A Photometric Technique to Search for Be Stars in Open Clusters

Details A Photometric Technique to Search for Be Stars in Open Clusters A Photometric Technique to Search for Be Stars in Open Clusters

2004-10-06

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0410158v2

Astrophys.J. 622 (2005) 1052-1057

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

15 pages, 6 figures, 1 table. Accepted by ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/428343

We describe a technique to identify Be stars in open clusters using Stromgren b, y, and narrow-band Halpha photometry. We first identify the B-type stars of the cluster using a theoretical isochrone fit to the (b-y, y) color-magnitude diagram. The strongest Be stars are easily identified in a (b-y, y-Halpha) color-color diagram, but those with weaker Halpha emission (classified as possible Be star detections) may be confused with evolved or foreground stars. Here we present such photometry plus Halpha spectroscopy of members of the cluster NGC 3766 to demonstrate the accuracy of our technique. Statistical results on the relative numbers of Be and B-type stars in additional clusters will be presented in a future paper.

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