The determination of the rotation period and magnetic field geometry of the strongly magnetic roAp star HD 154708

Authors
  • S. Hubrig
  • G. Mathys
  • D.W. Kurtz
  • M. Schöller
Publication date 2009
Journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Volume | Issue number 396 | 2
Pages (from-to) 1018-1022
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy (API)
Abstract
We obtained 13 spectropolarimetric observations of the strongly magnetic rapidly oscillating Ap star HD 154708 over 3 months with the multimode instrument FORS 1, installed at the 8-m Kueyen telescope of the Very Large Telescope. These observations have been used for the determination of the rotation period of P = 5.3666 +/- 0.0007 d. Using stellar fundamental parameters and the longitudinal magnetic field phase curve, we briefly discuss the magnetic field geometry. The star is observed nearly pole-on and the magnetic field geometry can be described by a centred dipole with a surface polar magnetic field strength B-d between 26.1 and 28.8 kG and an inclination of the magnetic axis to the rotation axis in the range 22 degrees.5 to 35 degrees.5.
Document type Article
Note DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.14768.x; eprintid: arXiv:0903.2564
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.14768.x
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