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Paper: α Centauri Revisited: When the Spectroscopic and the Astrometric Mass Ratios Become Consistent
Volume: 185, Precise Stellar Radial Velocities, IAU Colloquium 170
Page: 340
Authors: Pourbaix, D.
Abstract: Precise radial velocities lately published (Murdoch et al. 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 (1978)'s 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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