The origin of the magnetic fields in white dwarfs

Wickramasinghe, Dayal; Ferrario, Lilia

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The origin of the magnetic fields in white dwarfs

Date

2005

Authors

Wickramasinghe, Dayal

Ferrario, Lilia

Publisher

Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Abstract

Magnetic white dwarfs with fields in excess of ∼106 G (the high field magnetic white dwarfs; HFMWDs) constitute about ∼10 per cent of all white dwarfs and show a mass distribution with a mean mass of ∼0.93 M⊙ compared to ∼0.56 M⊙ for all white