Solar Photosphere: Center-to-limb Variation
Abstract
Many phenomena which are observable on the Sun's `surface' change in characteristic ways between the center and LIMB of the apparent disk (e.g. the shapes of sunspots, the profiles of Fraunhofer lines, etc). The most obvious and easily noticeable (e.g. at sunrise or sunset, or on a good photograph) center-to-limb variation is the decrease of brightness from the disk center ...
- Publication:
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Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Pub Date:
- October 2001
- DOI:
- 10.1888/0333750888/2012
- Bibcode:
- 2001eaa..bookE2012N
- Keywords:
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- Sun;
- Solar Atmosphere