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The 1.25-kG estimate is conditional on fundamental ECMI and measures the local emission-site field, not automatically the global planetary field strength. MEASUREMENT

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Source: Discovery of radio emission from the exoplanet β Pictoris b · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:bcbfe1741b684e3168e564b567dd3571a734c4c2150d5a6ebec2eee0e710b288

The S-band burst was detected up to 3.5 GHz, requiring B greater than or approximately 1.25 kG at the emission site under the fundamental electron-cyclotron-maser interpretation. The authors state that the cyclotron frequency samples the local field strength at the emission point; the observed limit is not necessarily the planet-wide dipole or surface field.