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| Paper: |
Large-scale Organized Magnetic Fields in O, B and A Stars |
| Volume: |
405, Solar Polarization 5: In Honor of Jan Olof Stenflo |
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473 |
| Authors: |
Mathys, G. |
| Abstract: |
The status of our current knowledge of magnetic fields in stars of spectral types ranging from early F to O is reviewed. Fields with large-scale organised structure have now been detected and measured throughout this range. These fields are consistent with the oblique rotator model. In early F to late B stars, their occurrence is restricted to the subgroup of the Ap stars, which have the best studied fields among the early-type stars. Presence of fields with more complex topologies in other A and late B stars has been suggested, but is not firmly established. Magnetic fields have not been studied in a sufficient number of OB stars yet so as to establish whether they occur in all or only in some subset of these stars. |
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