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A&A
Volume 386, Number 1, April IV 2002
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Page(s) | 280 - 285 | |
Section | Interstellar and circumstellar matter | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20020287 | |
Published online | 15 April 2002 |
Constraining the difference in convective blueshift between the components of α Centauri with precise radial velocities
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Institut d'Astronomie et d'Astrophysique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, C.P. 226, Boulevard du Triomphe, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium
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Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton NJ 08544-1001, USA
3
Department of Physics and Astronomy, San Francisco State University, CA 94132, USA
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Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 5241 Broad Branch Road NW, Washington DC 20015-1305, USA
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Anglo–Australian Observatory, PO Box 296, Epping, NSW 1710, Australia
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Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University, Twelve Quays House, Egerton Wharf Birkenhead CH41 1LD, UK
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Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, OX11 0QX, UK
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Faculty of Sciences, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, 4350, Australia
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Observatoire de Genève, 1290 Sauvergny, Switzerland
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Mount John University Observatory, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Canterbury, Orivate Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand
Corresponding author: D. Pourbaix, pourbaix@astro.ulb.ac.be
Received:
13
December
2001
Accepted:
20
February
2002
New radial velocities of α Cen A & B obtained in the framework the Anglo-Australian Planet Search programme as well as in the CORALIE programme are added to those by Endl et al. ([CITE]) to improve the precision of the orbital parameters. The resulting masses are
and
for A and B respectively. The factors limiting how accurately these masses can be derived from a combined visual-spectroscopic solution are investigated. The total effect of the convective blueshift and the gravitational redshift is also investigated and estimated to differ by
m s-1 between the components. This suggests that the difference in convective blueshift between the components is much smaller than predicted from current hydrodynamical model atmosphere calculations.
Key words: stars: binaries: general / stars: individual: α Cen / methods: data analysis
© ESO, 2002
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