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We aim to evaluate how well the variation of small-scale magnetic fields on the stellar surface can be monitored with time-series observations. Further, we aim to establish to what extent the measured total unsigned magnetic field traces…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-05 A. Hahlin , B. Zaire , C. P. Folsom , K. Al Moulla , A. Lavail

We present our analysis aimed at inferring average magnetic fields in slowly-rotating solar-like stars. Using the spectral line inversion code SPINOR, we perform high-accuracy line profile fitting and investigate whether Zeeman broadening…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-15 Richard I. Anderson , Ansgar Reiners , Sami K. Solanki

Stellar magnetic fields can be investigated using several, very complementary approaches. While conventional spectroscopy is capable of estimating the average magnetic strength of potentially complex field configurations thanks to its low…

M dwarfs are the most abundant stars in the Galaxy and exhibit diverse magnetic behaviours. Understanding their large-scale magnetic fields is essential to study stellar dynamos and assess the impact of magnetic activity on planetary…

We observe the slowly-rotating, active, single giant, EK Eri, to study and infer the nature of its magnetic field directly. We used the spectropolarimeter NARVAL at the Telescope Bernard Lyot, Pic du Midi Observatory, and the Least Square…

Stellar magnetic field measurements obtained from spectropolarimetry offer key data for activity and dynamo studies, and we present the results of a major high-resolution spectropolarimetric Bcool project magnetic snapshot survey of 170…

We present the results of the continuation of our magnetic survey with FORS1 at the VLT of a sample of B-type stars consisting of confirmed or candidate beta Cephei stars and Slowly Pulsating B stars. Roughly one third of the studied beta…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-22 S. Hubrig , M. Briquet , P. De Cat , M. Schoeller , T. Morel , I. Ilyin

Recent measurements of magnetic field strength inside the radiative interior of red giant stars open the way towards the characterization of the geometry of stable large-scale magnetic fields. However, current measurements do not properly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-16 Srijan Bharati Das , Lukas Einramhof , Lisa Bugnet

We are investigating the magnetic characteristics of pre-main sequence Herbig Ae/Be stars, with the aim of (1) understanding the origin and evolution of magnetism in intermediate-mass stars, and (2) exploring the influence of magnetic…

Our recent search for the presence of a magnetic field in the bright early A-type supergiant HD92207 using FORS2 in spectropolarimetric mode revealed the presence of a longitudinal magnetic field of the order of a few hundred Gauss.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 S. Hubrig , A. F. Kholtygin , M. Schöller , R. I. Anderson , S. Saesen , J. F. Gonzalez , I. Ilyin , M. Briquet

While about two dozen Herbig Ae/Be stars have been reported to be magnetic, only two of them, HD101412 and HD190073, have had their magnetic field geometries studied in the past. The knowledge of the magnetic field structure is important to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-28 S. P. Järvinen , S. Hubrig , M. Schöller , I. Ilyin , H. N. Adigozalzade , N. Z. Ismailov , U. Z. Bashirova , S. A. Alishov

We report the detection of a magnetic field on Vega through spectropolarimetric observations. We acquired 257 Stokes V, high signal-to-noise and high-resolution echelle spectra during four consecutive nights with the NARVAL…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 F. Lignieres , P. Petit , T. Bohm , M. Auriere

The presence of magnetic fields in O-type stars has been suspected for a long time. The discovery of such fields would explain a wide range of well documented enigmatic phenomena in massive stars, in particular cyclical wind variability,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Hubrig , M. Schoeller , R. S. Schnerr , I. Ilyin , H. F. Henrichs , R. Ignace , J. F. Gonzalez

Seventy-eight high-resolution Stokes V, Q and U spectra of the B8Iae supergiant Rigel were obtained with the ESPaDOnS spectropolarimeter at CFHT and its clone NARVAL at TBL in the context of the Magnetism in Massive Stars (MiMeS) Large…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 M. Shultz , G. A. Wade , C. Neiner , N. Manset , V. Petit , J. Grunhut1 , E. Guinan , D. Hanes , the MiMeS Collaboration

New magnetic Ap stars with split Zeeman components are presented. These stars were discovered from observations with the FEROS spectrograph at the ESO 2.2-m telescope. Fifteen new magnetic stars are analysed here. Several stars with very…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 V. G. Elkin , D. W. Kurtz , C. Nitschelm

Magnetic wind confinement has been proposed as one explanation for the complex wind structures of supergiant stars of spectral types B and A. Observational investigation of this hypothesis was undertaken using high-resolution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-20 M. Shultz , G. A. Wade , V. Petit , J. Grunhut , C. Neiner , D. Hanes , the MiMeS Collaboration

We performed a highly sensitive search for magnetic fields on a large set of HgMn stars. With the aid of a new polarimeter attached to the HARPS spectrometer at the ESO 3.6m-telescope, we obtained high-quality circular polarization spectra…

We report in this paper circularly and linearly polarized observations of the young active M dwarfs AU Mic and EV Lac with the near-infrared SPIRou spectropolarimeter at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, collected from August to October…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-03 J. -F. Donati , P. I. Cristofari , B. Klein , B. Finociety , C. Moutou

By studying young magnetically active late-type stars, i.e. analogues to the young Sun, one can draw conclusions on the evolution of the solar dynamo. We determine the topology of the surface magnetic field and study the relation between…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-02 Thomas Hackman , Jyri Lehtinen , Lisa Rosén , Oleg Kochukhov , Maarit J. Käpylä

Aims. In this paper, we aim to measure the strength of the surface magnetic fields for a sample of five intermediate mass T Tauri stars and one low mass T Tauri star from late-F to mid-K spectral types. While magnetic fields of T Tauri…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-20 A. Lavail , O. Kochukhov , G. A. J. Hussain , E. Alecian , G. J. Herczeg , C. Johns-Krull