High-Precicison Limb-Darkening Measurement of a K3 Giant Using Microlensing

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2003-03-31

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0303638v1

Astrophys.J.596:1305-1319,2003

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Submitted to ApJ, 28 pages including 8 figures

Scientific paper

10.1086/378196

We obtain high-precision limb-darkening measurements in five bands (V, V_E, I_E, I, and H) for the K3 III (Teff=4200 K, [Fe/H]=+0.3, log(g)=2.3) source of the Galactic bulge microlensing event EROS BLG-2000-5. These measurements are inconsistent with the predictions of atmospheric models at >10 sigma. While the disagreement is present in all bands, it is most apparent in I, I_E and V_E, in part because the data are better and in part because the intrinsic disagreement is stronger. We find that when limb-darkening profiles are normalized to have unit total flux, the I-band models for a broad range of temperatures all cross each other at a common point. The solar profile also passes through this point. However, the profile as measured by microlensing does not. We conjecture that the models have incorporated some aspect of solar physics that is not shared by giant atmospheres.

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