Bibcode
Fabas, N.; Lèbre, A.; Gillet, D.
Referencia bibliográfica
SF2A-2010: Proceedings of the Annual meeting of the French Society of Astronomy and Astrophysics. Eds.: S. Boissier, M. Heydari-Malayeri, R. Samadi and D. Valls-Gabaud, p.249
Fecha de publicación:
12
2010
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0
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Descripción
We have performed a spectropolarimetric survey of the variable Mira star
omicron Ceti along three pulsation cycles. We present those new data
collected with the Narval instrument mounted on the Télescope
Bernard Lyot in Pic du Midi, France. We have detected time variable
polarimetric signatures (on QUV Stokes spectra) associated with Balmer
hydrogen emission lines supposed to be formed behind the front of a
shock wave propagating throughout the stellar atmosphere. We associate
the linear polarization of Balmer emission lines in Mira stars to the
presence and the structure of the radiative shock wave.