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Dwarf galaxies are important laboratories for studying cosmic magnetism because they can maintain strong magnetic fields via the action of turbulent dynamo despite their low mass and weak gravitational potential. The Magnetic-field…

Recent laser-plasma experiments report the existence of dynamically significant magnetic fields, whose statistical characterisation is essential for understanding the physical processes these experiments are attempting to investigate. In…

This paper focuses on the polarized profiles of resonance scattering lines that form in magnetized disks. Optically thin lines from Keplerian planar disks are considered. Model line profiles are calculated for simple field topologies of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 R. Ignace

The uncertainty about a possible correlation between strength and inclination of the magnetic field and the continuum intensity of the sunspot penumbral fine-structure has been removed by a detailed analysis of a spatially very high…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-26 E. Wiehr

Polar spots are often observed on rapidly-rotating cool stars, but the nature of the magnetic field in these spots is as yet unknown. While Zeeman-Doppler imaging can provide surface magnetic field maps over much of the observed stellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. McIvor , M. Jardine , A. Collier Cameron , K. Wood , J. -F. Donati

Although the Sloan Digital Sky Survey has permitted the discovery of an increasing number of new ZZ Ceti stars, recent published analyses have shown that there are still many relatively bright (V < 17) ZZ Ceti stars waiting to be found. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Gianninas , P. Bergeron , G. Fontaine

Magnetic fields have been observed on all scales in our Galaxy, from AU to kpc. With pulsar dispersion measures and rotation measures, we can directly measure the magnetic fields in a very large region of the Galactic disk. The results show…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-01 Jinlin Han

(Edited for length) The Zeeman effect is the only observational technique available to measure directly the strength of magnetic fields in regions of star formation. We review the physics of the Zeeman effect and its practical use in both…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-15 Richard M. Crutcher , Athol J. Kemball

Understanding the formation and evolution of the Universe is crucial for cosmological studies, and the line intensity mapping provides a powerful tool for this kind of study. We propose to make use of multipole moments of redshift-space…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-20 Yan Gong , Xuelei Chen , Asantha Cooray

We have conducted a survey of 61 southern white dwarfs searching for magnetic fields using Zeeman spectropolarimetry. Our objective is to obtain a magnetic field distribution for these objects and, in particular, to find white dwarfs with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Kawka , S. Vennes , G. D. Schmidt , D. T. Wickramasinghe , R. Koch

We show that the use of Doppler shifts of Zeeman sensitive spectral lines to observe wavesn in sunspots is subject to measurement specific phase shifts arising from, (i) altered height range of spectral line formation and the propagating…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. P. Rajaguru , K. Sankarasubramanian , R. Wachter , P. H. Scherrer

After decades of efforts, optical long-baseline interferometry has become a mainstream observational technique in terms of operation robustness and user friendliness. Interferometry has opened a new observational window, enabling…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-02 H. Sana E. Bordier , K. Deshmukh , A. J. Frost , A. Keskar , C. Lanthermann , R. R. Lefever , L. Mahy , A. A. C. Sander , T. Shenar , F. Tramper

We aim to characterise the magnetic field of the eclipsing binary CU Cnc. The determination of magnetic field parameters of this target enables comparisons with both observations of similar stars and theoretical predictions of the magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-02 A. Hahlin , O. Kochukhov , A. D. Rains , J. Morin , G. Hussain , L. Hebb , K. Stassun

Stellar blends, where two or more stars appear blended in an image, pose a significant visualization challenge in astronomy. Traditionally, distinguishing these blends from single stars has been costly and resource-intensive, involving…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-30 Chinedu Eleh , Yunli Zhang , Rafael Bidese , Benjamin W. Priest , Amanda L. Muyskens , Roberto Molinari , Nedret Billor

Magnetic fields play vital roles in intracluster media (ICMs), but estimating their strengths and distributions from observations is a major challenge. Faraday rotation measures (RMs) are widely applied to this task, so it is critical to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-29 Andrew Johnson , Lawrence Rudnick , Thomas Jones , Peter Mendygral , Klaus Dolag

Astrometric detection involves a precise measurement of stellar positions, and is widely regarded as the leading concept presently ready to find earth-mass planets in temperate orbits around nearby sun-like stars. The TOLIMAN space…

In this paper, we review the various ways in which an infrared stellar interferometer can be used to perform direct detection of extrasolar planetary systems. We first review the techniques based on classical stellar interferometry, where…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 O. Absil

Stars with radiative envelopes, specifically the upper main sequence chemically peculiar (Ap) stars, were among the first objects outside our solar system for which surface magnetic fields have been detected. Currently magnetic Ap stars…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 O. Kochukhov

In a series of papers (Lombardi & Schneider 2001, 2002) we studied in detail the statistical properties of an interpolation technique widely used in astronomy. In particular, we considered the average interpolated map and its covariance…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Marco Lombardi , Peter Schneider

Magnetic fields in cool stars are ubiquitous but can still be challenging to characterize due to their complexity and relatively low strength. The polarization signature amplitudes are proportional to the field strength, and current studies…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-19 L. Rosén , O. Kochukhov , G. A. Wade