Re: Astronomers detect ultra-weak magnetic fields in two metallic-line stars

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Subject	Re: Astronomers detect ultra-weak magnetic fields in two metallic-line stars
Date	2016-01-14 04:55 +0000
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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Astronomers detect ultra-weak magnetic fields in two metallic-line stars
>> http://phys.org/news/2016-01-astronomers-ultra-weak-magnetic-fields-metallic-line.html
> 
> 
>> (Phys.org)?A team of astronomers led by Aurore Blaz?re of the Paris
>> Observatory has discovered ultra-weak magnetic fields in
>> metallic-line stars Beta Ursae Majoris and Theta Leonis. Motivated by
>> a recent detection of a weak, circularly polarized signature in
>> spectral lines of a similar type star, Sirius A, the researchers
>> received a signal believed to be of a magnetic origin, using deep
>> spectropolarimetric observations of these two peculiar stars. What
>> they found may prove that weak magnetic fields could be more common
>> in the photospheres of intermediate-mass stars.
 
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