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A statistical study of galactic bright Be stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 July 2011

Anatoly S. Miroshnichenko*
Affiliation:
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, P.O. Box 26170, Greensboro, NC 27402–6170, USA; email: a_mirosh@uncg.edu
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Abstract

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Creation of a modern database with a wide variety of data is an important step toward a better understanding of the Be phenomenon. In an effort to do that, I refined the existing catalog of Galactic Be stars and collected available observational data for 340 brightest objects and present some results of these data analysis. New candidates for Be binaries, which seem to represent a large fraction of Be stars, are suggested. Importance of the circumstellar optical continuum for modeling of the Be star envelopes is illustrated.

Type
Contributed Papers
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2011

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