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Magnetic fields play a role in almost all stages of stellar evolution.
Most low-mass stars, including the Sun, show surface fields that are
generated by dynamo processes in their convective envelopes.
Intermediate-mass stars do not have deep convective envelopes, yet 10\%
exhibit strong fields that are presumed to be residuals from the stellar
formation process. These stars do have convective cores that might produce
magnetic fields, and these might even survive into later stages of stellar
evolution, but information is limited by our inability to measure the
fields below the stellar surface. Here we use asteroseismology to study
the occurrence of magnetic fields in the cores of low- and
intermediate-mass stars. We have measured the strength of dipolar
oscillation modes, which are
sup- pressed suppressed by a strong magnetic field in the
core, in over 3500 red giant stars. About 20\% of our sample have mode
suppression but this fraction is a strong function of mass. For
intermediate-mass stars
(1.6–2.0 $M_\odot$), (1.6--2.0\,$M_\odot$), strong core fields occur in
at least 60\%, suggesting that powerful dynamos are very common in the
convective cores of these stars