Limb-darkening coefficients for MOST Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Claret A.
  2. Dragomir D.
  3. Matthews J.M.
  4. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

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. The covered ranges of T_eff_, log g, metallicities, and microturbulent velocities are [1500-50000K, 0-5.5,-5.0-1.0, 0-8km/s], respectively.

Keywords
  1. astronomical-models
  2. stellar-atmospheres
  3. infrared-photometry
  4. visible-astronomy
  5. sloan-photometry
  6. medium-band-photometry
  7. Wide-band photometry
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2014A&A...567A...3C
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doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.35670003

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History

2014-07-04T09:26:32Z
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2014-07-04T09:26:32Z
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