Rossiter-McLaughlin effect

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Etymology[edit]

Named after Richard Alfred Rossiter and Dean Benjamin McLaughlin.

Noun[edit]

Rossiter-McLaughlin effect (plural Rossiter-McLaughlin effects)

  1. (astronomy) 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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