The yellow hypergiant - B[e] supergiant connection
Abstract
B[e] supergiants and yellow hypergiants share a number of common properties regarding their circumstellar environments. Using the forbidden [O I] and [Ca II] lines as disk tracers, we suggest the presence of a Keplerian disk or ring around the yellow hypergiant V509 Cas and confirm the pole-on inner disk around V1302 Aql. These findings indicate a change in mass-loss behavior from spherical in cooler yellow hypergiants to axisymmetric in the hotter ones during the passage through the Yellow Void. The accumulation of material in the equatorial plane reminds of the disks of B[e] supergiants, supporting the suggestion that yellow hypergiants might appear as B[e] supergiants after they reach the blue edge of the yellow instability domain.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1611.06044,
title = {The yellow hypergiant - B[e] supergiant connection},
author = {Anna Aret and Michaela Kraus and Indrek Kolka and Grigoris Maravelias},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.06044},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
4 pages, 3 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the conference "Stars: from collapse to collapse" (Special Astrophysical Observatory, Nizhnij Arkhyz, Karachai-Cherkessian Republic, Russia, 3-7 October 2016)