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24th Australian Institute of Physics Congress

11–16 Dec 2022
Australia/Adelaide timezone
Co-locating with the 7th International Workshop of Specialty Optical Fibres and Their Applications (WSOF), the Australian and New Zealand Conference on Optics and Photonics (ANZCOP), and the Conference on Optoelectronlc and Microelectronic Materials and Devices (COMMAD)

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Poynting-Robertson stabilization of relativistic lightsails

16 Dec 2022, 10:00
15m
Room R2 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

Room R2

Adelaide Convention Centre
Talk (preferred) AIP: Solar Terrestrial and Space Physics AIP: Solar Terrestrial and Space Physics

Speaker

Rhys William Mackintosh

Description

We study the stability of laser driven light sails during acceleration by adapting the Poynting-Robertson Effect equations to generalised sail geometries, finding the existence of a passive damping force.

Primary author

Rhys William Mackintosh

Co-authors

Boris Timothy Alexis Kuhlmey (School of Physics, The University of Sydney) Jadon Yunzheng Lin Prof. Michael Wheatland (School of Physics, The University of Sydney)

Presentation materials

1000 Fri RB2 Mackintosh.pptx
AIP_2022_Poynting_Robertson.pdf
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