A massive helium star with a sufficiently strong magnetic field to form a magnetar

Shenar, T.; A. Wade, G.; Marchant, Pablo; Bagnulo, S.; Bodensteiner, J.; M. Bowman, D.; Gilkis, Avishai; Langer, N.; Chené, André-Nicolas; M. Oskinova, L.; Van Reeth, T.; Sana, H.; St‐Louis, Nicole; S. Oliveira, A.; Todt, H.; Toonen, Silvia

doi:10.1126/science.ade3293

Public

A massive helium star with a sufficiently strong magnetic field to form a magnetar

Published in Science • Aug 17, 2023

Authors:

T. Shenar

G. A. Wade

Pablo Marchant

Abstract

Magnetars are highly magnetized neutron stars, the formation mechanism of which is unknown. Hot helium-rich stars with spectra dominated by emission lines are known as Wolf-Rayet stars. We observed the binary system HD 45166 using spectropolarimetry and reanalyzed its orbit using archival data. We f...

Subject

Magnetar

Physics

Neutron star

Research Assistant

AI chat, annotations, notes & similar papers

Finding related papers...

Discussions

(0)

No comments yet

Be the first to share your thoughts!