Electromagnetic radiation and motion of a particle (Q1766790)

A short review of the papers on the known Poynting-Robertson effect is given (there are 35 references). The main subjects of most considerations were equations of particle motion. The equations of motion first have been constructed for a moving particle under the assumption that the thermal emission from a particle is isotropic and does exert a radiation pressure force on the particle in the particle frame of reference. Later the equations were generalized for a case when the radiation pressure on arbitrary shaped particles arising from an anisotropy of thermal emission is taken into consideration. And lastly, in the paper the equation of motion for an arbitrary shaped particle moving in radiation field taking into account the radiation pressure caused by an anisotropy of thermal emission of motion as well as scattering and absorption of light is derived.