Ultraviolet and infrared excess emission in Be stars

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B Stars, Emission Spectra, Infrared Spectra, Stellar Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet Spectra, Balmer Series, Near Infrared Radiation, Paschen Series, Stellar Envelopes, Stellar Models

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Spectrophotometric observations of 26 Be stars are reported and analysed in the wavelength range λ3200 to λ8000 Å. Two observational features readily noted in these stars are: (1) a Balmer discontinuity smaller than that exhibited by normal B-type stars of similar spectral type; and (2) an excess flux in the near-infrared region. A simple optically thin model is assumed which describes the small Balmer jump as due to free-bound emission in the Balmer continuum arising in a circumstellar envelope. The same model parameters also reproduce the near-infrared excess when Paschen free-free and Paschen free-bound emissions are invoked. The volume emission measures for the circumstellar region are calculated. It is found that the near-ultraviolet and the near-infrared volume emission measures are loosely correlated to each other.

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