The Scattering Function Obtained from Partial Solar Eclipse
Abstract
The direct image of the sun was photographed at a partial solar eclipse, and from the moon's limb occulting the solar disk the profile of the scattering function was obtained. The profiles thus obtained do not fit a Gaussian. Near the core they look like a dispersion function, but in the wing they decrease faster than this. The working hypothesis of the preceding paper that the scattering function is the sum of two Gaussian profiles seemes to be a goed approximation.
- Publication:
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
- Pub Date:
- 1966
- Bibcode:
- 1966PASJ...18..345M