Resolving the kinematics of the disks around Galactic B[e] supergiants
Abstract
B[e] Supergiants are luminous evolved massive stars. The mass-loss during this phase creates a complex circumstellar environment with atomic, molecular, and dusty regions usually found in rings or disk-like structures. For a better comprehension of the mechanisms behind the formation of these rings, detailed knowledge about their structure and dynamics is essential. To address that, we obtained high-resolution optical and near-infrared spectra for 8 selected Galactic B[e] Supergiants, for which CO emission has been detected. Assuming Keplerian rotation for the disk, we combine the kinematics obtained from the CO bands in the near-IR with those obtained by fitting the forbidden emission [OI] 5577, [OI] 6300,6363, and [CaII] 7291,7323 lines in the optical to probe the disk structure. We find that the emission originates from multiple ring structures around all B[e] Supergiants, with each one of them displaying a unique combination of rings regardless of whether the object is part of a binary system. The confirmed binaries display spectroscopic variations of their line intensities and profiles as well as photometric variability, whereas the ring structures around the single stars are stable.
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@article{arxiv.1807.00796,
title = {Resolving the kinematics of the disks around Galactic B[e] supergiants},
author = {Grigoris Maravelias and Michaela Kraus and Lydia S. Cidale and Marcelo Borges Fernandes and Maria L. Arias and Michel Curé and Georgios Vasilopoulos},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.00796},
year = {2018}
}
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27 pages, 13 figures, 4 tables. Published in MNRAS. Minor corrections in this version: (a) adding references in the text to Fig. 6, tables A6 and A8, and footnote 5, (b) adding/modifying the acknowledgments section