| Issue |
A&A
Volume 408, Number 2, September III 2003
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Page(s) | 681 - 688 | |
| Section | Stellar structure and evolution | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20030994 | |
| Published online | 17 November 2003 | |
The interferometric diameter and internal structure of Sirius A
1
European Southern Observatory, Alonso de Cordova 3107, Casilla 19001, Vitacura, Santiago 19, Chile
2
Département Cassini, UMR CNRS 6529, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, BP 4229, 06304 Nice Cedex 4, France
3
LESIA, Observatoire de Paris-Meudon, 5 place Jules Janssen, 92195 Meudon Cedex, France
4
European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-str. 2, 85748 Garching, Germany
Corresponding author: P. Kervella, pkervell@eso.org
Received:
10
April
2003
Accepted:
23
June
2003
The interferometric observations of dwarf stars in the solar neighbourhood,
combined with Hipparcos parallaxes provide very precise values
of their linear diameters. In this paper, we report the direct measurement of the
angular diameter of the bright star Sirius A with the VINCI/VLTI instrument.
We obtain a uniform disk angular diameter of
mas in the K band
and a limb darkened value of
mas.
In combination with the Hipparcos parallax of 
mas,
this translates into a linear diameter of 
.
Using the VINCI/VLTI interferometric diameter and the published properties of
Sirius A, we derive internal structure models corresponding to
ages between 200 and 
Myr. This range is defined mainly
by the hypothesis on the mass of the star, the overshoot and the metallicity.
Key words: stars: individual: Sirius / stars: fundamental parameters / stars: evolution / techniques: interferometric
© ESO, 2003
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