Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-04-12
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
5 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables, accepted as a letter to MNRAS
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1745-3933.2006.00175.x
We present the results of a magnetic survey of a sample of eight beta Cephei stars and 26 Slowly Pulsating B stars with FORS1 at the VLT. A weak mean longitudinal magnetic field of the order of a few hundred Gauss is detected in the beta Cephei star xi^1 CMa and in 13 SPB stars. The star xi^1 CMa becomes the third magnetic star among the beta Cephei stars. Before our study, the star zeta Cas was the only known magnetic SPB star. All magnetic SPB stars for which we gathered several magnetic field measurements show a field that varies in time. We do not find a relation between the evolution of the magnetic field with stellar age in our small sample. Our observations imply that beta Cephei stars and SPBs can no longer be considered as classes of non-magnetic pulsators, but the effect of the fields on the oscillation properties remains to be studied.
Aerts Christine
Briquet Maryline
de Cat Peter
Hubrig Svetlana
Mathys Gautier
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