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In order to study the growth and evolution of circumstellar disks around classical Be stars, we analyze optical time-series photometry from the KELT survey with simultaneous infrared and visible spectroscopy from the APOGEE survey and BeSS…

Be stars are rapidly-rotating B stars that have shown emission lines originating in a circumstellar disk. The mechanisms that lead to disk formation and dissipation are not known although progress has been made with some systems. We present…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-09 Sola S. Nova , Noel D. Richardson , Jonathan Labadie-Bartz , Samantha Garcia Flores

Circumstellar discs of Be stars are thought to be formed from material ejected from a fast-spinning central star. This material possesses large amounts of angular momentum and settles in a quasi-Keplerian orbit around the star. This simple…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Alex C. Carciofi

Be stars possess gaseous circumstellar disks that modify in many ways the spectrum of the central B star. Furthermore, they exhibit variability at several timescales and for a large number of observables. Putting the pieces together of this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 X. Haubois , A. C. Carciofi , Th. Rivinius , A. T. Okazaki , J. E. Bjorkman

Be stars have generally been characterized by the emission lines in their spectra, and especially the time variability of those spectroscopic features. They are known to also exhibit photometric variability at multiple timescales, but have…

Among the emission-line stars, the classical Be stars known for their extreme properties are remarkable. The Be stars are B-type main sequence stars that have displayed at least once in their life emission lines in their spectrum. Beyond…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Christophe Martayan , Thomas Rivinius , Dietrich Baade , Anne-Marie Hubert , Jean Zorec

TESS photometry is analyzed for 432 classical Be stars observed in the first year of the mission. The often complex and diverse variability of each object in this sample is classified to obtain an understanding of the behavior of this class…

In the past decade, a consensus has emerged regarding the nature of classical Be stars: They are very rapidly rotating main sequence B stars, which, through a still unknown, but increasingly constrained process, form an outwardly diffusing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Th. Rivinius , A. C. Carciofi , C. Martayan

We present an investigation of a large sample of confirmed (N=233) and candidate (N=54) Galactic classical Be stars (mean V magnitude range of 6.4 to 12.6 mag), with the main aim of characterizing their photometric variability. Our sample…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-31 Klaus Bernhard , Sebastián Otero , Stefan Hümmerich , Nadejda Kaltcheva , Ernst Paunzen , Terry Bohlsen

Be stars are a class of rapidly rotating B stars with circumstellar disks that cause Balmer and other line emission. There are three possible reasons for the rapid rotation of Be stars: they may have been born as rapid rotators, spun up by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Virginia McSwain , Douglas R. Gies

Be stars are main-sequence massive stars with emission features in their spectrum, which originates in circumstellar gaseous discs. Even though the viscous decretion disc (VDD) model can satisfactorily explain most observations, two…

Classical Be stars, the "e" standing for the presence of spectroscopic line emission, are main sequence stars of spectral type B that are able to form a gaseous disk in Keplerian motion from star-ejected matter. The main driver of this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-17 Thomas Rivinius , Robert Klement

Context. Classical Be stars are hot non-supergiant stars surrounded by a gaseous circumstellar disk that is responsible for the observed infrared-excess and emission lines. The phenomena involved in the disk formation still remain highly…

Classical Be stars are introduced as object class and their particular potential for space based photometry is highlighted. A brief summary of the various types of variability observed in Be stars makes clear that an interpretation of every…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-25 Thomas Rivinius , Dietrich Baade , Alex C. Carciofi

Through cross-matching the ASASSN photometric light curves and LAMOST spectroscopic observations, we serendipitously captured a rare major outburst event from the Be star EPIC 202060631, lasting over 1000 days. Fortuitously, the LAMOST…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-21 Qing Gao , Hailong Yuan

Be stars are rapidly rotating, with angular frequency around $0.7-0.8$ of their Keplerian break up frequency, as a result of significant accretion during the earlier stellar evolution of a companion star. Material from the equator of the Be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-05 Rebecca G. Martin , Stephen H. Lubow , David Vallet , Madeline Overton , Stephen Lepp , Zhaohuan Zhu

A sample of 97 galactic field Be stars were studied by taking into account the effects induced by the fast rotation on their fundamental parameters. All program stars were observed in the BCD spectrophotometric system in order to minimize…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Zorec , Yves Fremat , L. Cidale

Be stars are rapidly rotating B main sequence stars, which show line emission due to an outflowing disc. By studying the evolution of rotating single star models, we can assess their contribution to the observed Be star populations. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-29 Ben Hastings , Chen Wang , Norbert Langer

Be stars are rapid rotators surrounded by a gaseous disk envelope whose origin is still under debate. This envelope is responsible for observed emission lines and large infrared excess. To progress in the understanding of the physical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-16 Y. R. Cochetti , C. Arcos , S. Kanaan , A. Meilland , L. S. Cidale , M. Curé

The Be phenomenon, i.e. the ejection of matter from Be stars into a circumstellar disk, has been a long lasting mystery. In the last few years, the CoRoT satellite brought clear evidence that Be outbursts are directly correlated to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 C. Neiner , S. Mathis
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