November 03, 2004
Type-As and White Dwarfs and Magnetars, oh my!

Space.com is carrying this story on a potential solution to the "magnetic star" mystery. By using new computer models, scientists were able to accurately model a sequence of events that would allow a star to keep some (or even most) of the magnetic field of the cloud that it was born in. While the results are still preliminary, it gives a boost to the "fossil field" theory of how these critters are born.

Posted by scott at November 03, 2004 01:56 PM

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