, Chris Lintott +5
Upcoming surveys are likely to discover a new sample of interstellar objects (ISOs) within the Solar System, but questions remain about the origin and distribution of this populati…
astro-ph.GA2025
Semi-analytic Orbits: A Practical Implementation of Lynden-Bell's Planar Orbits and Extension to Vertical Oscillations
John C. Forbes, Michele T. Bannister, Angus Forrest +2
We present a practical implementation of the perturbation theory derived by Lynden-Bell (2015) for describing, to arbitrary precision, the orbit of a particle in an arbitrary spher…