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Detecting Interstellar Objects Through Stellar Occultations

Amir Siraj, Abraham Loeb. arxiv.org. January 8, 2020.

Siraj and Loeb propose stellar occultations as a way to find conventional interstellar objects. An idealized all-sky forecast of about one annual event depends on population, size, noise and observing assumptions. Bound Kuiper-belt and Oort-cloud populations are ordinary alternatives, with overlapping timescales. Metadata, citation, figure, axis and model discrepancies remain unresolved. This supplied preprint reports forecasts rather than detections; work-level grant support does not establish government access.

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