Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Dec 2001
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001aas...19913707m&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, 199th AAS Meeting, #137.07; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 33, p.1513
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
Be and B[e] emission-line stars have emission-lines that are believed to arise from a circumstellar disk. The position of these stars in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram provides a puzzle. Are these young stars evolving towards the main sequence or are they evolved massive stars either evolving away from the main sequence or back towards it? In an effort to answer this question we have initiated an emission-line imaging survey of the circumstellar environments of Be and B[e] stars. Our intention is to look for structures indicative of prior stellar evolution and/or structures providing further evidence of the existence of circumstellar disks. In our initial set of observations of the environments of the B[e] star MWC314, we show it to have a very large (>15') bipolar structure associated with it. Such a structure is immediately indicative of an outflow restricted by the presence of a circumstellar disk. The bipolar structure is consistent with radio recombination lines observed at 57 km/s. This places the object at a distance of approximately 3kpc, based on galactic rotation in this portion of the sky. The total length of the bipolar is therefore over 13pc. We suggest that MWC314 is an evolved massive star with the tentative suggestion that it has evolved from a prior Luminous Blue Variable phase. Togther with its high luminosity, this would indicate that MWC314 is the kind of object that Eta Carina could evolve into.
Marston Anthony P.
McCollum Bruce
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