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Calibration of The Main Sequence Stars: Alpha Centauri

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

C. Neuforge*
Affiliation:
Institut d’Astrophysique Université de Liège, 5, avenue de Cointe, B-4000LIEGE-BELGIUM

Abstract

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New low temperature opacities have been computed and applied together with the new OPAL opacities to recalibrate the α Centauri system. Our solution is in favour of a Z value of about twice Z.

Type
IV. Input physics and basic stellar data
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1993

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