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Science 20 July 2007:
Vol. 317. no. 5836, pp. 325 - 326
DOI: 10.1126/science.1145599
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Perspectives

ASTRONOMY:
Seeing the Surfaces of Stars

Andreas Quirrenbach

Rapidly rotating stars are flattened spheres with poles that are hotter than the equator.

The author is at the Landessternwarte Königstuhl, University of Heidelberg, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany. E-mail: a.quirrenbach{at}lsw.uni-heidelberg.de

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