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The colours of the Sun

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

B. J. Taylor
B. J. Taylor*
Affiliation:
Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USA

Abstract

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In this paper, arguments are developed for treating (R–I)C as the most important colour to be derived for the Sun. The solar value of (R - I)C is then found to be 0.335 ± 0.002 mag. This result updates a counterpart given by Taylor in 1992.

Type
Stellar Flux Distributions
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 189: Fundamental Stellar Properties: The Interaction Between Observation and Theory , 1997 , pp. 83 - 88
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1997 

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