Detection of the Molecular Zeeman Effect in Circular Polarization on Cool Active Stars.pdfVIP

**FULL TITLE** ASP Conference Series, Vol. **VOLUME**, **YEAR OF PUBLICATION** **NAMES OF EDITORS** Detection of the Molecular Zeeman Effect in Circular Polarization on Cool Active Stars 1,2 3 1 1 4 S.V. Berdyugina , P. Petit , D.M. Fluri , N. Afram , J. Arnaud 7 1 Institute of Astronomy, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland 0 2 Astronomy Division, PO Box 3000, 90014 University of Oulu, Finland 0 3 Max-Planck-Institut f¨ur Sonnensystemforschung, Max-Planck-Str. 2, 2 D-37191 Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany r 4 Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Toulouse et Tarbes (LATT) OMP, 14, a M Avenue Edouard Belin, F-31400 Toulouse, France 1 Abstract. We report on the first ever detection of circular polarization in 2 molecular lines forming in magnetic regions on the surfaces of active stars. The new observations were obtained with the high-resolution spectropolarimeter ES- 1 PaDOnS recently installed at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. In July 2005 v 0 we carried out a survey of 17 G-K-M stars including active main-sequence dwarfs 6 and RS CVn-type giants and subgiants. All stars were found to possess surface 5 magnetic fields producing average atomic Stokes V signals of 0.05% to 0.5%. 3 Three stars clearly showed circular polarization in molecular lines of 0.5% to 0 1%. The molecular Stokes V signal