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2. Effective temperatures and surface gravities

For HR 4487, we used the homogeneous tex2html_wrap_inline1009 colors of Hauck & Mermilliod (1980) with the calibration of Napiwotzki et al. (1993) and found tex2html_wrap_inline1011 K, log g = 3.92. As we do not have spectrophotometry nor a Balmer line profile for this star, we adopted these values for our analysis. This method also gives tex2html_wrap_inline1015 K, log g = 3.72 for 14 Hya and tex2html_wrap_inline1019 K, log g = 4.40 for 3 Cen A. For 14 Hya, comparison of spectrophotometry (Adelman & Pyper 1979) with the predicted fluxes of an ATLAS9 solar composition model with the above combination of effective temperature and surface gravity is not optimal. Better agreement is obtained with the predictions of a tex2html_wrap_inline1023 K, log g = 3.75 model with no microturbulence which we adopted. For 3 Cen A, Castelli et al. (1997) derived tex2html_wrap_inline1027, log g = 3.8 after considering the problems with a variety of photometric data produced by contamination by the secondary which is a B star 1.5 magnitudes fainter, but only tex2html_wrap_inline1031 away.



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