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A Changing Solar Shape

  • Authors: M. Emilio, R. I. Bush, J. Kuhn, and P. Scherrer

Emilio et al. 2007 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 660 L161.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Fig. 2.

Limb shape from 1997 and 2001 is plotted here. The equator corresponds to position angle 0. Data have been averaged into 10° wide bins, and the best‐fit ﹩l=2﹩ (oblateness) and ﹩l=4﹩ (hexadecapole) Legendre polynomial have been plotted. The shape distortion after correcting for bright contamination is nearly a pure oblateness term in 2001, while 1997 has a significant hexadecapolar shape contribution.

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