Stellar mergers as the origin of magnetic massive stars
About ten per cent of 'massive' stars (those of more than 1.5 solar masses) have strong, large-scale surface magnetic fields1-3. It has been suggested that merging of main-sequence and pre-main-sequence stars could produce such strong fields4,5, and the predicted fraction of merged massive...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Nature
2019
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