Direct multi-wavelength limb-darkening measurements of three late-type giants with the Navy Prototype Optical Interferometer
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1 Universities Space Research Association (USRA), 300 D Street SW, Suite 801, Washington, DC 20024, USA Mailing address: U.S. Naval Observatory, AD5, 3450 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20392, USA 2 U.S. Naval Observatory, 3450 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20392, USA (cah@,kjj@astro.,hajian@)usno.navy.mil 3 Naval Research Laboratory, Code 7210, Washington, DC 20375, USA, [email protected] 4 Lowell Observatory, 1400 West Mars Hill Road, Flagstaff, AZ 86001, USA, [email protected]
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