Prevalence of SED turndown among classical Be stars: Are all Be stars close binaries?

R Klement, AC Carciofi, T Rivinius… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Rapid rotation is a fundamental characteristic of classical Be stars and a crucial property
allowing for the formation of their circumstellar disks. Past evolution in a mass and angular …

[HTML][HTML] Short-term variability and mass loss in Be stars-I. BRITE satellite photometry of η and μ Centauri

D Baade, T Rivinius, A Pigulski, AC Carciofi… - Astronomy & …, 2016 - aanda.org
Context. Empirical evidence for the involvement of nonradial pulsations (NRPs) in the mass
loss from Be stars ranges from (i) a singular case (μ Cen) of repetitive mass ejections …

Non-LTE Monte Carlo radiative transfer–III. The thermal properties of tilted and warped Be star discs

MW Suffak, CE Jones, AC Carciofi… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We use the three-dimensional Monte Carlo radiative transfer code hdust to model Be stars
where the disc is tilted from the equatorial plane of the star. We compute 128 models across …

[HTML][HTML] Classifying Be star variability with TESS. I. The southern ecliptic

J Labadie-Bartz, AC Carciofi… - The Astronomical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
TESS photometry is analyzed for 430 classical Be stars observed in the first year of the
mission. The often complex and diverse variability of each object in this sample is classified …

γ Cas stars: Normal Be stars with discs impacted by the wind of a helium-star companion?

N Langer, D Baade, J Bodensteiner, J Greiner… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
γ Cas stars are a∼ 1% minority among classical Be stars with hard (≥ 5− 10 keV), but only
moderately strong continuous thermal X-ray flux, and mostly very early-B spectral type. The …

Growth and dissipation of Be star discs in misaligned binary systems

M Suffak, CE Jones, AC Carciofi - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We use a three-dimensional smoothed particle hydrodynamics code to simulate growth and
dissipation of Be star discs in systems where the binary orbit is misaligned with respect to …

Retrograde discs around one component of a binary are unstable to tilting

M Overton, RG Martin, SH Lubow… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
With hydrodynamic simulations, we show that a coplanar disc around one component of a
binary can be unstable to global tilting when the disc orbits in a retrograde direction relative …

Outbursts and stellar properties of the classical Be star HD 6226

ND Richardson, O Thizy, JE Bjorkman… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The bright and understudied classical Be star HD 6226 has exhibited multiple outbursts in
the last several years during which the star grew a viscous decretion disc. We analyse 659 …

The Be star 66 Ophiuchi: 60 years of disk evolution

KC Marr, CE Jones, AC Carciofi, AC Rubio… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We use a time-dependent hydrodynamic code and a non-LTE Monte Carlo code to model
disk dissipation for the Be star 66 Ophiuchi. We compiled 63 years of observations from …

Bayesian sampling with BeAtlas, a grid of synthetic Be star spectra I. Recovering the fundamental parameters of α Eri and β CMi

AC Rubio, AC Carciofi, P Ticiani… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Classical B emission (Be) stars are fast rotating, near-main-sequence B-type stars. The
rotation and the presence of circumstellar discs profoundly modify the observables of active …