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Phan-Bao, Ngoc; Martín, Eduardo L.; Donati, Jean-François; Lim, Jeremy
Bibliographical reference
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 646, Issue 1, pp. L73-L76.
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2006
Journal
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15
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14
Description
We report here our spectropolarimetric observations obtained using the
CFHT Espadons high-resolution spectrograph of two M dwarf stars that
standard models suggest are fully convective: EV Lac (M3.5) and HH And
(M5.5). The difference in their rotational velocity makes them good
targets for studying the dependence of the magnetic field topology in M
dwarfs on rotation. Our results reveal some aspects of the field
topology in EV Lac and HH And. We measured mean longitudinal magnetic
field strengths (Bz) in EV Lac ranging from 18+/-3 to -40+/-3
G. The Bz variations are seen to occur on a timescale of less
than 50 minutes, which is significantly shorter than the rotation
period, and are not due to a flaring event. We discuss some formation
scenarios of the Zeeman signatures found in EV Lac. For HH And we could
not detect circular polarization and thus we place an upper limit on
Bz of 5 G.