Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jan 2012
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2012aas...21940402t&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #219, #404.02
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
Be stars are rapidly rotating B-type stars that eject large amounts of gaseous material into a circumstellar equatorial disk. The existence of this disk has been confirmed through the presence of
several observational signatures such as the strong hydrogen emission lines, the IR flux excess, and the linear polarization detected from these systems. Here we report simultaneous near-IR interferometric and spectroscopic observations of circumstellar disks around Be stars obtained with the CHARA Array long baseline interferometer and the Mimir spectrograph at Lowell observatory. The goal of this project was to measure precise angular sizes and to characterize the fundamental geometrical and physical properties of the circumstellar disks. We were able to determine spatial extensions, inclinations, and position angles, as well as the gas density profile of the circumstellar disks using an elliptical Gaussian model and a physical thick disk model, and we show that the K-band interferometric angular sizes of the circumstellar disks are correlated with the H-alpha angular sizes. By combining the projected rotational velocity of the Be star with the disk inclination derived from interferometry, we provide estimates of the equatorial rotational velocities of these rapidly rotating Be stars.
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