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Variation of the diameter of the Sun as measured by the Solar Disk Sextant (SDS)

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The balloon-borne Solar Disk Sextant (SDS) experiment has measured the angular size of the Sun on seven occasions spanning the years 1992 to 2011. The solar half-diameter -- observed in a 100-nm wide passband centred at 615 nm -- is found to vary over that period by up to 200 mas, while the typical estimated uncertainty of each measure is 20 mas. The diameter variation is not in phase with the solar activity cycle; thus, the measured diameter variation cannot be explained as an observational artefact of surface activity. Other possible instrument-related explanations for the observed variation are considered but found unlikely, leading us to conclude that the variation is real. The SDS is described here in detail, as is the complete analysis procedure necessary to calibrate the instrument and allow comparison of diameter measures across decades.
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hal-00864316 , version 1 (14-12-2020)

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S. Sofia, T. M. Girard, U. J. Sofia, L. Twigg, W. Heaps, et al.. Variation of the diameter of the Sun as measured by the Solar Disk Sextant (SDS). Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2013, 436, pp.2151-2169. ⟨10.1093/mnras/stt1721⟩. ⟨hal-00864316⟩
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