A Bayesian approach to the modelling of α Cen A

@article{Bazot2012ABA,
title={A Bayesian approach to the modelling of $\alpha$ Cen A},
author={Mich{\"a}el Bazot and S{\'e}bastien Bourguignon and J{\o}rgen Christensen-Dalsgaard},
journal={Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society},
year={2012},
volume={427},
pages={1847-1866}
}
• Published 2 September 2012
• Geology
• Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Determining the physical characteristics of a star is an inverse problem consisting of estimating the parameters of models for the stellar structure and evolution, and knowing certain observable quantities. We use a Bayesian approach to solve this problem for α Cen A, which allows us to incorporate prior information on the parameters to be estimated, in order to better constrain the problem. Our strategy is based on the use of a Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm to estimate the…
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