Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-jn8rn Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-27T08:23:18.672Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Photometric Observations of the Occultations of Stars by the Moon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2016

Karl D. Rakos
Karl D. Rakos*
Affiliation:
University Observatory, Vienna, Austria

Extract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

The idea of finding the radius of a star from the distortion of the Fresnel pattern caused by diffraction at the edge of the Moon during an occultation, was first proposed by Williams in 1938. In subsequent years this idea was again taken up by a number of investigators: Whitford (1938, 1946,) Diercks and Hunger (1952), Evans et al. (1953), Cousins and Guelke (1953), Rakos (1964, 1967), Nather and Evans (1970). The greatest difficulty in carrying out such measures was the lack of a light detector of sufficiently high quantum efficiency and recording equipment of sufficiently short time constant. Modern advances in electronics have overcome these difficulties to such an extent that it now appears feasible to determine the apparent diameters of many stars with a minimum expenditure of observing time and equipment.

Type
III. Joint Discussions
Information
Highlights of Astronomy , Volume 2: Highlights of Astronomy. As presented at the XIVth General Assembly of the IAU, 1970 , 1971 , pp. 675 - 687
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1971

References

Cousins, A.W.J. and Guelke, R.: 1953, Monthly Notices Roy. Astron. Soc. 113, 776.Google Scholar
Diercks, H. and Hunger, K.: 1952, Z. Astrophys. 31, 182.Google Scholar
Evans, D. S. et al.: 1951, Monthly Notices Roy. Astron. Soc. 113, 64.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Evans, D. S. et al.: 1953, Monthly Notices Roy. Astron. Soc. 113, 781.Google Scholar
Fischer, R.: 1968, Appl. Opt. 7, 1079.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Nather, R. E. and Evans, D. S.: 1970, Astron. J. 75, 575.Google Scholar
Rakos, K. D.: 1964, Astron. J. 69, 556.Google Scholar
Rakos, K. D.: 1967, Acta Phys. Austriaca XXVI, 152.Google Scholar
Rakos, K. D.: 1967, Acta Phys. Austriaca XXVI, 290.Google Scholar
Whitford, A. E.: 1939, Astrophys. J. 89, 472.Google Scholar
Whitford, A. E.: 1946, Sky Telesc. 6, 7.Google Scholar
Williams, J. D.: 1939, Astrophys. 89, 467.Google Scholar