Abstract
We present the archive of spectroscopic photographic plates of the Universidad Católica historic observatory Manuel Foster. The archive includes more than 4800 plates covering the period of time from 1928 to 1991. The spectra present in the archive are mostly those of bright variable or binary stars observed at different epochs. We developed a method of digitalization and data processing for the plates and verified it through the analysis of a selected sample of spectra. As an example of the potential relevance of this Foster archive we studied the variation of helium, Hβ and Hγ spectral lines over time (1980−1991), complementing with high resolution spectroscopic data from the “Be Star Observation Survey” (2012−2015), of four Be stars mainly, α Eri, α Col, ω Car and η Cen. The spectra of these stars show evidence of a circumstellar gas disk present in both periods of time. From the spectroscopic analysis, we found these stars are variable in helium and this variability presents an opposite behavior with the variability observed in the EW of the Hβ line profile. This archive represents a unique source of data from past that is available for the use of the community.
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