Convective motion and Stellar jitter

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Stellar jitter is influenced by convective motions in the stellar photosphere, which create vertical currents. These currents can lead to variations in the radial velocity measurements used to detect orbiting planets, as they cause differential Doppler shifts in the light emitted from the photosphere. This results in noise and uncertainty in determining the true velocity of the star. Consequently, the presence of convective motion complicates the interpretation of data gathered from radial velocity detection methods. Understanding this relationship is crucial for accurate measurements in astrophysics.
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Page 26 of http://www.maths.qmul.ac.uk/~rpn/ASTM735/Week7.pdf claims that stellar jitter can be caused by the convective motions in the stellar photosphere.

Can someone explain that to me as I don't understand it?
 
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Convective motion can cause the photosphere to have currents that move up and down. Since the radial velocity detection methods relies on doppler shift to detect motions in the parent star due to orbiting planets, these currents can introduce noise and uncertainty in the measure of the amount of doppler shift, as the light from that area of the photosphere can be blue or red shifted differently than the rest of the star.
 

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