{"id":56,"date":"2013-09-02T13:08:53","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T17:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faculty.fiu.edu\/~vanhamme\/wordpress\/?page_id=56"},"modified":"2022-08-02T16:07:34","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T20:07:34","slug":"limb-darkening","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.fiu.edu\/~vanhamme\/limb-darkening\/","title":{"rendered":"Limb Darkening"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_61\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61\" style=\"width: 145px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.fiu.edu\/~vanhamme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/240px-Mercury_transit_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-61 \" title=\"Solar limb darkening\" src=\"https:\/\/faculty.fiu.edu\/~vanhamme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/240px-Mercury_transit_2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"240px-Mercury_transit_2\" width=\"145\" height=\"145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.fiu.edu\/~vanhamme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/240px-Mercury_transit_2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/faculty.fiu.edu\/~vanhamme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/240px-Mercury_transit_2.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 145px) 100vw, 145px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-61\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The limb darkened Sun, with the November 8, 2006, transit of the planet Mercury.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p align=\"left\">This page provides access to data files containing coefficients for various limb darkening approximations described in\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/adsabs.harvard.edu\/cgi-bin\/bib_query?1993AJ....106.2096V\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Van Hamme, 1993, AJ 106, 2096<\/a>. <\/em>Consult this paper for\u00a0types of coefficients (monochromatic, bandpass-specific) and table format.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The coefficients are based on the stellar atmosphere models of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kurucz.harvard.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Kurucz<\/a>, as posted on his website (reference date March 2012). The Kurucz models span 19 chemical compositions ([M\/H] from -5.0 to +1.0), indicated in the file names using Kurucz&#8217;s convention.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The limb-darkening files contain bandpass-integrated coefficients for 95 bands and include band names. References for response curves are in Table 2 of the &#8220;<em>Computing Binary Star Observables&#8221;<\/em> booklet available <a title=\"LC-DC Documentation\" href=\"https:\/\/faculty.fiu.edu\/~vanhamme\/wdfiles\/ebdoc2016-bf.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">A simple interpolation program written in FORTRAN can be downloaded by clicking\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.fiu.edu\/~vanhamme\/ldfiles\/ldinterpol.for\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. Please read the comment lines carefully before using this program.<\/p>\n<p>File requested by Slavek Rucinski: <a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.fiu.edu\/~vanhamme\/ldfiles\/limcof_rucinski_p00.dat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">limcof_rucinski_p00.dat<\/a><\/p>\n<p>All limcof_bp_*.dat files in one tar file: <a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.fiu.edu\/~vanhamme\/ldfiles\/limcoffiles2019.tar.gz\">limcoffiles2019.tar.gz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This page provides access to data files containing coefficients for various limb darkening approximations described in\u00a0Van Hamme, 1993, AJ 106, 2096. Consult this paper for\u00a0types of coefficients (monochromatic, bandpass-specific) and table format. The coefficients are based on the stellar atmosphere models of\u00a0Robert Kurucz, as posted on his website (reference date March 2012). The Kurucz models [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_mc_calendar":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-56","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.fiu.edu\/~vanhamme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.fiu.edu\/~vanhamme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.fiu.edu\/~vanhamme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.fiu.edu\/~vanhamme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.fiu.edu\/~vanhamme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.fiu.edu\/~vanhamme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":670,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.fiu.edu\/~vanhamme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56\/revisions\/670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.fiu.edu\/~vanhamme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}