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Stellar Aberration

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Scientific Paper
TitleStellar Aberration
Author(s)Charles Kenneth Thornhill
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Published2006
JournalNone
No. of pages7

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...