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<ri:Resource created="2014-07-04T09:26:32Z" status="active" updated="2025-06-13T15:25:00Z" version="1.2" xmlns:ri="http://www.ivoa.net/xml/RegistryInterface/v1.0" xmlns:vr="http://www.ivoa.net/xml/VOResource/v1.0" xmlns:vs="http://www.ivoa.net/xml/VODataService/v1.1" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.ivoa.net/xml/VOResource/v1.0 http://vo.ari.uni-heidelberg.de/docs/schemata/VOResource.xsd http://www.ivoa.net/xml/VODataService/v1.1 http://vo.ari.uni-heidelberg.de/docs/schemata/VODataService.xsd" xsi:type="vs:CatalogService"><title>Limb-darkening coefficients for MOST</title><shortName>J/A+A/567/A3</shortName><identifier>ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/567/A3</identifier><altIdentifier>doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.35670003</altIdentifier><curation><publisher ivo-id="ivo://CDS">CDS</publisher><creator><name>Claret A.</name></creator><creator><name>Dragomir D.</name></creator><creator><name>Matthews J.M.</name></creator><date role="Updated">2017-07-12T15:33:22Z</date><date role="Created">2014-07-04T09:26:32Z</date><contact><name>CDS support team</name><address>CDS, Observatoire de Strasbourg, 11 rue de l'Universite, F-67000 Strasbourg, France</address><email>cds-question@unistra.fr</email></contact></curation><content><subject>astronomical-models</subject><subject>stellar-atmospheres</subject><subject>infrared-photometry</subject><subject>visible-astronomy</subject><subject>sloan-photometry</subject><subject>medium-band-photometry</subject><subject>Wide-band photometry</subject><description>We present new calculations of limb and gravity-darkening coefficients to be used as input in many fields of stellar physics such as synthetic light curves of double-lined eclipsing binaries and planetary transits, studies of stellar diameters or line profiles in rotating stars. We compute the limb-darkening coefficients specifically for the photometric system of the satellite MOST (Microvariability and Oscillations in STars). All computations were performed by adopting the least-square method, but for completeness we also performed calculations for the linear and bi-parametric approaches by adopting the flux conservation method. The passband gravity-darkening coefficients y({lambda}) were computed by adopting a more general differential equation, which also takes the effects of convection into account. We used two stellar atmosphere models: ATLAS (plane-parallel) and PHOENIX (spherical and quasi-spherical). We adopted six laws to describe the specific intensity distribution: linear, quadratic, square root, logarithmic, exponential, and a more general one with four terms. 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