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We have analysed the photometric data obtained with the STEREO spacecraft for 558 non-magnetic chemically peculiar (CP) stars to search for rotational and pulsational variability. Applying the Lomb-Scargle and the phase dispersion…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 E. Paunzen , K. T. Wraight , L. Fossati , M. Netopil , G. J. White , D. Bewsher

About 10% of upper main sequence stars are characterised by the presence of chemical peculiarities, often found together with a structured magnetic field. The atmospheres of most of those chemically peculiar stars present surface spots,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 K. T. Wraight , L. Fossati , M. Netopil , E. Paunzen , M. Rode-Paunzen , D. Bewsher , A. J. Norton , G. J. White

The chemically peculiar (CP) stars of the upper main sequence are mainly characterized by strong overabundances of heavy elements. Two subgroups (CP2 and CP4) have strong local magnetic fields which make them interesting targets for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-08 E. Paunzen , M. Netopil , H. M. Maitzen , K. Pavlovski , A. Schnell , M. Zejda

The (magnetic) chemically peculiar (CP) stars of the upper main sequence are well-suited laboratories for investigating the influence of magnetic fields on the stellar surface because they produce abundance inhomogeneities (spots), which…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-30 K. Bernhard , S. Huemmerich , S. Otero , E. Paunzen

The chemically peculiar (CP) stars of the upper main sequence are well suited for investigating the impact of magnetic fields and diffusion on the surface layers of slowly rotating stars. They can even be traced in the Magellanic Clouds and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-23 A. Herdin , E. Paunzen , M. Netopil

High-quality light curves from space missions have opened up a new window on the rotational and pulsational properties of magnetic chemically peculiar (mCP) stars and have fuelled asteroseismic studies. They allow the internal effects of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-09 J. Labadie-Bartz , S. Hümmerich , K. Bernhard , E. Paunzen , M. E. Shultz

The magnetic chemically peculiar (mCP) stars of the upper main sequence exhibit strong, globally-organised magnetic fields which are inclined to the rotational axis and facilitate the development of surface abundance inhomogeneities…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-03 Martin Netopil , Ernst Paunzen , Stefan Hümmerich , Klaus Bernhard

We present high precision CCD photometry of 1791 objects in 20 open clusters with an age from 10 Myr to 1 Gyr. These observations were performed within the Delta a photometric system which is primarily used to detect chemically peculiar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Paunzen , K. Zwintz , H. M. Maitzen , O. I. Pintado , M. Rode-Paunzen

The magnetic chemically peculiar (CP2) stars of the upper main sequence are well-suited for investigating the impact of magnetic fields on the surface layers of stars, which leads to abundance inhomogeneities (spots) resulting in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-15 K. Bernhard , S. Huemmerich , E. Paunzen

In a sample of six young open clusters we investigated 1753 objects using the narrow band, three filter Delta a photometric system resulting in the detection of eleven bona-fide magnetic chemically peculiar (CP) stars and five Be or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. Paunzen , M. Netopil , I. Kh. Iliev , H. M. Maitzen , A. Claret , O. I. Pintado

Magnetic chemically peculiar (mCP) stars allow the investigation of such diverse phenomena as atomic diffusion, magnetic fields and stellar rotation. The aim of the present investigation is to enhance our knowledge of the rotational…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-26 Klaus Bernhard , Stefan Huemmerich , Ernst Paunzen

The detection of magnetic chemically peculiar (CP2) stars in open clusters of the Milky Way can be used to study the influence of different galactic environments on the (non-)presence of peculiarities, which has to be taken into account in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. Paunzen , M. Netopil , I. Kh. Iliev , H. M. Maitzen , A. Claret , O. I. Pintado

Magnetic chemically peculiar (mCP) stars of the upper part of the main sequence usually exhibit strictly periodic variations of their light, spectrum and magnetic field. These changes can be well explained using the oblique rotator model of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-18 Zdenek Mikulasek , Gabriel Szasz , Jiri Krticka , Juraj Zverko , Jozef Ziznovsky , Miloslav Zejda , Tomas Graf

A majority part of magnetic chemically peculiar (mCP) stars of the upper main sequence exhibits strictly periodic light, magnetic, radio, and spectral variations that can be fully explained by the model of a rigidly rotating main-sequence…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-27 Zdeněk Mikulášek

The study of chemically peculiar (CP) stars in open clusters provides valuable information about their evolutionary status. Their detection can be performed using the $\Delta a$ photometric system, which maps a characteristic flux…

Photometrically and spectroscopically variable chemically peculiar (CP) stars are the optimum laboratories for testing the rotational evolution of main sequence stars. A vast majority of well-studied CP stars have quite steady rotational…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-22 Zdenek Mikulasek , Jiri Krticka , Jan Janik , Juraj Zverko , Jozef Ziznovsky , Pavel Zverina , Miloslav Zejda

This paper reports results from our long-term $BV(RI)_{c}$ photometric CCD observations of eight pre-main-sequence stars collected from June 2008 to October 2022. These stars are located in the young open cluster Trumpler 37, in the field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-26 Sunay Ibryamov , Gabriela Zidarova , Evgeni Semkov , Stoyanka Peneva

The pre-main-sequence evolution of the chemically peculiar (CP) stars on the upper main sequence is still a vast mystery and not well understood. Our analysis of young associations and open clusters aims to find (very) young CP stars to try…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-23 Lukas Kueß , Ernst Paunzen

Magnetic chemically peculiar (mCP) stars exhibit complex atmospheres that allow the investigation of such diverse phenomena as atomic diffusion, magnetic fields, and stellar rotation. The advent of space-based photometry provides the…

We continue our survey for magnetic chemically peculiar (CP2) stars in galactic open clusters to shed more light on their origin and evolution. To study the group of CP2 stars, it is essential to find these objects in different galactic…

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