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Binary Be Stars and Be Binaries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2017

Dietrich Baade
Dietrich Baade*
Affiliation:
European Southern Observatory Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2 D-W-8046 Garching, Germany

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Two hypotheses have been put forward for the rôle of binarity in Be stars: (1) All Be stars are interacting binaries. (2) Roughly one-half of the observed Be stars are post-mass exchange binaries with compact companions. Contrary to (1), (2) does not attempt to explain also the existence of disks in Be stars. After the spin-up by mass and angular momentum transfer, the B star somehow has to succeed to form and maintain the disk. Since rapid rotation is only necessary but not sufficient for this transformation, the effect of duplicity would merely be to give more stars the opportunity to become a Be star. Model (1) is not nearly realistic as is also underlined by a new spectroscopic survey for cool companions. The verification of (2) on the basis of the ROSAT All-Sky Survey has just begun; but a serious deficiency of white dwarf companions is already apparent. Binarity currently provides no extra clue on the origin of the Be phenomenon.

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