| Issue |
A&A
Volume 664, August 2022
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| Article Number | A128 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | Stellar atmospheres | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202243827 | |
| Published online | 18 August 2022 | |
Power-2 limb-darkening coefficients for the uvby, UBVRIJHK, SDSS ugriz, Gaia, Kepler, and TESS photometric systems
I. ATLAS stellar atmosphere models★
1
Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, CSIC,
Apartado 3004,
18080
Granada, Spain
e-mail: claret@iaa.es
2
Dept. Física Teórica y del Cosmos, Universidad de Granada,
Campus de Fuentenueva s/n,
10871
Granada, Spain
3
Astrophysics Group, Keele University,
Staffordshire
ST5 5BG, UK
Received:
20
April
2022
Accepted:
3
June
2022
Context. Limb darkening is an important stellar phenomenon and must be accounted for in the study of stellar spectra, eclipsing binaries, transiting planetary systems, and microlensing events. The power-2 limb-darkening law provides a good match to the specific intensities predicted by stellar atmosphere models: it is better than other two-parameter laws and is only surpassed by the four-parameter law.
Aims. Predictions of the limb-darkening coefficients for the power-2 law are not widely available. We therefore compute them, using stellar atmosphere models generated by the ATLAS (plane-parallel) code.
Methods. Limb-darkening coefficients were computed for the space missions Gαiα, Kepler, and TESS as well as for the photometric systems uvby, UBVRIJHK, and SDSS ugriz. The calculations were performed by adopting the Levenberg–Marquardt least-squares minimisation method and were computed with a resolution of 100 equally spaced viewing angles. We used 9586 model atmospheres covering 19 metallicities, effective temperatures of 3500–50 000 K, log g values from 0.0 to 5.0, and microturbulent velocities of 0, 1, 2, 4, and 8 km s-1.
Results. We confirm the superiority of the power-2 law, in terms of the quality of the fits, over other two-parameter laws. This is particularly relevant for the quadratic law, which is widely used.
Conclusions. We recommend the use of the power-2 law in cases where a two-parameter law is needed.
Key words: binaries close / binaries: eclipsing / planetary systems / stars: atmospheres
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© A. Claret and J. Southworth 2022
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