The Long History of the Rossiter-McLaughlin Effect and its Recent Applications
Abstract
In this talk I will review the Rossiter-McLaughlin (RM) effect; its history, how it manifests itself during stellar eclipses and planetary transits, and the increasingly important role its measurements play in guiding our understanding of the formation and evolution of close binary stars and exoplanet systems.
- Publication:
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From Interacting Binaries to Exoplanets: Essential Modeling Tools
- Pub Date:
- April 2012
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1109.1750
- Bibcode:
- 2012IAUS..282..379A
- Keywords:
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- techniques: spectroscopic;
- stars: rotation;
- planets and satellites: formation;
- Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics;
- Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- proceedings IAU symposium 282. six pages, two figures, typos corrected