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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 5120. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Sun, Basic Solar Properties

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The variation with latitude of the angular rotation rate of the Sun. From studies of the motion of sunspots across the solar disk, carried out between 1853 and 1861, English astronomer Richard Carrington (1826-75) showed that the angular rotation rate of the solar surface decreases, and the rotation period increases, with increasing latitude north or south of the solar equator. Although sunspots ...

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