NDLI: Monitoring the Solar Radius from the Royal Observatory of the Spanish Navy since 1773

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Author	Vaquero, J. M. Gallego, M. C. Ruiz Lorenzo, J. J. López Moratalla, T. Carrasco, V. M. S. Aparicio, A. J. P. González González, F. J. Hernández García, E.
Copyright Year	2016
Abstract	The solar diameter has been monitored at the Royal Observatory of the Spanish Navy (today the Real Instituto y Observatorio de la Armada: ROA) almost continuously since its creation in 1753 (i.e. during the past 250 years). After a painstaking effort to collect data in the historical archive of this institution, we present here the data of the solar semidiameter from 1773 to 2006, making up an extensive new database for solar-radius measurements, which can be considered. We have calculated the solar semidiameter from the transit times registered by the observers (except for values of the solar radius from the modern Danjon astrolabe, which were published by ROA). These data were analysed to reveal any significant long-term trends, but no such trends were found. Therefore, the data sample confirms the constancy of the solar diameter during the past 250 years (approximately) within instrumental and methodological limits. Moreover, no relationship between solar radius and the new sunspot-number index has been found from measurements of the ROA. Finally, the mean value for the solar semidiameter (with one standard deviation) calculated from the observations made in the ROA (1773 – 2006), after applying corrections for refraction and diffraction, is equal to $958.87^{\prime\prime}\pm1.77^{\prime\prime}$ .
Starting Page	1599
Ending Page	1612
Page Count	14
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00380938
Journal	Solar Physics
Volume Number	291
Issue Number	6
e-ISSN	1573093X
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2016-07-27
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Sun Solar observations Solar radius Astrophysics and Astroparticles Atmospheric Sciences Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Astronomy and Astrophysics Space and Planetary Science

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