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Massive stars are crucial building blocks of galaxies and the universe, as production sites of heavy elements and as stirring agents and energy providers through stellar winds and supernovae. The field of magnetic massive stars has seen…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Rolf Walder , Doris Folini , Georges Meynet

Magnetic fields have been detected in most if not all types of stars across the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram. Where present, these fields have the potential to significantly impact the evolution of their host stars. Furthermore, they…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-21 A. J. Martin

The Magnetism in Massive Stars (MiMeS) Project is a consensus collaboration among many of the foremost international researchers of the physics of hot, massive stars, with the basic aim of understanding the origin, evolution and impact of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-15 Gregg A. Wade , the MiMeS Collaboration

Stellar Magnetism affects all spectral types and exists and varies throughout the evolution of stars. Magnetic fields can affect not only the interior of stars, but also their circumstellar environments. In this chapter, we concentrate on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-02 Veronique Petit , Mary E. Oksala

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

In this contribution, we present the MOBSTER Collaboration, a large community effort to leverage high-precision photometry from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (\textit{TESS}) in order to characterize the variability of magnetic…

Recent spectropolarimetric surveys (MiMeS, BOB) have revealed that approximately 7% of massive stars host stable, surface dipolar magnetic fields with strengths on the order of kG. These fields channel the dense radiatively driven stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-19 Christiana Erba , Veronique Petit , Alexandre David-Uraz , Alex Fullerton

We review the measurements of magnetic fields of OBA stars. Based on these data we confirm that magnetic fields are distributed according to a lognormal law with a mean log(B)=-0.5 (B in kG) with a standard deviation sigma=0.5. The shape of…

In massive stars, magnetic fields are thought to confine the outflowing radiatively-driven wind, resulting in X-ray emission that is harder, more variable and more efficient than that produced by instability-generated shocks in non-magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-09-29 V. Petit , G. A. Wade , L. Drissen , T. Montmerle , E. Alecian

We present an overview of the main characteristics of several spectroscopic surveys designed to advance our understanding of the physical properties and evolution of massive stars. We also summarize key results obtained from the analysis of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-30 S. Simón-Díaz

Magnetic field is playing an important role at all stages of star evolution from star formation to the endpoints. The main effects are briefly reviewed. We also show that O-type stars have large convective envelopes, where convective dynamo…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 André Maeder , Georges Meynet , Cyril Georgy , Sylvia Ekström

The many peculiarities of Ap stars (not only chemical ones, but also magnetic field and slow rotation) may vary during the main-sequence evolution of these stars. We review here briefly the evidences found in the last thirty years for such…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-25 P. North , J. Babel , D. Erspamer

We present the initial results of the Large Impact of magnetic Fields on the Evolution of hot stars (LIFE) project. The focus of this project is the search for magnetic fields in evolved OBA giants and supergiants with visual magnitudes…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-07 A. J. Martin , C. Neiner , M. E. Oksala , G. A. Wade , Z. Keszthelyi , L. Fossati , W. Marcolino , S. Mathis , C. Georgy

Magnetic confinement of the winds of hot, massive stars has far-reaching consequences on timescales ranging from hours to Myr. Understanding the long-term effects of this interplay has already led to the identification of two new…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-21 Zsolt Keszthelyi , Gregg A. Wade , Véronique Petit , Georges Meynet , Cyril Georgy

Massive O-type stars play a dominant role in our Universe, but many of their properties remain poorly constrained. In the last decade magnetic fields have been detected in all Galactic members of the distinctive Of?p class, opening the door…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-24 S. Bagnulo , Y. Naze , I. D. Howarth , N. Morrell , J. S. Vink , G. A. Wade , N. Walborn , M. Romaniello , R. Barba

During stellar evolution, especially in the PMS, stellar structure and rotation evolve significantly causing major changes in the dynamics and global flows of the star. We wish to assess the consequences of these changes on stellar dynamo,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-15 Constance Emeriau-Viard , Allan Sacha Brun

In recent years, the development of spectropolarimetric techniques deeply modified our knowledge of stellar magnetism. In the case of solar-type stars, the challenge is to measure a geometrically complex field and determine its evolution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Petit

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

Mass-loss from massive stars is fundamental to stellar and galactic evolution and enrichment of the interstellar medium. Reliable determination of mass-loss rate is dependent upon unravelling details of massive star outflows, including…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-18 Timothy N. Parsons , Raman K. Prinja , Derck L. Massa , Alex W. Fullerton

In some massive stars, magnetic fields are thought to confine the outflowing radiatively-driven wind. Although theoretical models and MHD simulations are able to illustrate the dynamics of such a magnetized wind, the impact of this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 V. Petit , G. A. Wade , E. Alecian , L. Drissen , T. Montmerle , A. ud-Doula