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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Autores principales: Schneider, FRN, Ohlmann, ST, Podsiadlowski, P, Röpke, FK, Balbus, SA, Pakmor, R, Springel, V
Formato: Journal article
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Nature 2019