The Incidence of Magnetic Fields in Massive Stars: An Overview of the MiMeS Survey Component
With only a handful of known magnetic massive stars, there is a troubling deficit in the scope of our knowledge of the influence of magnetic fields on stellar evolution, and almost no empirical basis for understanding how fields modify mass loss and rotation in massive stars. Most remarkably, there...
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ftdatacite:10.48550/arxiv.1108.2673 2023-05-15T18:50:46+02:00 The Incidence of Magnetic Fields in Massive Stars: An Overview of the MiMeS Survey Component Grunhut, J. H. Wade, G. A. Collaboration, the MiMeS 2011 https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1108.2673 https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.2673 unknown arXiv arXiv.org perpetual, non-exclusive license http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/ Solar and Stellar Astrophysics astro-ph.SR FOS Physical sciences Preprint Article article CreativeWork 2011 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1108.2673 2022-04-01T13:54:59Z With only a handful of known magnetic massive stars, there is a troubling deficit in the scope of our knowledge of the influence of magnetic fields on stellar evolution, and almost no empirical basis for understanding how fields modify mass loss and rotation in massive stars. Most remarkably, there is still no solid consensus regarding the origin physics of these fields - whether they are fossil remnants, or produced by contemporaneous dynamos, or some combination of these mechanisms. This article will present an overview of the Survey Component of the MiMeS Large Programs, the primary goal of which is to search for Zeeman signatures in the circular polarimetry of massive stars (stars with spectral types B3 and hotter) that were previously unknown to host any magnetic field. To date, the MiMeS collaboration has collected more than 550 high-resolution spectropolarimetric observations with ESPaDOnS and Narval of nearly 170 different stars, from which we have discovered 14 new magnetic stars. : 7 pages (+1 for questions), 3 figures, to appear in proceedings of Stellar polarimetry: From birth to death Report narval narval DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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With only a handful of known magnetic massive stars, there is a troubling deficit in the scope of our knowledge of the influence of magnetic fields on stellar evolution, and almost no empirical basis for understanding how fields modify mass loss and rotation in massive stars. Most remarkably, there is still no solid consensus regarding the origin physics of these fields - whether they are fossil remnants, or produced by contemporaneous dynamos, or some combination of these mechanisms. This article will present an overview of the Survey Component of the MiMeS Large Programs, the primary goal of which is to search for Zeeman signatures in the circular polarimetry of massive stars (stars with spectral types B3 and hotter) that were previously unknown to host any magnetic field. To date, the MiMeS collaboration has collected more than 550 high-resolution spectropolarimetric observations with ESPaDOnS and Narval of nearly 170 different stars, from which we have discovered 14 new magnetic stars. : 7 pages (+1 for questions), 3 figures, to appear in proceedings of Stellar polarimetry: From birth to death |
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The Incidence of Magnetic Fields in Massive Stars: An Overview of the MiMeS Survey Component |
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The Incidence of Magnetic Fields in Massive Stars: An Overview of the MiMeS Survey Component |
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