Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Sep 1971
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1971natur.233..186s&link_type=abstract
Nature, Volume 233, Issue 5316, pp. 186-187 (1971).
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
DICKE1, although not the first to do so, has proposed that the deep interior of the Sun rotates faster than the visible exterior (see also Roxburgh2, Sakurai3). One result is that the departure of the mass distribution from spherical symmetry would, through its quadrupole moment, cause a contribution to the advance of the perihelion of the planet Mercury, on the basis of Newtonian mechanics, which represents a sufficiently good approximation for this purpose. Unless the fast interior rotation and corresponding interior mass distribution is known and correct allowances made, no precise check of the success of general relativity theory can be made on the basis of the astronomically observed perihelion advance. The main question is whether some such situation concerning the interior rotation can be established, or at least made plausible.
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