We report the results of our study of magnetic fields in a sample of Be stars using spectropolarimetric data obtained at the European Southern Observatory with the multi-mode instrument FORS1 installed at the 8m Kueyen telescope. The detected magnetic fields are rather weak, not stronger than ~150G. A few classical Be stars display cyclic variability of the magnetic field with periods of tens of minutes.
@article{arxiv.0901.3323,
title = {Magnetic fields in classical Be stars},
author = {R. Yudin and S. Hubrig and M. Pogodin and I. Savanov and M. Schoeller and G. Peters and M. Cure},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0901.3323},
year = {2009}
}
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2 pages, 1 figure, 1 table, to appear in Proceedings of IAU Symposium 259 "Cosmic Magnetic Fields: from Planets, to Stars and Galaxies", Tenerife, Spain, November 3-7, 2008