Fig. 1

Projection of the stellar sphere with its respective limb darkening, the location of the spot, and the transit cord on the two-dimensional grid in Cartesian coordinates. The colorbar on the right hand side indicates the intensity of the stellar flux. Stellar activity features on the stellar sphere are assumed to be homogeneous and circular.
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