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The apparent surface brightness of a star decreases toward the limb, owing to the longer light paths through the stellar atmosphere. This fact, large enough and easily seen on the sun, has also a pronounced effect on the light curve of a binary during eclipse.
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© 1978 D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland
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Heintz, W.D. (1978). Limb Darkening. In: Double Stars. Geophysics and Astrophysics Monographs, vol 15. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9836-0_38
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