Photometric studies of heat flow at the photosphere
Technical Report
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OSTI ID:6435911
Continuum photometry is carried out and the results of comparing these observations with models of photospheric heat flow are described. The main results are: (1) a possible detection of weak bright rings around some spot penumbrae (2) no evidence is found for large scale photospheric brightness inhomogeneities exceeding 2-3 K which places tighter constraints on models of global scale convection (3) supergranular scale continuum structures observed across the photosphere appear mainly due to random clumping of granules (4) the one case observed of a sunspot emergence shows no thermal shadow exceeding 1.5 K rms one day prior to umbra appearance (5) network and faculae are found to show a small excess brightness even at mu 1, so detection of faculae at mu 1 by differential photometry indicates a gentler temperature gradient near tau 1 in the facular (relative to cell) atmosphere (6) the limb darkening study shows no significant global variations to within 0.1% rms.
- Research Organization:
- Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc., Cambridge, MA (USA)
- OSTI ID:
- 6435911
- Report Number(s):
- N-84-27641
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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