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Do All Stars Have Magnetic Fields?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

R. T. Stewart
R. T. Stewart*
Affiliation:
Division of Radiophysics, CSIRO, Sydney
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Abstract

Recent observational results are presented which strongly suggest that a much wider range of upper-main-sequence stars have appreciable surface magnetic fields than has previously been believed.

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Stellar
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , 1989 , pp. 60 - 61
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1989

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