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, , with the bolometric gravity darkening exponents, . JKTEBOP requires the wavelength-dependent coefficients. I show that the numerical values of and 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