The Sun’s Surface and Subsurface: Investigating Shape and Irradiance: 599 (Lecture Notes in Physics, 599) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3540441883 ISBN 13: 9783540441885

Publisher: Springer, 2003

Synopsis

Composed of a set of lectures and tutorial reviews, this book stems from a summer school devoted to the gravitational aspects of the sun and their geophysical consequences. Contribitions elaborate on the gravitational distortions of the sun which can be used to gain some knowledge of the sun's interior and surface phenomena but which also influences the sun's irradience and thus ultimately the earth's climate. Last but not least, it is shown that these small distortions constitute a formidable challenge to solar astrometry, and the final part of the book describes the observational difficulties in defining unequivocally the solar diameter.

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Composed of a set of lectures and tutorial reviews, this book stems from a summer school devoted to the gravitational aspects of the sun and their geophysical consequences. Contribitions elaborate on the gravitational distortions of the sun which can be used to gain some knowledge of the sun's interior and surface phenomena but which also influences the sun's irradience and thus ultimately the earth's climate. Last but not least, it is shown that these small distortions constitute a formidable challenge to solar astrometry, and the final part of the book describes the observational difficulties in defining unequivocally the solar diameter.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540441883
• ISBN 13: 9783540441885
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 238
• Editor: Rozelot Jean-Pierre