Possible detection of a magnetic field in T Tauri

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2003-02-03

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0302026v1

Astron.Astrophys.401:1057-1062,2003

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20030156

Medium-resolution $(R\simeq 15000)$ circular spectropolarimetry of T Tauri is presented. The star was observed twice: on November 11, 1996 and January 22, 2002. Weak circular polarization has been found in photospheric absorption lines, indicating a mean surface longitudinal magnetic field $B_{\|}$ of $160\pm 40$ G and $140\pm 50$ G at the epoch of the first and second observations respectively. While these values are near the detection limit of our apparatus, we belive that they are real. In any case one can conclude from our data that $B_{\|}$ of T Tau does not significantly exceed 200 G, which is much less than surface magnetic field strength of the star ($>2.3$ kG) found by Guenther et al. (1999) and Johns-Krull et al. (2000). We discuss possible reasons of this difference.

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