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by dvh 760 days ago
Really interesting paper, however:

>The Alpha Centauri system is ideal for testing quantised inertia since it is close to us and well-observed.

Yet they're using 1994 estimate for AB mass, have nobody measured alpha centaury AB mass since 1994?

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This 2003 paper shows a very close match based on ESO Paranal observations:

https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso0307/

and this paper from 2016 also has very close mass estimation (see table 1)

https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2016/10/aa29201-...