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most citedThe Natural History of 'Oumuamua

121 citations · 258 across the 4 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

astro-ph.EP2021

A molecular wind blows out of the Kuiper belt

Quentin Kral, J. E. Pringle, Aurélie Guilbert-Lepoutre +9

Gas has been detected in many exoplanetary systems (10 Myr), thought to be released in the destruction of volatile-rich planetesimals orbiting in exo-Kuiper belts. In this lette…

astro-ph.EP202016 cited

Interstellar comet 2I/Borisov as seen by MUSE: C, NH and red CN detections

Michele T. Bannister, Cyrielle Opitom, Alan Fitzsimmons +11

We report the clear detection of C and of abundant NH in the first prominently active interstellar comet, 2I/Borisov. We observed 2I on three nights in November 2019 at opt…

astro-ph.EP2019121 cited

The Natural History of 'Oumuamua

Oumuamua ISSI Team

The discovery of the first interstellar object passing through the Solar System, 1I/2017 U1 ('Oumuamua), provoked intense and continuing interest from the scientific community and…

astro-ph.EP2019

From Centaurs to comets - 40 years

Nuno Peixinho, Audrey Thirouin, Stephen C. Tegler +4

In 1977, while Apple II and Atari computers were being sold, a tiny dot was observed in an inconvenient orbit. The minor body 1977 UB, to be named (2060) Chiron, with an orbit betw…

astro-ph.EP2018

OSSOS: XV. No active Centaurs in the Outer Solar System Origins Survey

N. Cabral, A. Guilbert-Lepoutre, W. C. Fraser +10

Context. Centaurs are icy objects in transition between the transneptunian region and the inner solar system, orbiting the Sun in the giant planet region. Some Centaurs display com…

astro-ph.EP2018

OSSOS. VII. 800+ trans-Neptunian objects - the complete data release

Michele T. Bannister, Brett J. Gladman, J. J. Kavelaars +33

The Outer Solar System Origins Survey (OSSOS), a wide-field imaging program in 2013-2017 with the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, surveyed 155 deg of sky to depths of $m_r =…