Note on the Power-2 Limb Darkening Law

Abstract

Recently there has been a renewed interest in the power-2 limb darkening law for modeling exoplanet transits. This law provides a better match to the intensities generated by spherical stellar atmosphere models than other 2-parameter laws. To help facilitate a wider use of the power-2 law we correct a minor error and, expanding on previous work, suggest a parametrization that can improve the sampling required by some numerical methods such as MCMC.

arXiv comment3 pages, 1 figure, published as a research note of the AAS

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