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Do All Stars Have Magnetic Fields?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

R. T. Stewart*
Affiliation:
Division of Radiophysics, CSIRO, Sydney

Abstract

Recent observational results are presented which strongly suggest that a much wider range of upper-main-sequence stars have appreciable surface magnetic fields than has previously been believed.

Type
Stellar
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1989

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