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大质量恒星磁性的MiMeS巡天:O型星群的磁性

The MiMeS survey of Magnetism in Massive Stars: Magnetic properties of the O-type star population

V. Petit, G. A. Wade, F. R. N. Schneider, L. Fossati, K. Kamp, C. Neiner, A. David-Uraz, E. Alecian

摘要:

在本文中,我们描述了一个分析的MiMeS调查的O-型恒星,探索的范围内的偶极场强度允许的极化谱,不产生磁检测。我们直接使用贝叶斯推断的偶极拓扑模型的斯托克斯V剖面建模。Stokes V分布的噪声统计与零分布的噪声统计非常一致。使用蒙特卡罗方法,我们得出结论,一个模型,其中所有的恒星在我们的样本是主机100\,G,偶极磁场可以排除由MiMeS数据。此外,如果所有没有被探测到的恒星都有一个刚好低于其探测极限的磁场,那么这些未被探测到的磁场强度的推断分布将与已知的磁性O型星的强度分布不同。这表明初始磁场(B-)函数(IBF)可能是双峰的--年轻的O型恒星预期要么有弱/不存在的磁场,要么有强磁场。我们还发现,更好的上限,至少有10个因素,将有必要排除检测偏差的解释,明显缺乏演变的主序磁性O型星在文献中报道,我们的结论是,MiMeS调查不能证实或反驳磁通量衰减O型星。

英文摘要:

In this paper, we describe an analysis of the MiMeS Survey of O-type stars to explore the range of dipolar field strengths permitted by the polarisation spectra that do not yield a magnetic detection. We directly model the Stokes V profiles with a dipolar topology model using Bayesian inference. The noise statistics of the Stokes V profiles are in excellent agreement with those of the null profiles. Using a Monte-Carlo approach we conclude that a model in which all the stars in our sample were to host a 100\,G, dipolar magnetic field can be ruled out by the MiMeS data. Furthermore, if all the stars with no detection were to host a magnetic field just below their detection limit, the inferred distribution in strength of these undetected fields would be distinct from the known distribution in strength of the known magnetic O-type stars. This indicates that the Initial magnetic (B-)field Function (IBF) is likely bimodal -- young O-type stars are expected to either have weak/absent magnetic fields, or strong magnetic fields. We also find that better upper limits, by at least a factor of 10, would have been necessary to rule out a detection bias as an explanation for the apparent lack of evolved main-sequence magnetic O-type stars reported in the literature, and we conclude that the MiMeS survey cannot confirm or refute a magnetic flux decay in O-type stars.

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