Publication details
Recent studies of magnetic fields in Herbig Ae/Be stars
| Authors | |
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| Year of publication | 2011 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Astronomische Nachrichten |
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| Citation | |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asna.201111607 |
| Field | Astronomy and astrophysics |
| Keywords | atmospheres stars: individual (HD 97048 - HD 101412 - HD 150193 - HD 176386 - MWC 480); stars: magnetic field; stars: pre-main sequence; stars: variables: general |
| Description | New determinations of the mean longitudinal magnetic field for several Herbig Ae/Be stars are presented. The longitudinal magnetic field measurements of MWC 480 reveal the presence of a strong kG field, which was undetected in our previous low-resolution polarimetric observations with FORS 1. The magnetic field geometries of Herbig Ae/Be stars studied with spectropolarimetric time series can likely be described by centred dipoles with polar magnetic field strengths of several hundred Gauss. A number of Herbig Ae/Be stars with detected magnetic fields were recently observed with X-shooter in the visible and near-IR as well as with the high-resolution near-IR spectrograph CRIRES. These observations are of great importance to understand the relation between the magnetic field topology and the physics of accretion flow and accretion disk gas emission. |