The Sun's Surface and Subsurface
Subtitle: Investigating Shape and Irradiance (Lecture Notes in Physics)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: July 29, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9783540441885
Subjects: Astrophysics; The Sun; Science; Diameters; Science/Mathematics; Surface; Astronomy - General; Astrophysics & Space Science; Geophysics; Science / Astronomy; Science / Astrophysics & Space Science; Science-Astrophysics & Space Science; Science-Geophysics; helioseismology; solar astrometry; solar diameter; solar oscillation; solyr physics; Physics; Sun
First sentence: This book grew out of research on the size of the Sun and may be summarized in a single sentence: "How big is the Sun?".
Description: 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.