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Magnetic fields in cool stars can be investigated by measuring Zeeman line broadening and polarization in atomic and molecular lines. Similar to the Sun, these fields are complex and height-dependent. Many molecular lines dominating M-dwarf…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-11 N. Afram , S. V. Berdyugina

Radio observations at low frequencies are sensitive to the magnetic activity of stars and the plasma environment surrounding them. The accurate interpretation of the processes underlying the radio signatures requires a detailed…

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The study of the linear and circular polarization in AGN allows one to gain detailed information about the properties of the magnetic fields in these objects. However, especially the observation of circular polarization (CP) with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 E. Cenacchi , A. Kraus , A. Orfei , K. -H. Mack

We investigate the possibility of measuring magnetic field strength in G-band bright points through the analysis of Zeeman polarization in molecular CH lines. To this end we solve the equations of polarized radiative transfer in the G band…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Uitenbroek , E. Miller-Ricci , A. Asensio Ramos , J. Trujillo Bueno

Previous studies have related surface temperature maps, obtained with the Doppler imaging (DI) technique, of LQ Hya with long-term photometry. We compare surface magnetic field maps, obtained with the Zeeman Doppler imaging (ZDI) technique,…

Strong, globally-organized magnetic fields are found for a small fraction of O, B, and A stars. At the same time, many theoretical and indirect observational studies suggested ubiquitous presence of weak localized magnetic fields at the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 O. Kochukhov , N. Sudnik

We report on spectropolarimetric observations across the Mg II h and k-lines at 2800 angstrom made by the Ultraviolet Spectrometer and Polarimeter onboard the Solar Maximum Mission satellite. Our analysis confirms the strong linear…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-02 R. Manso Sainz , T. del Pino Alemán , R. Casini , S. McIntosh

Full polarization measurements of 1665 and 1667-MHz OH masers at 261 sites of massive star formation have been made with the Parkes radio telescope. Here we present the resulting spectra for 157 southern sources, complementing our…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-02-13 J. L. Caswell , J. A. Green , C. J. Phillips

The recent discovery of a weak surface magnetic field on the normal intermediate-mass star Vega raises the question of the origin of this magnetism in a class of stars that was not known to host magnetic fields. We aim to confirm the field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 P. Petit , F. Lignières , G. A. Wade , M. Aurière , T. Böhm , S. Bagnulo , B. Dintrans , A. Fumel , J. Grunhut , J. Lanoux , A. Morgenthaler , V. Van Grootel

Strong organized magnetic fields have been studied in the upper main sequence chemically peculiar stars for more than half a century. However, only recently have observational methods and numerical techniques become sufficiently mature to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 O. Kochukhov , G. A. Wade

The polarization of the Mg II h and k lines holds significant diagnostic potential for measuring chromospheric magnetic fields, which are crucial for understanding the physical processes governing the energy transport and dissipation in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-01 Hao Li , Tanausú del Pino Alemán , Javier Trujillo Bueno

Lines of diatomic molecules are more temperature and pressure sensitive than atomic lines, which makes them ideal tools for studying cool stellar atmospheres an internal structure of sunspots and starspots. The FeH F^4 Delta-X^4 Delta…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. Afram , S. V. Berdyugina , D. M. Fluri , M. Semel , M. Bianda , R. Ramelli

We introduce an iterative spectral disentangling technique combined with Doppler imaging in order to recover surface temperature maps for both components of double-lined active binary systems. Our method provides an opportunity to separate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Levente Kriskovics , Krisztián Vida , Zsolt Kővári , David Garcia-Alvarez , Katalin Oláh

We present a spectropolarimetric analysis of the hot star V352Peg. We have acquired 18 spectropolarimetric observations of the star with ESPaDOnS at the CFHT between 2018 and 2019 and completed our dataset with one archival ESPaDOnS…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-03 L. Fréour , C. Neiner , J. D. Landstreet , C. P. Folsom , G. A. Wade

The surface differential rotation of active solar-type stars can be investigated by means of Doppler and Zeeman-Doppler Imaging, both techniques enabling one to estimate the short-term temporal evolution of photospheric structures (cools…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Petit , J. -F. Donati , A. Collier Cameron

The tidal interaction of a Be star with a binary companion forms two spiral arms that cause orbital modulation of the Be disc structure. The aim of this work is to identify observables in which this modulation is apparent. The structure of…

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…

Vector magnetic fields of an active region filament in the photosphere and upper chromosphere are obtained from spectro-polarimetric observations recorded with the Tenerife Infrared Polarimeter (TIP II) at the German Vacuum Tower Telescope…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Z. Xu , A. Lagg , S. Solanki , Y. Liu

We present the outcome of a highly-sensitive search for magnetic fields on the cool supergiant Betelgeuse. A time-series of six circularly-polarized spectra was obtained using the NARVAL spectropolarimeter at T\'elescope Bernard Lyot (Pic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-06 P. Petit , M. Aurière , R. Konstantinova-Antova , A. Morgenthaler , G. Perrin , T. Roudier , J. -F. Donati

A sample of 19 solar-type stars, probing masses between 0.6 and 1.4 solar mass and rotation periods between 3.4 and 43 days, was regularly observed using the NARVAL spectropolarimeter at Telescope Bernard Lyot (Pic du Midi, France) between…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 A. Morgenthaler , P. Petit , J. Morin , M. Auriere , B. Dintrans , R. Konstantinova-Antova , S. Marsden