Describing the requirements of a rendezvous mission with an interstellar visitor

Describing the requirements of a rendezvous mission with an interstellar visitor

LSST detection rate and intercept ∆v as a function of interstellar object size or dwell time. The dark regions correspond to q = 3.6 ± 0.5 and the light regions signify the 95% Poisson confidence intervals for the light regions. The gray dotted line corresponds to an ‘Oumuamua-like object, and the graph shows the results …

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