Photometric studies of heat flow at the photosphere

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Heat Transmission, Limb Darkening, Photometry, Photosphere, Solar Activity, Solar Limb, Stellar Models, Faculae, Solar Flux, Solar Oscillations, Solar Rotation, Sunspots, Temperature Gradients

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Continuum photometry is carried out and the results of comparing these observations with models of photospheric heat flow are described. The main results are: (1) a possible detection of weak bright rings around some spot penumbrae; (2) no evidence is found for large scale photospheric brightness inhomogeneities exceeding 2-3 K which places tighter constraints on models of global scale convection; (3) supergranular scale continuum structures observed across the photosphere appear mainly due to random clumping of granules; (4) the one case observed of a sunspot emergence shows no thermal shadow exceeding 1.5 K rms one day prior to umbra appearance; (5) network and faculae are found to show a small excess brightness even at mu = 1, so detection of faculae at mu = 1 by differential photometry indicates a gentler temperature gradient near tau = 1 in the facular (relative to cell) atmosphere; (6) the limb darkening study shows no significant global variations to within 0.1% rms.

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