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α Centauri revisited: when the spectroscopic and the astrometric mass ratios become consistent

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

D. Pourbaix
D. Pourbaix*
Affiliation:
Royal Observatory of Belgium, Avenue circulaire 3, B-1180 Bruxelles, Belgium, e-mail: pourbaix@astro.ulb.ac.be

Abstract

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Precise radial velocities lately published (Murdoch, Hearnshaw & Clark 1993) allow a simultaneous least-squares adjustment of all visual and spectroscopic observations. Starting with the same data as Murdoch & Hearnshaw (1993), we obtain a mass ratio that agrees better with Kamper & Wesselink’s (1978) astrometric estimate. Our results suggest upward revisions of the distance to the system as well as of the individual masses of the components.

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Type
Part 8. Binary Stars
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 170: Precise Stellar Radial Velocities , 1999 , pp. 340 - 346
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1999

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