Solar Oblateness and Fluid Spin-Down
Abstract
An experiment performed on a differentially rotating, density-stratified fluid shows that "spin-down" need not occur under the condition of stratification. Inasmuch as density stratification occurs in the interior of the sun, spin-down probably does not exist in the solar interior, and the observed solar oblateness may indicate that the sun contains a rapidly spinning core.
- Publication:
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Science
- Pub Date:
- December 1967
- DOI:
- 10.1126/science.158.3808.1562
- Bibcode:
- 1967Sci...158.1562M