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Modelling Stellar Rotation for Optical Long Baseline Interferometry
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 May 2016
Abstract
Optical long baseline interferometry is a technique sensitive to sky projected brightness distributions, constituting a powerful tool for the study of detailed stellar surface structures. Moreover, by combining high spectral and angular resolution we obtain a technique called differential interferometry that is also sensitive to mechanisms that induce chromatic signatures, such as stellar spots and large scale mass motions (e.g. rapid rotation, non-radial pulsations, shear currents produced by hydrodynamical instabilities). We present here a study of the signatures of stellar rotation on differential interferometry observables showing that they are very sensitive to differential rotation and stellar inclination.
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- Session 1 Observations of Rotating Stars
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