Spectropolarimetric Survey of Hydrogen-rich White Dwarf Stars

Kawka, Adela; Vennes, Stephane; Schmidt, Gary Dean; Wickramasinghe, Dayal; Koch, Rolf

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Spectropolarimetric Survey of Hydrogen-rich White Dwarf Stars

Date

2007

Authors

Kawka, Adela

Vennes, Stephane

Schmidt, Gary Dean

Wickramasinghe, Dayal

Koch, Rolf

Publisher

IOP Publishing

Abstract

We have conducted a survey of 61 southern white dwarfs searching for magnetic fields using Zeeman spectropolarimetry. Our objective is to obtain a magnetic field distribution for these objects and, in particular, to find white dwarfs with weak fields. We