3 papers
astro-ph.IM2024
The PLATO Mission
Heike Rauer, Conny Aerts, Juan Cabrera +842
PLATO (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars) is ESA's M3 mission designed to detect and characterise extrasolar planets and perform asteroseismic monitoring of a large numb…
astro-ph.SR2024
The origins of the magnetic field in tip-RGB, AGB and post-AGB stars
Renada Konstantinova-Antova, Stefan Georgiev, Agnès Lèbre +3
During the last decade and a half, the new generation spectropolarimeter Narval at Pic du Midi, France allowed the study of weak magnetic fields in cool giant stars that are fairly…
astro-ph.SR2024
SiO maser polarization and magnetic field in evolved cool stars
L. Marinho, F. Herpin, H. Wiesemeyer +6
Both magnetic fields and photospheric/atmospheric dynamics can be involved in triggering the important mass loss observed in evolved cool stars. Previous works have revealed that t…