Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2011-10-04
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
31 pages, 10 figures, Accepted for publication in the astrophysical Journal
Scientific paper
The temperature structure of Be star circumstellar disks at the sub-solar metallicity appropriate to the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is investigated. It is found that for central stars of the same spectral type, Be star disks in the SMC are systematically hotter by several thousand degrees compared to Milky Way (MW) disks with the same density structure. For early spectral types (B0e - B3e), this results in systematically smaller H{\alpha} equivalent widths for Be stars in the SMC. The implication of this result on Be star frequency comparisons between MW and SMC clusters is shown to be a 5 - 10% lowering of the detection efficiency of Be stars in SMC clusters. These calculations are also compared to the known H{\alpha} equivalent width distributions in the MW and SMC. For the MW, reasonable agreement is found; however, for the SMC, the match is not as good and systematically larger Be star disks may be required.
Ahmed Aqeel
Sigut T. A. A.
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