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We present the results of a recent survey of cool, late-type supergiants - the descendants of massive O- and B-type stars - that has systematically detected magnetic fields in these stars using spectropolarimetric observations obtained with…
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We report the first detection of circular polarization in 4.7 GHz excited OH masers in star-forming regions made using full Stokes measurements with the Green Bank 100m telescope. The Zeeman shift between the two circular components…
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We present results of synthetic spectro-polarimetric diagnostics of radiative MHD simulations of solar surface convection with magnetic fields. Stokes profiles of Zeeman-sensitive lines of neutral iron in the visible and infrared spectral…
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Several arguments have been presented that favour a scenario in which the low detection rate of magnetic fields in Herbig Ae stars can be explained by the weakness of these fields and rather large measurement uncertainties.…
The standard methods of the magnetic field measurement, based on an analysis of the relation between the Stokes $V$-parameter and the first derivative of the total line profile intensity, were modified by applying a linear integral operator…
The near-Earth space weather is driven by the quick release of magnetic free energy in the solar corona. Probing this extremely hot and rarified region of the extended solar atmosphere requires modeling the polarization of forbidden and…
Insights on stellar surface large-scale magnetic field topologies are usually drawn by applying Zeeman-Doppler-Imaging (ZDI) to the observed spectropolarimetric time series. However, ZDI requires experience for reliable results to be…
Scattering polarization in the Sr I 4607.3 \AA \ line observed with high resolution is an important diagnostic of the Sun's atmosphere and magnetism at small spatial scales. At present, spatially resolved observations of this diagnostic are…
Several on-going and future experiments use a Stokes polarimeter (i.e. a rotating wave plate followed by a steady polarizer and by an unpolarized detector) to measure the small polarized component of the Cosmic Microwave Background. The…
We present the results of an ongoing survey of cool, late-type supergiants - the descendants of massive O- and B-type stars - that has systematically detected magnetic fields in these stars using spectropolarimetric observations obtained…