2016年、国際天文学連合は、恒星の固有名に関するワーキンググループ(Working Group on Star Names, WGSN)を組織した[22]。ワーキンググループは、対象となる恒星が連星系の場合、最も明るい恒星に、その名称を付与する事としている[23]。2016年6月30日に国際天文学連合の恒星の命名に関するワーキンググループは、Achernar をエリダヌス座α星Aの固有名として正式に承認した[3]。
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^ abcCarciofi, A. C.; Domiciano de Souza, A.; Magalhães, A. M.; Bjorkman, J. E.; Vakili, F. (March 2008). “On the Determination of the Rotational Oblateness of Achernar”. The Astrophysical Journal676 (1): L41–L44. arXiv:0801.4901. Bibcode: 2008ApJ...676L..41C. doi:10.1086/586895.
^ abcdKervella, P.; Domiciano de Souza, A.; Kanaan, S.; Meilland, A.; Spang, A.; Stee, Ph. (January 2009). “The environment of the fast rotating star Achernar. II. Thermal infrared interferometry with VLTI/MIDI”. Astronomy and Astrophysics493 (3): L53–L56. arXiv:0812.2531. Bibcode: 2009A&A...493L..53K. doi:10.1051/0004-6361:200810980.
^Tetzlaff, N.; Neuhäuser, R.; Hohle, M. M. (2011). “A catalogue of young runaway Hipparcos stars within 3 kpc from the Sun”. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society410: 190. Bibcode: 2011MNRAS.410..190T. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.17434.x.
^Perryman, M. A. C.; Lindegren, L.; Kovalevsky, J. (July 1997). “The Hipparcos Catalogue”. Astronomy and Astrophysics323: L49–L52. Bibcode: 1997A&A...323L..49P.
^See "Achernar the Flattest star" in ‘Sky & Telescope’ P. 20 ‘Newsnotes’, September 2003.
^ abCarciofi, A. C.; Magalhães, A. M.; Leister, N. V.; Bjorkman, J. E.; Levenhagen, R. S. (December 2007). “Achernar: Rapid Polarization Variability as Evidence of Photospheric and Circumstellar Activity”. The Astrophysical Journal671 (1): L49–L52. arXiv:0710.4163. Bibcode: 2007ApJ...671L..49C. doi:10.1086/524772.
^Cotton, D. V. (January 2016). “The linear polarization of Southern bright stars measured at the parts-per-million level”. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society455 (2): 1607–1628. arXiv:1509.07221. Bibcode: 2016MNRAS.455.1607C. doi:10.1093/mnras/stv2185.
^Hessman, F. V.; Dhillon, V. S.; Winget, D. E.; Schreiber, M. R.; Horne, K.; Marsh, T. R.; Guenther, E.; Schwope, A.; Heber, U. (2010). "On the naming convention used for multiple star systems and extrasolar planets". arXiv:1012.0707 [astro-ph.SR]。
^Hamacher, Duane W.; Frew, David J. (2010). “An Aboriginal Australian Record of the Great Eruption of Eta Carinae”. Journal of Astronomical History & Heritage13 (3): 220–34. arXiv:1010.4610. Bibcode: 2010JAHH...13..220H.