Be Stars Seen by Space Photometry
Abstract
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 single frequency as a pulsation mode falls short, instead there are as well purely circumstellar variations and those that originate in the immediate stellar to circumstellar interaction region. In particular the latter offer great potential, as they are linked to one of the few remaining great riddles of Be stars, namely how they feed their disks.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1610.07188,
title = {Be Stars Seen by Space Photometry},
author = {Thomas Rivinius and Dietrich Baade and Alex C. Carciofi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.07188},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
8 pages, 4 figures, invited talk to 2nd BRITE-Constellation Science Conference held in Innsbruck, to be published in the Proceedings of the Polish Astronomical Society, eds: G. Stachowski, E. Poretti, and J. Matthews