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Astro2020 Science White Paper: High Angular Resolution Astrophysics - Fundamental Stellar Parameters

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2019-03-19 v1

Abstract

Direct determination of fundamental stellar parameters has many profound and wide-ranging impacts throughout astrophysics. These determinations are rooted in high angular resolution observations. In particular, as long-baseline optical interferometry has matured over the past decade, increasingly large survey samples are serving to empirically ground the basic parameters of these building blocks of the universe. True imaging and improved parametric fitting are becoming routinely available, an essential component of fully characterizing stars, stellar environments, and planets these stars may host.

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@article{arxiv.1903.06750,
  title  = {Astro2020 Science White Paper: High Angular Resolution Astrophysics - Fundamental Stellar Parameters},
  author = {Gerard van Belle and Ellyn Baines and Tabetha Boyajian and Doug Gies and Jeremy Jones and John Monnier and Ryan Norris and Rachael Roettenbacher and Theo ten Brummelaar and Kaspar von Braun and Russel White},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.06750},
  year   = {2019}
}

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5 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Astro2020 Science White Paper call

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