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ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
Volume 394, Issue 1, Pages L5-L8Publisher
E D P SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20021281
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asteroseismology; solar type oscillations; giant stars
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We report the firm discovery of solar-like oscillations in a giant star. We monitored the star xi Hya (G7III) continuously during one month with the CORALIE spectrograph attached to the 1.2 m Swiss Euler telescope. The 433 high-precision radial-velocity measurements clearly reveal multiple oscillation frequencies in the range 50-130 muHz, corresponding to periods between 2.0 and 5.5 hours. The amplitudes of the strongest modes are slightly smaller than 2 m s(-1). Current model calculations are compatible with the detected modes.
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