Rossiter-McLaughlin effects

A form of Rossiter-McLaughlin effect — 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

noun
  1. pluralplural of Rossiter-McLaughlin effect
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