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The Astrophysical Journal
Article . 1992 . Peer-reviewed
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Radio emission from chemically peculiar stars

Authors: Jeffrey L. Linsky; Stephen A. Drake; T. S. Bastian;

Radio emission from chemically peculiar stars

Abstract

In five VLA observing runs the initial survey of radio emission from magnetic Bp-Ap stars by Drake et al. is extended to include a total of 16 sources detected at 6 cm out of 61 observed, giving a detection rate of 26 percent. Of these stars, three are also detected at 2 cm, four at 3.6 cm, and five at 20 cm. The 11 new stars detected as radio sources have spectral types B5-A0 and are He-weak and Si-strong. No classical (SrCrEu-type) Ap stars have yet been detected. The 16 detected sources show a wide range of radio luminosities with the early-B He-S stars on average 20 times more radio luminous than the late-B He-W stars and 1000 times more luminous than Theta Aurigae. Multifrequency observations indicate flat spectra in all cases. Four stars have a detectable degree of circular polarization at one or more frequencies. It is argued that the radio-emitting CP (chemically peculiar) stars form a distinct class of radio stars that differs from both the hot star wind sources and the active late-type stars. The observed properties of radio emission from these stars may be understood in terms of optically thick gyrosynchrotron emission from a nonthermal distribution of electrons produced in a current sheet far from the star. In this model the electrons travel along magnetic fields to smaller radii and higher magnetic latitudes where they mirror and radiate microwave radiation.

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