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Interstellar Absorption of Some Be Stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 September 2016

J. Zorec
Affiliation:
Institut d'Astrophysique, Paris, France

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It is well known that the intrinsic colors of Be stars are not the same as those of “normal” B stars and they are often redder. So interstellar absorption of Be stars determined from photometric indices may be overestimated. In order to avoid this, a method often used to determine the interstellar absorption of Be stars is based on the ultraviolet interstellar absorption bump at 2200 Å (Dorschner 1975; Nandy et al. 1975, 1976). However some peculiar Be stars exist whose circumstellar matter contributes to the 2200 Å bump (Savage et al. 1978). The aim of this work is to test the deredenning method from the 2200 Å bump for “classical” Be stars, in determining the interstellar absorption in the region of the Be star, using the surrounding normal stars.

Type
III. The Circumstellar Gas
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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