photoeccentric

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English

Etymology

From photo- +‎ eccentric.

Adjective

photoeccentric (not comparable)

  1. (astronomy) Relating to the light from a star partially obscured by a planet with an eccentric orbit
    • 2016, Joshua E. Schlieder, Ian J. M. Crossfield, Erik A. Petigura, Andrew W. Howard, Kimberly M. Aller, Evan Sinukoff, Howard T. Isaacson, Benjamin J. Fulton, David R. Ciardi, Mickael Bonnefoy, Carl Ziegler, Timothy D. Morton, Sebastien Lepine, Christian Obermeier, Michael C. Liu, Vanessa P. Bailey, Christoph Baranec, Charles A. Beichman, Denis Defrere, Thomas Henning, Philip Hinz, Nicholas Law, Reed Riddle, Andrew Skemer, “Two Small Temperate Planets Transiting Nearby M Dwarfs in K2 Campaigns 0 and 1”, in arXiv:
      Thus, the long transits are likely due to the photoeccentric effect and our transit fits hint at an eccentric orbit.