1997A&A...325..195B

We report the discovery of magnetic fields larger than 11 kG in the three Ap SrCrEu stars BD +40^o 175, HD 63843 and HD 86592. In addition, we give new results for the star HD 47103, where the correlation peak is resolved into magnetically split components. The average (quadratic) surface field measured by correlation methods in the three newly measured stars is 16, 12 and 16kG respectively. Their effective temperatures, estimated from the profile of the Balmer lines, are 7100, 7500 and 7600K. The projected rotational velocities are 17, <5 and 16km/s respectively, so that two of these objects are not extremely slow rotators. One object, BD +40^o 175, is particularly interesting as it undergoes a strong variation of the magnetic field on a timescale of days with extreme values at 12.8 and 22kG, together with a large variation of the radial velocity measured in Hα and Hβ indicating a probable close SB1 system. For HD 86592, a period P=2.887 days is also determined from Geneva photometry. Our new measurements of HD 47103 do not show any relative variation of <H> larger than 1% compared with those of April 1995, suggesting that the rotational period of this star might be very long, of the order of years. It shows, however, a significant shift in v_rad indicating a membership in a binary system