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Empirical H- and K-band Limb Darkening for 31 CHARA Stars: A Near-infrared Benchmark for Stellar-Atmosphere Models

  • Authors: Narsireddy Anugu, John D. Monnier, Antoine Mérand, Becky Flores, Alexandre Gallenne, Douglas R. Gies, Mayra Gutierrez, Robert Klement, Stefan Kraus, Jayadev Rajagopal, Rachael M. Roettenbacher, Gail H. Schaefer

Narsireddy Anugu et al 2026 The Astronomical Journal 172 .

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Caption: Figure B1.

Checks on the fitted power-law coefficients. Left: fitted H- and K-band coefficients, αH and αK, plotted against the fitted power-law angular diameter, θPL. Right: the same coefficients plotted against the fitted visibility scale factor, shown as ﹩{V}_{0}^{2}-1﹩. In both panels, the H-band coefficients are systematically larger than the K-band coefficients, consistent with stronger limb darkening at shorter wavelengths. No strong monotonic dependence of αH and αK on either θPL or ﹩{V}_{0}^{2}﹩ is evident over the sample, indicating that the measured limb-darkening coefficients are not primarily driven by the overall angular scale or by the visibility normalization term.

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