71 citations
2 papers
astro-ph.IM2017★ 41 cited
Deceleration of high-velocity interstellar photon sails into bound orbits at Centauri
René Heller, Michael Hippke
At a distance of about 4.22 lightyears, it would take about 100,000 years for humans to visit our closest stellar neighbor Proxima Centauri using modern chemical thrusters. New tec…
astro-ph.EP2015★ 71 cited
On the detection of Exomoons: A search in Kepler data for the orbital sampling effect and the scatter peak
Michael Hippke
Despite the discovery of thousands of exoplanets, no exomoons have been detected so far. We test a recently developed method for exomoon search, the orbital sampling effect (OSE),…