Rossiter-McLaughlin effect

noun

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.

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Meanings

nounRossiter-McLaughlin effect (plural Rossiter-McLaughlin effects)

plural Rossiter-McLaughlin effects

  1. astronomyA 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.

Origin

Named after Richard Alfred Rossiter and Dean Benjamin McLaughlin.

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Rossiter-McLaughlin effect. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Rossiter-McLaughlin%20effect

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