The Sun's shape and brightness

Nature

Volumn 392, Issue 6672, 1998, Pages 155-157

  Kuhn, J R ^a,b   Bush, R I ^c   Scheick, X ^d   Scherrer, P ^c  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SOLAR OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Jackson Community College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRIGHTNESS; LUMINANCE; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUN; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0032510537     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/32361     Document Type: Article

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