Poynting-Robertson Effect

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 5229. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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A net force acting on small particles which causes their orbits to decay, also known as Poynting-Robertson drag. When photons of light strike a dust particle in orbit around the Sun, they impinge not directly `side-on' but slightly on its leading side (the `forward' side in terms of its orbital motion). Their energy is absorbed, and subsequently re-radiated, but it is re-radiated isotropically—i...

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