The Eddington's Eclispe and a Possible Replica of the Experiment of Light Bending
Abstract
The success of the first measurement of the light bending by the solar gravitational field is due to the particular stellar field during the Eddington's 1919 total eclipse of the Sun, near the Hyades, giving the opportunity to measure the gravitational bending of the light to the astronomers in two expeditions in Brazil, Sobral, and on the Principe Island in the Atlantic Ocean. The geometrical properties of this field and another field in Leo are discussed in view of repeating this experiment of General Relativity with SOHO satellite data in the context of the International Year of Light 2015.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- July 2015
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.1507.03879
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1507.03879
- Bibcode:
- 2015arXiv150703879S
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics;
- Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 4 pages, 7 color figures, presented at the XIV Marcel Grossmann meeting on General Relativity, in Rome, Sapienza University on July 13, 2015 in HR1 parallel session