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Gourav Banerjee, Blesson Mathew, Suman Bhattacharyya, Ashish Devaraj, Sreeja Kartha & Santosh Joshi

Study of the Balmer Decrements for Galactic Classical Be Stars Using the Himalayan Chandra Telescope of India

(Volume 93 - Année 2024 — No 2 - Proceeedings of the 3rd BINA Workshop on the Scientific Potential of the Indo-Belgian Cooperation)
DOI: 10.25518/0037-9565.11771
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Abstract

In a recent study, Banerjee et al. (2021) produced an atlas of all major emission lines found in a large sample of 115 Galactic field Be stars using the 2-m Himalayan Chandra Telescope (HCT) facility located at Ladakh, India. This paper presents our further exploration of these stars to estimate the electron density in their discs. Our study using Balmer decrement values indicate that their discs are generally optically thick in nature with electron density (ne) in their circumstellar envelopes (CEs) being in excess of 1013 cm-3 for around 65% of the stars. For another 19% stars, the average ne in their discs probably range between 1012 cm-3 and 1013 cm-3. We noticed that the nature of the Hα and Hβ line profiles might not influence the observed Balmer decrement values (i.e. D34 and D54) of the sample of stars. Interestingly, we also found that around 50% of the Be stars displaying D34 greater than 2.7 are of earlier spectral types, i.e. within B0 -B3.

Keywords : Be star, spectroscopy, emission lines, Balmer decrement, variability

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Gourav Banerjee, Blesson Mathew, Suman Bhattacharyya, Ashish Devaraj, Sreeja Kartha & Santosh Joshi, «Study of the Balmer Decrements for Galactic Classical Be Stars Using the Himalayan Chandra Telescope of India», Bulletin de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège [En ligne], Volume 93 - Année 2024, No 2 - Proceeedings of the 3rd BINA Workshop on the Scientific Potential of the Indo-Belgian Cooperation, 504-513 URL : http://popups.ulg.be/0037-9565/index.php?id=11771.

A propos de : Gourav Banerjee

Department of Physics and Electronics, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Hosur Main Road, Bangalore, India. Corresponding author: gourav.banerjee@res.christuniversity.in

A propos de : Blesson Mathew

Department of Physics and Electronics, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Hosur Main Road, Bangalore, India

A propos de : Suman Bhattacharyya

Department of Physics and Electronics, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Hosur Main Road, Bangalore, India

A propos de : Ashish Devaraj

Department of Physics and Electronics, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Hosur Main Road, Bangalore, India

A propos de : Sreeja Kartha

Department of Physics and Electronics, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Hosur Main Road, Bangalore, India

A propos de : Santosh Joshi

Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences, Nanital, India