Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-v9fdk Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-20T00:38:34.668Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

A new test case for normal giant evolution: TZ Fornacis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

J. Andersen
Affiliation:
Copenhagen University Observatory, Denmark
J.V. Clausen
Affiliation:
Copenhagen University Observatory, Denmark
B. Nordström
Affiliation:
Copenhagen University Observatory, Denmark
M. Mayor
Affiliation:
Observatoire de Genève, Switzerland

Extract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

For normal giants, the only binary system known until recently with completely determined masses was Capella (αAur, GO III+G5III). Being non-eclipsing, its masses are, however, so uncertain (20% and 8%, respectively) that the properties of the corresponding range of theoretical models are considerably more uncertain than the observationally determined temperatures and luminosities. The discovery of the eclipsing nature of TZ For = HD 20301 (Olsen, 1977) thus provides a unique opportunity to obtain absolute parameters of much higher precision.

Type
III. BINARITY, PULSATION, ROTATION AND MIXING
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1984 

References

Hejlesen, P.M.: 1980, Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser. 39, 347 Google Scholar
Olsen, E.H.: 1977, Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser. 29, 313.Google Scholar