Abstract

Context. Classical Be stars are hot non-supergiant stars surrounded by a gaseous circumstellar disk that is responsible for the observed IR-excess and emission lines. The influence of binarity on these phenomena remains controversial.

Highlights

  • Classical Be stars are close-to-main-sequence hot stars that show or have shown infrared excess and emission lines in their spectra

  • Considering that they are fast rotators, a generally accepted view of these objects is that their circumstellar environment consists of two distinct regions: a dense equatorial disk dominated by rotation where most of the infrared radiation and emission lines are produced and a more diluted polar wind responsible for the highly broadened ultraviolet lines

  • We discovered that two other K-band emission lines were strong enough to support the kinematics study: the He i line located at 2.06 μm, and the Brδ line around 1.94 μm

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Summary

Disk geometry and kinematics before the 2011 periastron

A. Meilland1, O. Delaa2, Ph. Stee2, S. Kanaan3, F. Millour2, D. Mourard2, D. Bonneau2, R. Petrov2, N. Nardetto2, A. Marcotto2, A. Roussel2, J. M. Clausse2, K. Perraut4, H. McAlister5,6, T. ten Brummelaar6, J. Sturmann6, L. Sturmann6, N. Turner6, S. T. Ridgway7, C. Farrington6, and P. J. Goldfinger6

Introduction
Observation and data reduction
Calculating the binary separation
This work
Previous work
The binary system’s physical parameters
The envelope geometry and kinematics
A qualitative analysis of the high-resolution data
The kinematic model
The circumstellar disk extension
The circumstellar disk kinematics
The disk asymmetry
Findings
Conclusion
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