Aberration of Light from Binary Stars-a Paradox?

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Sep 1967

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1967amjph..35..817e&link_type=abstract

American Journal of Physics, Volume 35, Issue 9, pp. 817-819 (1967).

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It is widely believed that aberration, like the Doppler effect, depends on the relative velocity of source and observer. It is here shown that, if this were true, binary stars would mostly look widely separated and rapidly rotating. Not only is this not observed, but it would appear to conflict with Kepler's third law if it were. It is argued that aberration does not depend on the relative velocities of source and observer: it depends only on the change in velocity of the observer between the times when the two measurements from which the aberration is deduced are made. The misconception is due to a faulty customary interpretation of the correct standard treatment.

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