Varying Impact Parameters

A plot showing normalized flux versus time in hours for various impact parameters from 0 to 1. The lightcurve dips to 0.9970 and lasts for four hours for an impact parameter of 1. The lightcurve only dips to 0.995 and lasts for maybe an hour for an impact parameter of 0.


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