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Be星族的光度变化

Photometric Variability of the Be Star Population

Jonathan Labadie-Bartz, Joshua Pepper, M. Virginia McSwain, J. E. Bjorkman, K. S. Bjorkman, Michael B. Lund, Joseph E. Rodriguez, Keivan G. Stassun, Daniel J. S… 展开作者

Jonathan Labadie-Bartz, Joshua Pepper, M. Virginia McSwain, J. E. Bjorkman, K. S. Bjorkman, Michael B. Lund, Joseph E. Rodriguez, Keivan G. Stassun, Daniel J. Stevens, B. Scott Gaudi, David J. James, Rudolf B. Kuhn, Robert J. Siverd, Thomas G. Beatty

摘要:

Be星通常以其光谱中的发射线为特征,特别是这些光谱特征的时间变化。已知它们在多个时间尺度上也表现出光度变化,但尚未通过该行为进行广泛的比较和分析。我们已经利用了宽视场,长基线和高节奏的测光调查,寻找过境系外行星之间的大量已知的Be恒星的亮度变化进行全面的分析。测光数据来自KELT凌日调查,典型的节奏为30分钟,基线长达十年,测光精度约为1%,覆盖约60%的天空。我们分析了610个已知的Be星在北半球和南半球的KELT光变曲线,努力研究它们的变化。与其他Be星变化的研究一致,我们发现大多数恒星是光度可变的。我们得出的下限的分数在我们的样本中,表现出的功能一致的非径向脉动(25%),爆发(36%),并在拱盘(37%)的长期趋势的恒星,并显示这些是如何与光谱子类型。其他类型的可变性,如那些由于二元性,也进行了探讨。来自Be星光谱数据库(BeSS)的其中一些系统的同步光谱使我们能够更好地了解所观察到的变化的物理原因,特别是在爆发和磁盘变化的情况下。

英文摘要:

Be stars have generally been characterized by the emission lines in their spectra, and especially the time variability of those spectroscopic features. They are known to also exhibit photometric variability at multiple timescales, but have not been broadly compared and analyzed by that behavior. We have taken advantage of the advent of wide-field, long-baseline, and high-cadence photometric surveys that search for transiting exoplanets to perform a comprehensive analysis of brightness variations among a large number of known Be stars. The photometric data comes from the KELT transit survey, with a typical cadence of 30 minutes, baseline of up to ten years, photometric precision of about 1%, and coverage of about 60% of the sky. We analyze KELT light curves of 610 known Be stars in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres in an effort to study their variability. Consistent with other studies of Be star variability, we find most of the stars to be photometrically variable. We derive lower limits on the fraction of stars in our sample that exhibit features consistent with non-radial pulsations (25%), outbursts (36%), and long term trends in the circumstellar disk (37%), and show how these are correlated with spectral sub-type. Other types of variability, such as those owing to binarity, are also explored. Simultaneous spectroscopy for some of these systems from the Be Star Spectral Database (BeSS) allow us to better understand the physical causes for the observed variability, especially in cases of outbursts and changes in the disk.

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