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Magnetic field evolution in OBA stars |
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| Institution: | 1.Astronomical Institute,St. Petersburg State University,Petrodvorets, St. Petersburg,Russia;2.Special Astrophysical Observatory,Russian Academy of Sciences,Nizhnii Arkhyz, Karachai-Cherkessian Republic,Russia;3.Observatorio Astronomico National,UNAM Ensenada,Ensenada, BC,Mexico |
| Abstract: | The applications of the spectral analysis methods discovered by Kirchhoff for the investigation of stellar magnetic fields are considered. The statistical properties of the mean magnetic fields for OBA stars have been investigated by analyzing data from two catalogs of magnetic fields. It is shown that the mean effective magnetic field ℬ of a star can be used as a statistically significant characteristic of its magnetic field. The magnetic field distribution functions F(ℬ) have been constructed for B-type and chemically peculiar (CP) stars, which exhibit a power-law dependence on ℬ. A sharp decrease in F(ℬ) in the range of weak magnetic fields has been found. The statistical properties of the magnetic fluxes for main-sequence stars, white dwarfs, and neutron stars are analyzed. |
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