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Periodic Variability on Time-scales of Decades to Centuries in Magnetic Ap Stars: Challenges and Strategies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 August 2019

G. Mathys
G. Mathys*
Affiliation:
Joint ALMA Observatory & European Southern Observatory, Santiago, Chile email: gmathys@eso.org
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Abstract

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Recent studies have revealed the existence of a significant population of Ap stars with extremely long rotation periods, and the frequent occurrence of Ap stars in wide binaries. Those results represent new constraints on the understanding of the origin and evolution of Ap stars, and (by extension) of all upper-main-sequence stars. Current knowledge of Ap stars with the longest rotation and orbital periods remains incomplete, on the one hand because in many cases the periods of interest are longer than the time-spans over which relevant observations have been obtained, and on the other hand because some important subsets of Ap stars have been omitted from the studies that have been carried out until now. Additional observations over time-scales of decades to centuries are needed to complement the current incomplete picture. Securing them with the required accuracy and time coverage, and ensuring that their full exploitation will ultimately be possible, represents a unique challenge in time-domain astronomy.

Keywords

Stars: chemically peculiarstars: rotationstars: magnetic fieldsbinaries: general
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 14 , Symposium S339: Southern Horizons in Time-Domain Astronomy , November 2017 , pp. 106 - 109
Copyright
© International Astronomical Union 2019 

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