Table 11: Parallax of $\alpha $ Cen from VINCI/VLTI and asteroseismological observations, and the corresponding self-consistent stellar parameters. Linear diameters are taken from the asteroseismology study by Thévenin et al. (2002).
Derived parallax $745.3 \pm 2.5$ mas  
  $\alpha $ Cen A $\alpha $ Cen B
VINCI LD size (mas) $8.511 \pm 0.020$ $6.001 \pm 0.034$
Model LD size (mas) $8.530 \pm 0.035$ $5.943 \pm 0.052$
VINCI diameter ($D_{\odot}$) $1.227 \pm 0.005$ $0.865 \pm 0.006$
Model diameter ($D_{\odot}$) $1.230 \pm 0.003$ $0.857 \pm 0.007$


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