Resolving the effects of rotation in early type stars

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5491, Issue PART 1, 2004, Pages 65-72

  Peterson, Deane M ^a   Hummel, Christian A ^b   Pauls, Thomas ^c   Armstrong, Thomas ^c   Benson, James ^d   Gilbreath, Charmaine ^c   Hindsley, Robert ^c   Hutter, Donald ^d   Mozurkewich, David ^e  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^c NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d FLAGSTAFF STATION   (United States)

^e Seabrook Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Gravity darkening; Interferometry; Rotation; Stars

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ANGLE MEASUREMENT; APPROXIMATION THEORY; GRAVITATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFRARED RADIATION; INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY; OBSERVATORIES; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PHASE MEASUREMENT; ROTATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VISIBILITY;

ANGULAR VELOCITY; CENTRO-SYMMETRIC LIMB-DARKENED MODEL; GRAVITY DARKENING; STARS;

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 11144303044     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.552020     Document Type: Conference Paper

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