Resolving the Effects of Rotation in Altair with Long‐Baseline Interferometry
Resolving the Effects of Rotation in Altair with Long‐Baseline Interferometry
We report the successful fitting of a Roche model, with a surface temperature gradient following the von Zeipel gravity darkening law, to observations of Altair made with the Navy Prototype Optical Interferometer. We confirm the claim by Ohishi et al. that Altair displays an asymmetric intensity distribution due to rotation, …