Spatially resolving the wind and disk structures around active B-type stars

Christopher Tycner

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Abstract

Long-baseline optical and IR interferometers now routinely resolve the wind and disk-like structures around early-type stars. The typical angular scales resolved by current generation of instruments are well bellow the milli-arcsecond level. These type of observations allow, in some cases for the first time, placing very tight constraints on current theories and models of the circumstellar structures around these type of stars. Specific examples of observations obtained at the Navy Prototype Optical interferometer of the spatially resolved regions around a luminous blue variable star P Cyg and a B-type star with circumstellar disk are presented. The need for connection between interferometric observables and physical parameters predicted by theory and numerical models are emphasized.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationActive OB stars
Subtitle of host publicationstructure, evolution, mass loss, and critical limits
PublisherCambridge University Press
Pages337-341
Number of pages5
EditionS272
ISBN (Print)9780521198400
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 2010

Publication series

NameProceedings of the International Astronomical Union
NumberS272
Volume6
ISSN (Print)1743-9213
ISSN (Electronic)1743-9221

Keywords

  • Be
  • Stars: emission-line
  • Techniques: interferometric

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