6 papers
Magnetic fields, winds and X-rays of massive stars: A spectropolarimetric survey of the Orion cluster
V. Petit, G. A. Wade, L. Drissen +2
In massive stars, magnetic fields are thought to confine the outflowing radiatively-driven wind, resulting in X-ray emission that is harder, more variable and more efficient than t…
The Gaia satellite: a tool for Emission Line Stars and Hot Stars
Christophe Martayan, Yves Fremat, Ronny Blomme +19
The Gaia satellite will be launched at the end of 2011. It will observe at least 1 billion stars, and among them several million emission line stars and hot stars. Gaia will provid…
Magnetic topologies of the Herbig Ae/Be stars
E. Alecian, G. A. Wade, C. Catala +9
Our recent discoveries of magnetic fields in a small number of Herbig Ae/Be (HAeBe) stars, the evolutionary progenitors of main sequence A/B stars, raise new questions about the or…
Magnetism and rotation in Herbig Ae/Be stars
E. Alecian, G. A. Wade, C. Catala +8
Among the main sequence intermediate mass A and B stars, around 5% host large-scale organized magnetic fields. Most of these stars are very slow rotators compared to their non-magn…
Magnetic fields in Herbig Ae/Be stars
G. A. Wade, C. Catala, E. Alecian +7
Studies of stellar magnetism at the pre-main sequence phase can provide important new insights into the detailed physics of the late stages of star formation, and into the observed…
Investigating the pre-main sequence magnetic chemically peculiar system HD 72106
C. P. Folsom, G. A. Wade, D. A. Hanes +7
The origin of the strong magnetic fields observed in chemically peculiar Ap and Bp stars stars has long been debated. The recent discovery of magnetic fields in the intermediate ma…