Abstract
The limb darkening effect on the measurement of stellar rotation is discussed in this paper. It is shown that this effect plays an important role in the measurement of V e sin i. In the extreme case with the limb darkening coefficient of 1.0, it may cause a difference up to 17%. As a sequel to paper [1], this work presents the following new explanation for the systematic differences between Slettebak's new and old systems. The main causes of the systematic differences are: (1) The old system made an inadequate twice repeated correction for the limb darkening. (2) Owing to the historical reason, the old system used too large limb darkening coefficients.
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