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Rossiter-McLaughlin effect en · NOUN

Etymology

Named after Richard Alfred Rossiter and Dean Benjamin McLaughlin.

Meanings

  1. A spectroscopic phenomenon observed when an object moves across the face of a rotating star which is seen to undergo a redshift anomaly caused by the obscuration of different parts of its disk.

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wikipedia: Dean Benjamin McLaughlin · wikipedia: Richard Alfred Rossiter