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The acoustic spectrum of alpha Cen A

Astrophysics 2016-08-30 v1

Abstract

This paper presents the analysis of Doppler p-mode observations of the G2V star α\alpha Cen A obtained with the spectrograph CORALIE in May 2001. Thirteen nights of observations have made it possible to collect 1850 radial velocity measurements with a standard deviation of about 1.5 m s1^{-1}. Twenty-eight oscillation modes have been identified in the power spectrum between 1.8 and 2.9 mHz with amplitudes in the range 12 to 44 cm s1^{-1}. The average large and small spacing are respectively equal to 105.5 and 5.6 μ\muHz. A comparison with stellar models of α\alpha Cen A is presented.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0206051,
  title  = {The acoustic spectrum of alpha Cen A},
  author = {F. Bouchy and F. Carrier},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0206051},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

9 pages, 12 figures, A&A accepted