Astrophysics III: The Solar System / Astrophysik III: Das Sonnensystem by S. Flügge
Language: English, German | Publisher: Springer | 1959 | ISBN: 3540024166 | 602 pages | PDF (scan) | 23,3 MB
Language: English, German | Publisher: Springer | 1959 | ISBN: 3540024166 | 602 pages | PDF (scan) | 23,3 MB
An empirical model of the photosphere rests on observations of: the solar constant—which fixes the temperature scale, limb darkening— from which the variation of temperature with depth throughout the atmosphere is determined, and the energy distribution— which, together with limb darkening, reveals the opacity at each depth and for each wavelength.