Detection of the Molecular Zeeman Effect in Circular Polarization on Cool Active Stars

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2007-03-21

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0703560v1

2006, in Solar Polarization Workshop 4, eds. R. Casini and B. Lites, ASP Conf. Ser., vol. 358, p. 381-384

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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We report on the first ever detection of circular polarization in molecular lines forming in magnetic regions on the surfaces of active stars. The new observations were obtained with the high-resolution spectropolarimeter ESPaDOnS recently installed at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. In July 2005 we carried out a survey of 17 G-K-M stars including active main-sequence dwarfs and RS CVn-type giants and subgiants. All stars were found to possess surface magnetic fields producing average atomic Stokes V signals of 0.05% to 0.5%. Three stars clearly showed circular polarization in molecular lines of 0.5% to 1%. The molecular Stokes V signal is reminiscent of that observed in sunspots.

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