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On the correct use of gravity darkening coefficients in the JKTEBOP eclipsing binary code

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2021-11-03 v1

Abstract

Users of the JKTEBOP code to solve the light curves of eclipsing binaries often confuse the gravity darkening coefficients, y(λ)y(\lambda), with the bolometric gravity darkening exponents, β\beta. JKTEBOP requires the wavelength-dependent coefficients. I show that the numerical values of y(λ)y(\lambda) and β\beta can be rather different, leading to potential biases in the solution if the wrong quantities are used.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2111.01142,
  title  = {On the correct use of gravity darkening coefficients in the JKTEBOP eclipsing binary code},
  author = {Guillermo Torres},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.01142},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

To appear in RNAAS, 2 pages including 1 figure

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