On the determination of heliographic positions and rotation velocities of sunspots. II - Systematic effects caused by the Wilson depression

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Oct 1983

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Solar Physics (ISSN 0038-0938), vol. 88, Oct. 1983, p. 71-75.

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Angular Velocity, Position (Location), Spectroheliographs, Sunspots, Data Acquisition, Data Reduction, Error Analysis, Position Errors, Velocity Errors

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Using sunspot positions of small sunspots observed at Debrecen and Locarno as well as positions of recurrent sunspots taken from the Greenwich Photoheliographic Results (1940-1976) the influence of the Wilson depression on the rotation velocities was investigated. It was found that the Wilson depression can be determined by minimizing errors of the rotation velocities or minimizing the differences of rotation velocities determined from disk passages and central meridian passages. The Wilson depressions found were between 765 km and 2500 km for the first sample while they were between 0 km and several 1000 km for the second sample. The averaged Wilson depression for the second sample is between 500 km and 965 km depending on the reduction method. A dependence of the Wilson depression on the age of the spots investigated seems not to exist.

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