Identifying Circumstellar Disks in LMC/SMC Clusters

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Classical Be stars are rapidly rotating near main-sequence B-type stars which have gaseous circumstellar disks. Our understanding of these stars is incomplete, especially as regards two fundamental questions: 1) Is the Be phenomenon an evolutionary effect? and 2) What role does metallicity play in the formation of Be circumstellar disks? 2-color diagram photometric techniques have been used to determine the frequency of candidate Be stars in clusters of various ages and metallicities; however, these techniques classify all B-type objects with excess Hα emission as classical Be stars, without accounting for the likelihood that other B-type stars, such as post main-sequence
B[e] stars, young stellar objects, and B-supergiants, may also exhibit Hα emission. We discuss how imaging polarimetry can be used to aid in the identification of the true classical Be stars in these clusters.

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