On the elemental abundance and isotopic mixture of mercury in HgMn stars

Models of (alpha) Cen A & B have been computed using the masses determined by Pourbaix et al. (2002) and the data derived from the spectroscopic analysis of Neuforge & Magain (1997). The seismological data obtained by Bouchy & Carrier (2001, 2002) do help improve our knowledge of the evolutionary status of the system. All the constraints are satisfied with a model which gives an age of about 6 Gyr for the binary.