Accurate magnetic field measurements of Vega-like stars and Herbig Ae/Be stars

Details Accurate magnetic field measurements of Vega-like stars and Herbig Ae/Be stars Accurate magnetic field measurements of Vega-like stars and Herbig Ae/Be stars

2005-10-05

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0510157v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

7 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in A&A

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20053794

We have obtained accurate circular spectropolarimetric observations for a sample of Vega-like and Herbig Ae/Be stars with FORS1 at the VLT in an attempt to detect their magnetic fields. No magnetic field could be diagnosed in any Vega-like star. The most accurate determination of a magnetic field, at 2.6 sigma level, has been performed for the Vega-like star iota Cen for which we have measured = -77+-30 G. In the prototype of Vega-like stars, the star beta Pictoris, which shows conspicuous signs of chromospheric activity, a longitudinal magnetic field is measured only at ~1.5 sigma level. We diagnose for the first time a longitudinal magnetic field at a level larger than 3 sigma for the two Herbig Ae stars HD31648 and HD144432 and we confirm the previous detection of a magnetic field in a third Herbig Ae star, HD139614. Finally, we discuss the discovery of distinctive Zeeman features in the unusual Herbig Ae star HD190073 where the Ca II doublet displays several components in both H and K lines. From the measurement of circular polarization in all Balmer lines from H_beta to H_8 we obtain = +26+-34 G. However, using for the measurement of circular polarization only the Ca II H and K lines, we are able to diagnose a longitudinal magnetic field at 2.8 sigma level, = +84+-30 G.

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