Thursday, May 17, 2012

1205.3603 (Evelyne Alecian)

The magnetic fields and magnetospheres of hot stars    [PDF]

Evelyne Alecian
Strong advances in direct evidence of magnetic fields in hot massive stars have been possible thanks to the new generation of high-resolution spectropolarimeters such as ESPaDOnS (on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope) or HARPSpol (on the 3.6m ESO telescope). UV and optical high-resolution spectroscopy has also been very useful to study the magnetospheres of massive stars. In this contribution I review the observing tools and our current knowledge concerning the detection and characterisation of the magnetic fields and magnetospheres in hot stars.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.3603

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