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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 9.

Angular diameters from the power-law fit compared with other laws. Panel (a) shows diameter from other fitting methods (θother) vs. θPL; the black dashed diagonal is the one-to-one relation θother = θPL. Panel (b) shows the fractional difference, (θother − θPL)/θPL, in percent. The colored solid curves in panel (b) are running-median trends for each law, computed from the same point sets shown in panel (a). Power–2 and quadratic diameters remain closest to θPL, typically within 0.5%. The quadratic law often gives higher χ2 when fewer than two visibility nulls are sampled, reflecting parameter degeneracy. Linear-law and uniform-disk diameters are smaller because they underrepresent or ignore limb-darkening curvature, with the largest uniform-disk offsets in H.

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