Magnetic Fields of Nondegenerate Stars

Author:

Donati J.-F.1,Landstreet J.D.2

Affiliation:

1. CNRS/Université de Toulouse, Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées, F-31400 Toulouse, France;

2. Department of Astronomy, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A 3K7 Canada;

Abstract

Magnetic fields are present in a wide variety of stars throughout the HR diagram and play a role at basically all evolutionary stages, from very-low-mass dwarfs to very massive stars, and from young star-forming molecular clouds and protostellar accretion discs to evolved giants/supergiants and magnetic white dwarfs/neutron stars. These fields range from a few μG (e.g., in molecular clouds) to TG and more (e.g., in magnetic neutron stars); in nondegenerate stars in particular, they feature large-scale topologies varying from simple nearly axisymmetric dipoles to complex nonaxsymmetric structures, and from mainly poloidal to mainly toroidal topologies. After recalling the main techniques of detecting and modeling stellar magnetic fields, we review the existing properties of magnetic fields reported in cool, hot, and young nondegenerate stars and protostars, and discuss our understanding of the origin of these fields and their impact on the birth and life of stars.

Publisher

Annual Reviews

Subject

Space and Planetary Science,Astronomy and Astrophysics

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