Author： Stix Michael
Publisher： Springer Publishing Company
ISSN： 0038-0938
Source： Solar Physics, Vol.212, Iss.1, 2003-01, pp. : 3-6
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Abstract
It is pointed out that the time scale of energy transport in the Sun is the Kelvin–Helmholtz time scale, of order 3×107 years, roughly 100 times longer than the photon-diffusion time estimated by Mitalas and Sills (1992). The difference corresponds to a factor
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