On the sun's absolute disk-center and mean disk intensities, its limb darkening, and its `limb temperature' (λλ330 to 1099 nm)

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Feb 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003soph..212..239n&link_type=abstract

Solar Physics, v. 212, Issue 2, p. 239-250 (2003).

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The coefficients A0 of the limb-darkening functions I(μ)/Icenter=P5(μ)=ΣAiμi (i=0,...5, μ=cosθ), published by Neckel and Labs (1994), and the corresponding disk-center intensities Icenter=I(μ=1), which were taken from the absolutely calibrated Kitt Peak FTS Atlas of the disk center (Brault et al., see Neckel and Labs, 1984, and Neckel 1999), are used to derive `limb intensities' Ilimb=I(μ=0)=A0Icenter. The corresponding `limb temperatures' Tlimb vary only slightly with wavelength; the mean value (~=4750 K) and the wavelength of maximum intensity (~=605 nm) conform to Wien's law (λmaxT=0.288 cm K). Further, Tlimb agrees closely with that temperature, which follows from Avrett's (2000) model of the photosphere for τ500~=0.006 for this layer the optical thickness along the line of sight is close to 1 (`the limb'; compare Unsöld, 1968). The slight variation of Tlimb with wavelength is presumably due to systematic errors in the Neckel and Labs intensity data: it corresponds almost precisely to the differences between their data and the more recent ones provided by, e.g., Burlov-Vasiljev, Gurtovenko, and Matvejev (1995), and Burlov-Vasiljev, Matvejev, and Vasiljeva (1998). Two simple correction functions (for λ<=550 nm and λ>=550 nm) are proposed, which apply to all Neckel and Labs intensity data (disk center and full disk, line spectrum and (quasi) continuum), and to the absolutely calibrated Kitt-Peak FTS Atlas (spectra of disk center and full disk) as well.

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