From: Amara Graps (amara@amara.com)
Date: Thu Jun 06 2002 - 02:06:25 MDT
>Anders Sandberg <asa@nada.kth.se>, Fri, 17 May 2002
>
>I wonder why everybody is so fond of making rigid shells? What's wrong
>with trillions of freely orbiting structures?
(Cleaning up my desk)
Telemachus J. Kalvourdis, "The effect of radiation pressure on the
particle dynamics in ring-type N-body Configurations" (2001),
Earth, Moon, and Planets 87, pg. 87-102.
Abstract:
The paper deals with a simple photo-gravitational model of N+1 bodies.
The motion of a small particle which subjects both the gravitational
attraction and the radiation pressure is investigated for a wide range
of values of the radiation parameters by mapping its equilibrium points
and periodic orbits. The results show that for these values, radiation
merely affects quantitatively the characteristics of the system, while
it leaves unaffected the stability of the particle periodic motions and
equilibria.
(Nice paper, showing equilibrium positions of the particle,
zero-velocity surfaces.)
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