Table 2.
Final Δα/α measurements in the three regions, and statistics of the fits, compared with those of Kotuš et al. (2017) and Milaković et al. (2021).
This work (ESPRESSO) |
Kotuš et al. (2017) (UVES) |
Milaković et al. (2021) (HARPS) |
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Region | Δα/α | σ(Δα/α) | ![]() |
Ncomp | Δα/α | σ(Δα/α) | ![]() |
Ncomp | Δα/α | σ(Δα/α) | ![]() |
Ncomp |
Left | 2.2 | 3.3 | 0.80 | 41 | −6.2 | 3.4 | 1.09 | 32 | 7.2 | 3.1 | 0.99 | 19 |
Central | 1.6 | 5.6 | 0.84 | 40 | −4.7 | 1.7 | 1.17 | 25 | −4.7 | 4.0 | 0.87 | 17 |
Right | 1.1 | 1.5 | 1.03 | 48 | −0.8 | 0.6 | 1.26 | 49 | −2.6 | 3.4 | 0.99 | 26 |
All | 1.3 | 1.3 | 129 | −1.4 | 0.6 | 106 | 0.9 | 2.0 | 62 |
Notes. The best-fit values Δα/α and their statistical uncertainties are in units of parts-per-million (ppm). We note that the full results of this work, with systematic uncertainties included, are presented later in Sect. 4 (Table 3). The χ2 per degree of freedom () and number of fitted velocity components (Ncomp) in each model are also presented. The final row provides the weighted mean Δα/α and 1σ uncertainty for our work. Milaković et al. (2021) defined five regions, instead of the three used here and in Kotuš et al. (2017); the values reported below for Milaković et al. (2021) are representative only and combine their Table 2’s LFC values for regions I and II for our left region, and their regions III and IV for our central region, using the inverse of their total Δα/α uncertainties as weights.
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