A photometric study of Be stars located in the seismology fields of COROT
Abstract
Context: In preparation for the COROT mission, an exhaustive photometric study of Be stars located in the seismology fields of the mission has been performed. The very precise and long-time-spanned photometric observations gathered by the COROT satellite will give important clues on the origin of the Be phenomenon.
Aims: The aim of this work is to find short-period variable Be stars located in the seismology fields of COROT, and to study and characterise their pulsational properties.
Methods: Light curves obtained at the Observatorio de Sierra Nevada, together with data from Hipparcos and ASAS-3 for a total of 84 Be stars, were analysed in order to search for short-term variations. We applied standard Fourier techniques and non-linear least-square fitting to the time series.
Results: We found 7 multiperiodic, 21 mono-periodic and 26 non-variable Be stars. Short-term variability was detected in 74% of early-type Be stars and in 31% of mid- to late-type Be stars. We show that non-radial pulsations are more frequent among Be stars than in slow-rotating B stars of the same spectral range.
- Publication:
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Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Pub Date:
- December 2007
- DOI:
- 10.1051/0004-6361:20078252
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0709.4606
- Bibcode:
- 2007A&A...476..927G
- Keywords:
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- stars: emission-line;
- Be;
- stars: oscillations (including pulsations);
- stars: statistics;
- techniques: photometric;
- Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- Accepted in A&