Aberration of starlight experiment

2013/07/27 by Robert A. Woodruff, Woodruff, Robert A.
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) #Optics (physics.optics) #astro-ph.IM #physics.optics

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1307.7300

arxiv created 2013/07/27 · arxiv updated 2013/07/30

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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