OFFSET
9,1
LINKS
A. Prsa et al., Nominal values for selected solar and planetary quantities: IAU 2015 resolution B3, The Astronomical Journal, Vol. 152, No. 2 (2016), 1-7.
Wikipedia, Solar radius
EXAMPLE
The nominal solar radius is defined as exactly 695700000 meters. This corresponds to the solar photospheric radius, where the Rosseland optical depth tau equals 2/3 (cf. Prsa et al., 2016).
CROSSREFS
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AUTHOR
Felix Fröhlich, Mar 31 2018
STATUS
approved
