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A Simple Code for Rotational Broadening of Broad Wavelength Range High-Dispersion Spectra

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2023-05-18 v1 Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Abstract

In high dispersion spectra of rotating bodies such as stars and planets, the rotation contributes significantly to, and sometimes dominates, the line broadening. We present a simple method for rotationally broadening large wavelength ranges of high-dispersion spectra. The broadening is rapid and scales linearly with the length of the spectrum array. For large wavelength ranges, the method is much faster than the popular convolution-based broadening. We provide the code implementation of this method in a publicly accessible repository.

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@article{arxiv.2305.09693,
  title  = {A Simple Code for Rotational Broadening of Broad Wavelength Range High-Dispersion Spectra},
  author = {Adolfo S. Carvalho and Christopher M. Johns-Krull},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.09693},
  year   = {2023}
}

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2 pages, 1 figure, published in RNAAS