Abstract

AbstractClassical Be stars are rapidly rotating, hot stars that possess an equatorial disk formed from gas released by the central star. The mechanism driving the stellar mass loss has yet to be fully explained, but the rapid rotation of the central B star is believed to be crucial. Rapid rotation also produces gravity darkening, and we have now extended our disk models to include these effects. In this contribution, we focus on the effect of gravity darkening on the thermal structure of a circumstellar disk.

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