Magnetic origin of the discrepancy between stellar limb-darkening models and observations

Stars appear darker at their limbs than at their disk centres because at the limb we are viewing the higher and cooler layers of stellar photospheres. Yet, limb darkening derived from state-of-the-art stellar atmosphere models systematically fails to reproduce recent transiting exoplanet light curve...

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Hauptverfasser: Kostogryz, Nadiia M. (VerfasserIn) , Shapiro, Alexander I. (VerfasserIn) , Witzke, Veronika (VerfasserIn) , Cameron, Robert H. (VerfasserIn) , Gizon, Laurent (VerfasserIn) , Krivova, Natalie A. (VerfasserIn) , Ludwig, Hans-Günter (VerfasserIn) , Maxted, Pierre F. L. (VerfasserIn) , Seager, Sara (VerfasserIn) , Solanki, Sami K. (VerfasserIn) , Valenti, Jeff (VerfasserIn)
Dokumenttyp: Article (Journal)
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 12 April 2024
In: Nature astronomy
Year: 2024, Jahrgang: 8, Heft: 7, Pages: 929-937
ISSN:2397-3366
DOI:10.1038/s41550-024-02252-5
Online-Zugang:Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-024-02252-5
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Verfasserangaben:Nadiia M. Kostogryz, Alexander I. Shapiro, Veronika Witzke, Robert H. Cameron, Laurent Gizon, Natalie A. Krivova, Hans-G. Ludwig, Pierre F.L. Maxted, Sara Seager, Sami K. Solanki & Jeff Valenti

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