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Aberration of starlight experiment

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2013-07-30 v1 Optics

Abstract

We propose an experiment using a conventional optical telescope to determine whether aberration of starlight results from special relativistic effects external to a measurement sensor or from optical effects within a sensor. The proposed measurements would discriminate between the two starlight aberration models in an Earth-based experiment. In addition, the measurements would yield an independent experimental test of relativistic time dilation.

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@article{arxiv.1307.7300,
  title  = {Aberration of starlight experiment},
  author = {Robert A. Woodruff},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.7300},
  year   = {2013}
}
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