Discovery of a magnetic field in the rapidly rotating O-type secondary of the colliding-wind binary HD 47129 (Plaskett's star)

J. Grunhut (1) , G. A Wade (2) , M. Leutenegger (3) , V. Petit (4) , G. Rauw (5) , C. Neiner (6) , F. Martins (7) , D. Cohen , M. Gagne , R. Ignace , S. Mathis (8) , S. de Mink , A. Moffat (9) , S. Owocki (4) , M. Shultz , J. O Sundqvist (10)

1 ESO - European Southern Observatory
2 Royal Military College of Canada
3 ULB - Université libre de Bruxelles
4 University of Delaware [Newark]
5 Université de Liège
6 LESIA - Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique
7 LUPM - Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier
8 LESIA (UMR_8109) - Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique
9 School of engineering sciences
10 LMU - Ludwig Maximilian University [Munich] = Ludwig Maximilians Universität München

Domaines: Physique [physics]; Astrophysique [astro-ph]

J. Grunhut, G. A Wade, M. Leutenegger, V. Petit, G. Rauw, et al.. Discovery of a magnetic field in the rapidly rotating O-type secondary of the colliding-wind binary HD 47129 (Plaskett's star). Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2013, 428 (2), pp.1686-1695. ⟨10.1093/mnras/sts153⟩. ⟨hal-02533376⟩