The Deflection of Light in the Sun's Gravitational Field

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May 1932

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Science, Volume 75, Issue 1951, pp. 538-540

Physics

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The scale determination for the 28-foot camera, on which the published result of the Potsdam expedition is based, is unsatisfactory and should be rejected. A new reduction of the Potsdam measures, in which the scale correction is determined from the star observations, yields a result of E = 1. double prime 75 +- 0. double prime 13 for the light deflection at the sun's limb, and considerably reduces the residuals of the observations. The objections of the Potsdam observers against the reduction of the 1922 observations are not valid, and there is no reason to change the results published by the Lick observers. The various measures of light deflection at the sun's edge thus far available are listed in the following table; their weighted mean is 1. double prime 79+-. double prime 06.

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