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The ultraviolet solar opacity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

Owen Gingerich*
Affiliation:
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A.

Abstract

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Ultraviolet solar observations are compared with predictions from a new solar model. From 3600 to 1700 Å there is heavy line blanketing; probably one or more major sources of opacity are missing from the theoretical calculation in this region.

Type
Part I: Stellar Fluxes
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1970 

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