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astro-ph.SR2026

Ariel stellar characterisation IV. Fundamental parameters of 18 hot stars in the Ariel mission candidate sample

H. Ramler, S. P. D. Borthakur, C. P. Folsom +16

The characterisation of exoplanetary systems depends on the accurate determination of host star parameters. The Ariel mission will probe the atmospheres of a statistically signific…

astro-ph.SR2026

Magnetic geometry of M dwarfs in the southern PLATO field

M. Diez, P. I. Cristofari, J. Morin +9

M dwarfs are the most abundant stars in the Galaxy and exhibit diverse magnetic behaviours. Understanding their large-scale magnetic fields is essential to study stellar dynamos an…

astro-ph.SR2026★ 3 cited

Intermediate-Mass Mergers: A New Scenario for Several FS CMa Stars

Daniela Korcakova, Nela Dvorakova, Iris Bermejo Lozano +6

We summarise the properties and nature of a peculiar group of B-type stars called FS CMa stars. These stars show the B[e] phenomenon, i.e., their spectra exhibit both forbidden emi…

astro-ph.SR2026★ 1 cited

Magnetic field measurements in a sample of Class I and flat-spectrum protostars observed with SPIRou

L. Drouglazet, E. Alecian, A. Sousa +27

Magnetic fields play a crucial role throughout stellar evolution, regulating angular momentum, channelling accretion, and launching jets and outflows. While the magnetic properties…

astro-ph.SR2026★ 3 cited

Painting a Family Portrait of the Yellow Super- and Hypergiants in the Milky Way I. Constraining the Distances and Luminosities

A. Kasikov, A. Mehner, I. Kolka +1

Context. Distances to evolved massive stars in the Milky Way are not well constrained by Gaia parallaxes due to their brightness and variability. This makes it difficult to determi…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 1 cited

Photometric and spectroscopic variability of the blue supergiant rho Leo

V. A. Checha, A. Aret, I. Kolka +12

Context. The post-main-sequence evolution of massive stars remains poorly understood, particularly for blue supergiants. These objects play a crucial role in the dynamical and chem…

astro-ph.SR2025

Newborn jet in the symbiotic system R Aquarii

T. Liimets, D. P. K. Banerjee, M. Santander-García +12

R Aquarii (R Aqr) is a well-known symbiotic binary that has attracted renewed interest during its recent periastron passage, an event that occurs only once every about 40 years. Th…

astro-ph.SR2025

PIMMS: Pulsation-Informed Magnetic Mapping of Stars with Zeeman-Doppler Imaging I. Formalism and numerical tests

C. Gutteridge, C. Neiner, C. Catala +1

Context. Magneto-asteroseismology is a novel technique allowing for more precise determinations of internal properties of magnetic pulsating stars, but requires an accurate charact…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 13 cited

A BCool survey of stellar magnetic cycles

S. Bellotti, P. Petit, S. V. Jeffers +6

The magnetic cycle on the Sun consists of two consecutive 11-yr sunspot cycles and exhibits a polarity reversal around sunspot maximum. Although solar dynamo theories have progress…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 5 cited

Yellow hypergiant V509 Cas -- stable in the 'yellow void'

A. Kasikov, I. Kolka, A. Aret +2

The yellow hypergiant star V509 Cas is currently undergoing an extreme phase of evolution. Having experienced eruptive mass-loss outbursts in the 20th century, the star's effective…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 10 cited

Discovery of magnetically guided metal accretion onto a polluted white dwarf

S. Bagnulo, J. Farihi, J. D. Landstreet +1

Dynamically active planetary systems orbit a significant fraction of white dwarf stars. These stars often exhibit surface metals accreted from debris disks, which are detected thro…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 6 cited

Star-disk interactions in the strongly accreting T Tauri Star S CrA N

H. Nowacki, E. Alecian, K. Perraut +11

Aims : We aimed at constraining the accretion-ejection phenomena around the strongly-accreting Northern component of the S CrA young binary system (S CrA N) by deriving its magneti…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 35 cited

Monitoring the large-scale magnetic field of AD~Leo with SPIRou, ESPaDOnS and Narval. Toward a magnetic polarity reversal?

S. Bellotti, J. Morin, L. T. Lehmann +23

One manifestation of dynamo action on the Sun is the 22-yr magnetic cycle, exhibiting a polarity reversal and a periodic conversion between poloidal and toroidal fields. For M dwar…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 2 cited

New Insight into the FS CMa System MWC 645 from Near-Infrared and Optical Spectroscopy

Andrea F. Torres, María L. Arias, Michaela Kraus +2

The B[e] phenomenon is manifested by a heterogeneous group of stars surrounded by gaseous and dusty circumstellar envelopes with similar physical conditions. Among these stars, the…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 18 cited

The winds of young Solar-type stars in the Pleiades, AB Doradus, Columba and Pictoris

Dag Evensberget, Stephen C. Marsden, Bradley D. Carter +6

Solar-type stars, which shed angular momentum via magnetised stellar winds, enter the main sequence with a wide range of rotational periods . This initially wide rang…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 79 cited

The magnetic field and multiple planets of the young dwarf AU~Mic

J. -F. Donati, P. I. Cristofari, B. Finociety +25

In this paper we present an analysis of near-infrared spectropolarimetric and velocimetric data of the young M dwarf AU Mic, collected with SPIRou at the Canada-France-Hawaii teles…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 40 cited

Constraining atmospheric parameters and surface magnetic fields with : an application to SPIRou spectra

P. I. Cristofari, J. -F. Donati, C. P. Folsom +8

We report first results on a method aimed at simultaneously characterising atmospheric parameters and magnetic properties of M dwarfs from high-resolution nIR spectra recorded with…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 10 cited

Misalignment of the outer disk of DK Tau and a first look at its magnetic field using spectropolarimetry

M. Nelissen, P. McGinnis, C. P. Folsom +7

Misalignments between a forming star's rotation axis and its outer disk axis, although not predicted by standard theories of stellar formation, have been observed in several classi…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 5 cited

V838 Mon: A slow waking up of Sleeping Beauty?

T. Liimets, I. Kolka, M. Kraus +15

Context. V838 Monocerotis is a peculiar binary that underwent an immense stellar explosion in 2002, leaving behind an expanding cool supergiant and a hot B3V companion. Five years…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 4 cited

The miniJPAS survey: stellar atmospheric parameters from 56 optical filters

H. -B. Yuan, L. Yang, P. Cruz +29

With a unique set of 54 overlapping narrow-band and two broader filters covering the entire optical range, the incoming Javalambre-Physics of the Accelerating Universe Astrophysica…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 19 cited

Transition from multipolar to dipolar dynamos in stratified systems

B. Zaire, L. Jouve, T. Gastine +4

Observations of surface magnetic fields of cool stars reveal a large diversity of configurations. Although there is now a consensus that these fields are generated through dynamo p…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 9 cited

A decade-long magnetic monitoring of Vega

P. Petit, T. Böhm, C. P. Folsom +2

Aims. The very weak magnetic field detected at the surface of Vega hints at a widespread population of weakly magnetic stars of A and B spectral types. We contribute here to gather…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 6 cited

Ultraviolet Spectropolarimetry With Polstar: Using Polstar to test Magnetospheric Mass-loss Quenching

M. E. Shultz, R. Casini, M. C. M. Cheung +17

Polstar is a proposed NASA MIDEX space telescope that will provide high-resolution, simultaneous full-Stokes spectropolarimetry in the far ultraviolet, together with low-resolution…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 8 cited

The magnetic field of the chemically peculiar star V352Peg

L. Fréour, C. Neiner, J. D. Landstreet +2

We present a spectropolarimetric analysis of the hot star V352Peg. We have acquired 18 spectropolarimetric observations of the star with ESPaDOnS at the CFHT between 2018 and 2019…