Stellar Aberration
| Scientific Paper | |
|---|---|
| Title | Stellar Aberration |
| Read in full | Link to paper |
| Author(s) | Charles Kenneth Thornhill |
| Keywords | stellar aberration, relative velocity of Earth and star, Earth's orbital velocity |
| Published | 2006 |
| No. of pages | 7 |
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Abstract
Stokes (1845) supposed the the Earth drags the local ether along with it, forming what is now recognized as a viscous boundary layer, and solved the problem of stellar aberration by determining how a light wave from a star changes as it crosses this ethereal boundary layer...