1302.1018 (I. Bedecarrax et al.)

Long-term spectropolarimetric monitoring of the cool supergiant Betelgeuse    [PDF]

I. Bedecarrax, P. Petit, M. Aurière, J. Grunhut, G. Wade, A. Chiavassa, J. -F. Donati, R. Konstantinova-Antova, G. Perrin

We report on a long-term monitoring of the cool supergiant Betelgeuse, using the NARVAL and ESPaDOnS high-resolution spectropolarimeters, respectively installed at Telescope Bernard Lyot (Pic du Midi Observatory, France) and at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (Mauna Kea Observatory, Hawaii). The data set, constituted of circularly polarized (Stokes V) and intensity (Stokes I) spectra, was collected between 2010 and 2012. We investigate here the temporal evolution of magnetic field, convection and temperature at photospheric level, using simultaneous measurements of the longitudinal magnetic field component, the core emission of the Ca II infrared triplet, the line-depth ratio of selected photospheric lines and the radial velocity of the star.

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