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31 citations · 55 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

astro-ph.SR2018

An Explanation of the Vaughan - Preston Gap

Peter Foukal

A plot of the calcium emission versus color of late type stars exhibits a reduced population or gap at intermediate activity, somewhat higher than that of the Sun. We suggest that…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 1 cited

Reddened Dimming of Boyajian's Star Supports Internal Storage of Its "Missing" Flux

Peter Foukal

Two recent short term dimmings of KIC 8462852 (Boyajian's Star) exhibit clear reddening in the B, r' and i' photometric passbands. We show that the intensity ratios of the three pa…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 12 cited

An explanation of the missing flux from Boyajian's mysterious star

Peter Foukal

A previously unremarked star in the constellation Cygnus has,in the past year,become known as the most mysterious star in our Galaxy.Boyajian's star exhibits puzzling episodes of s…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 6 cited

A study of solar photospheric temperature gradient variation using limb darkening measurements

Serena Criscuoli, Peter Foukal

The variation in area of quiet magnetic network measured over the sunspot cycle should modulate the spatially averaged photospheric temperature gradient, since temperature declines…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 5 cited

Dimming of the Mid-20th Century Sun

Peter Foukal

Advances in understanding of the white light faculae measured at the Royal Greenwich Observatory from 1874 to 1976 suggest that they offer a more direct measure of solar brightenin…

astro-ph.SR2011★ 31 cited

Dimming of the 17th Century Sun

Peter Foukal, Ada Ortiz, Roald Schnerr

Reconstructions of total solar irradiance (TSI) rely mainly on linear relations between TSI variation and indices of facular area. When these are extrapolated to the prolonged 15th…