Zeeman-Doppler imaging

It is a magnetic star whose surface magnetic field was mapped by means of Zeeman-Doppler imaging.

For rapidly rotating stars - Doppler imaging and Zeeman-Doppler imaging.

In astrophysics, Zeeman-Doppler imaging is a tomographic technique dedicated to the cartography of stellar magnetic fields.

Using the technique of Zeeman-Doppler imaging, Petit et al. (2008) have detected its surface magnetic field, showing that its intensity and geometry are very similar to the large-scale solar magnetic field.

With the Zeeman-Doppler imaging technique the direction of the magnetic field on stars can be determined since spectral lines are split according to the Zeeman effect, revealing the direction and magnitude of the field.

The Zeeman-Doppler imaging is a variant of the Doppler imaging technique, by using circular and linear polarization information to see the small shifts in wavelength and profile shapes that occur when a magnetic field is present.