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Analyses on Christoph Clavius’s Reports of Total Solar Eclipses in 1560 and 1567: Key References for the Centennial Variations of the Earth’s Rotation Speed and the Solar Radius

  • Authors: Hisashi Hayakawa, Mitsuru Sôma, Jean-Pierre Rozelot, Koji Murata, Alexei A. Pevtsov, Stanislav Gunár, Lucie M. Green

Hisashi Hayakawa et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1011 .

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Lunar limb profile (black curves) in comparison with the solar limb profile (red circles) under boundary ΔT values: (left) 140 s and (right) 151 s, when the R⊙ is set to Auwers's canonical value (696,000 km). The position angles are measured from the direction of the celestial north, in contrast with SJM97, who may have obtained the position angle from the lunar rotation axis. The lunar topography data are derived from the KAGUYA mission (A+09), following S+12’s method. The lunar limb profile is emphasized by a factor of ≈50 for visual presentation (see also H+26a).

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