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探测UV大质量恒星磁层中的塞曼效应

Detecting the Zeeman effect in Massive Star Magnetospheres in the UV

C. Erba, V. Petit, K. Gayley, R. Ignace, A. ud-Doula, G. A. Wade

摘要:

大约7%的大质量恒星拥有稳定的表面磁场,这些磁场足够强大,可以通过它们对恒星风的影响来改变恒星演化。因此,描述这些大尺度场的强度和结构以量化它们对大质量恒星演化的影响至关重要。这是传统上通过测量的圆偏振所造成的塞曼分裂的光学光球线,但我们在这里调查的可能性检测斯托克斯$V$签名风敏感的共振线形成的磁约束风在高不透明的紫外线(UV)域。这种独特的诊断方法将可用于高灵敏度的星载紫外分光偏振仪,如POLSTAR。

英文摘要:

Approximately 7% of massive stars host stable surface magnetic fields that are strong enough to alter stellar evolution through their effect on the stellar wind. It is therefore crucial to characterize the strength and structure of these large-scale fields in order to quantify their influence on massive star evolution. This is traditionally done by measuring the circular polarization caused by Zeeman splitting in optical photospheric lines, but we investigate here the possibility of detecting Stokes $V$ signatures in the wind-sensitive resonance lines formed in magnetically confined winds in the high opacity ultraviolet (UV) domain. This unique diagnostic would be accessible to high-sensitivity spaceborne UV spectropolarimeters such as POLSTAR.

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