The photospheric velocity field of Procyon

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Binary Stars, Photosphere, Spectral Line Width, Stellar Atmospheres, Stellar Spectra, Velocity Distribution, Atmospheric Turbulence, Balloon-Borne Instruments, Fourier Transformation, Ultraviolet Astronomy, Ultraviolet Spectrometers

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Balloon-borne Ultraviolet Stellar Spectrometer observations of the profiles of two well observed spectral lines in the ultraviolet spectrum of Alpha CMI (Procyon; F5IV-V) are analyzed with a Fourier transform method in order to determine values of various parameters of the velocity field of the upper photosphere. A microturbulent line-of-sight velocity component of 0.9 + or - 0.4 km/s, a macroturbulent velocity component of 5.3 + or - 0.2 km/s, and a rotational velocity component of 10.0 + or - 1.2 km/s were determined. In these calculations a single-moded sinusoidal isotropic macroturbulent velocity function was assumed. The result appears to be sensitive to the assumed shape of the macroturbulence function.

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