Processing Method Effects on Solar Diameter Measurements: Use of Data Gathered by the Solar Disk Sextant

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Feb 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008soph..247..225d&link_type=abstract

Solar Physics, Volume 247, Issue 2, pp.225-248

Physics

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Solar Diameter, Fftd, Sds, Wavelet Analysis

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To determine the apparent diameter of the Sun, it is first necessary to measure the shape of the intensity profile of the solar limb with an imaging optical system (hereafter denoted as a solar-limb profile). The inflection point of the limb profile is usually used as a reference for calculating the diameter. Because this point may be difficult to determine in the presence of noise, it is necessary to define an appropriate filtering process that eliminates noise while preserving the position of the inflection point. In this paper we study two filtering techniques, one based on the compact wavelet transform and the other on the finite Fourier transform definition, that meet these requirements. The application of these two techniques to data gathered by the Solar Disk Sextant experiment shows that the solar radius increased from 1992 to 1996 by about 197 mas. However, a previous analysis of the same data and our present analysis provide a difference in the measured radii of about 92 mas. We show that this difference is entirely traced to the filtering process.

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