Rossiter-McLaughlin effect

English

Etymology

Named after Richard Alfred Rossiter and Dean Benjamin McLaughlin.

Noun

Rossiter-McLaughlin effect (plural Rossiter-McLaughlin effects)

1. (astronomy) 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.

Further reading

• Rossiter-McLaughlin effect on Wikipedia.Wikipedia