Solar Interior: Solar Diameter, Oblateness and Temperature

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 2245. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Sun, Solar Interior

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The visible edge of the Sun is called the LIMB and is almost circular, but very small deviations from a spherical Sun are measurable. The largest deviation is a `flattening' of the polar radius in comparison to the equatorial solar radius. The Sun's surface temperature is also not spherically symmetric but has a tiny asphericity in the form of a latitudinal temperature variation. The radius, sha...

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