Dicke and Golden berg's oblateness measurement may be explained by an equatorial temperature excess of 30 K, smoothly distributed in optical depths <0.01 The resulting brightness variation with solar latitude is concentrated close to the limb, and it is not possible, with data presently available, to distinguish such variation from true oblateness.
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Ingersoll et al. (1971) studied this question.