Measurement of Solar Radius Changes
- 20 November 1981
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 214 (4523) , 907-909
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.214.4523.907
Abstract
Photoelectric solar radius measurements since 1974 at Mount Wilson show no change in the solar radius, with a limit of abouit 0.1 arc second (1 standard deviation), over the interval. The limit is set by residual systematic effects.Keywords
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