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The Astrophysical Journal, 742:42 (3pp), 2011 November 20 doi:10.1088/0004-637X/742/1/42 C 2011. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. Printed in the U.S.A. A MODEL ATMOSPHERE ANALYSIS OF ALPHA AURIGAE A Klaus Fuhrmann1,2 1 ¨ ¨ Astronomisches Institut, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Universitatsstraße 150, D-44780 Bochum, Germany 2 Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes, Apartado 321, E-38700 Santa Cruz de La Palma, Spain Received 2011 August 21; accepted 2011 October 3; published 2011 November 3 ABSTRACT This work presents the first quantitative composite model atmosphere analysis of Capella, the brightest near- equal-mass spectroscopic binary and principal star of the constellation Auriga. Its high-resolution spectrum leads to a slightly metal-rich object at [Fe/H] = +0.05 ± 0.08 dex. In line with its young age and its kinematics, this consistently associates Capella with the Hyades moving group. The measured projected rotational velocities, v sin iAa = 3.5 ± 0.8 km s−1 and v sin iAb = 35.4 ± 3.2 km s−1, both agree with rotational and orbital coplanarity and synchronous orbital rotation for the Aa component. At an orbital period P = 104 d the primary’s bound rotation together with the almost zero orbital eccentricity are both key characteristics of this binary and clearly imply that the Aa component must have passed the tip of the giant branch. Whether in that phase Capella also became a mass