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2019MNRAS.484.5810H - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 484, 5810-5833 (2019/April-3)

Magnetic topologies of young suns: the weak-line T Tauri stars TWA 6 and TWA 8A.

HILL C.A., FOLSOM C.P., DONATI J.-F., HERCZEG G.J., HUSSAIN G.A.J., ALENCAR S.H.P., GREGORY S.G. (The MaTYSSE Collaboration)

Abstract (from CDS):

We present a spectropolarimetric study of two weak-line T Tauri stars (wTTSs), TWA 6, and TWA 8A, as part of the MaTYSSE (Magnetic Topologies of Young Stars and the Survival of close-in giant Exoplanets) programme. Both stars display significant Zeeman signatures that we have modelled using Zeeman Doppler Imaging (ZDI). The magnetic field of TWA 6 is split equally between poloidal and toroidal components, with the largest fraction of energy in higher order modes, with a total unsigned flux of 840 G, and a poloidal component tilted 35° from the rotation axis. TWA 8A has a 70 per cent poloidal field, with most of the energy in higher order modes, with an unsigned flux of 1.4 kG (with a magnetic filling factor of 0.2), and a poloidal field tilted 20° from the rotation axis. Spectral fitting of the very strong field in TWA 8A (in individual lines, simultaneously for Stokes I and V) yielded a mean magnetic field strength of 6.0 ± 0.5 kG. The higher field strengths recovered from spectral fitting suggests that a significant proportion of magnetic energy lies in small-scale fields that are unresolved by ZDI. So far, wTTSs in MaTYSSE appear to show that the poloidal-field axisymmetry correlates with the magnetic field strength. Moreover, it appears that classical T Tauri stars (cTTSs) and wTTSs are mostly poloidal and axisymmetric when mostly convective and cooler than ∼4300 K, with hotter stars being less axisymmetric and poloidal, regardless of internal structure.

Abstract Copyright: © 2019 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society

Journal keyword(s): techniques: polarimetric - stars: formation - stars: imaging - stars: individual: TWA 6 - stars: individual: TWA 8A - magnetic fields

Errata: erratum vol. 486, p. 5526 (2019)

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