Photon-Sail Equilibria In The Alpha Centauri System

No AccessEngineering NotesPhoton-Sail Equilibria in the Alpha Centauri SystemJeannette Heiligers, Frederic Schoutetens and Bernd DachwaldJeannette HeiligersDelft University of Technology, 2629 HS Delft, The Netherlands*Assistant Professor, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering; .Search for more papers by this author, Frederic SchoutetensDelft University of Technology, 2629 HS Delft, The Netherlands†Graduate Student, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering; .Search for more papers by this author and Bernd Dachwald https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8765-8339FH Aachen University of Applied Sciences, 52064 Aachen, Germany‡Professor; .Search for more papers by this authorPublished Online:8 Mar 2021https://doi.org/10.2514/1.G005446SectionsRead Now ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload citationTrack citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail About References [1] Kervella P. and Thévenin F., “A Family Portrait of the Alpha Centauri System,” European Southern Observatory (Release No. eso0307, Legacy ID PR 05/03), 2003, https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso0307/ [retrieved 5 June 2020]. 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