The incidence of magnetic fields in massive stars: An overview of the MiMeS survey component
JH Grunhut, GA Wade… - AIP Conference …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
With only a handful of known magnetic massive stars, there is a troubling deficit in the scope
of our knowledge of the influence of magnetic fields on stellar evolution, and almost no
empirical basis for understanding how fields modify mass loss and rotation in massive stars.
Most remarkably, there is still no solid consensus regarding the origin physics of these fields-
whether they are fossil remnants, or produced by contemporaneous dynamos, or some
combination of these mechanisms. This article will present an overview of the Survey …
of our knowledge of the influence of magnetic fields on stellar evolution, and almost no
empirical basis for understanding how fields modify mass loss and rotation in massive stars.
Most remarkably, there is still no solid consensus regarding the origin physics of these fields-
whether they are fossil remnants, or produced by contemporaneous dynamos, or some
combination of these mechanisms. This article will present an overview of the Survey …