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Rossiter-McLaughlin effect
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English
Etymology
Named after Richard Alfred Rossiter and Dean Benjamin McLaughlin.
Noun
en 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.
Further reading
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