English Explanatory Dictionary

Rossiter-McLaughlin effect

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.

Word forms

Rossiter-McLaughlin effect Rossiter-McLaughlin effects

Etymology

Named after Richard Alfred Rossiter and Dean Benjamin McLaughlin.

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