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Issue A&A
Volume 430, Number 3, February II 2005
Page(s) 1143 - 1154
Section On-line catalogs and data
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20034563



A&A 430, 1143-1154 (2005)
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20034563

A catalog of stellar magnetic rotational phase curves

V. D. Bychkov1, 2, L. V. Bychkova1 and J. Madej3

1  Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhnij Arkhyz, 369167 Russia
    e-mail: vbych@sao.ru
2  Isaac Newton Institute of Chile, SAO Branch, Nizhnij Arkhyz, 369167 Russia
3  Astronomical Observatory, University of Warsaw, Al. Ujazdowskie 4, 00-478 Warszawa, Poland

(Received 22 October 2003 / Accepted 20 September 2004)

Abstract
Magnetized stars usually exhibit periodic variations of the effective (longitudinal) magnetic field $B_{\rm e}$ caused by their rotation. We present a catalog of magnetic rotational phase curves, $B_{\rm e}$ vs. the rotational phase  $\phi$, and tables of their parameters for 136 stars on the main sequence and above it. Phase curves were obtained by the least squares fitting of sine wave or double wave functions to the available  $B_{\rm e}$ measurements, which were compiled from the existing literature. Most of the catalogued objects are chemically peculiar A and B type stars (127 stars). For some stars we also improved or determined periods of their rotation. We discuss the distribution of parameters describing magnetic rotational phase curves in our sample.


Key words: catalogs -- stars: fundamental parameters -- stars: magnetic fields -- stars: rotation

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