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Old 01-April-2008, 09:03 AM
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Originally Posted by rtomes View Post
It is in fact the radiation content that I am actually most interested in. I would have thought that it should be known quite accurately from the temperature and density profile of the Sun at various depths.
It is, it's just not easy to find it summarized. Interior models of the Sun are very reliable, and can give you the total radiant energy and gas kinetic energy inside the Sun, I would think to 1% accuracy or so.
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