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arxiv: 0901.3307 · v1 · submitted 2009-01-21 · 🌌 astro-ph.SR

Magnetic fields in O-type stars measured with FORS1 at the VLT

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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, Halpha emission variations, chemical peculiarity, narrow X-ray emission lines and non-thermal radio/X-ray emission. Here we present the results of our studies of magnetic fields in O-type stars, carried out over the last years.

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