Measurement of solar radius changes

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Nov 1981

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1981sci...214..907l&link_type=abstract

Science, vol. 214, Nov. 20, 1981, p. 907-909.

Physics

Optics

16

Astronomical Photometry, Solar Diameter, Atmospheric Effects, Calibrating, Error Analysis, Instrument Errors, Magnetic Signatures

Scientific paper

Results of daily photometric measurements of the solar radius from Mt. Wilson over the past seven years are reported. Reduction of the full disk magnetograms yields a formal error of 0.1 arcsec in the boustrophedonic scans in the 5250.2 A FeI line. 150 scan lines comprise each observation; 1,412 observations were made from 1974-1981. Measurement procedures, determination of the scattered light of the optics and the atmosphere, and error calculations are described, noting that days of poor atmospheric visibility are omitted from the data. The horizontal diameter of the sun remains visually fixed while the vertical component changes due to atmospheric diffraction; error accounting for thermal effects, telescope aberrations, and instrument calibration are discussed, and results, within instrument accuracy, indicate no change in the solar radius over the last seven years.

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