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Final Remarks on the Binary Hypothesis for the Be Stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

Miroslav Plavec*
Affiliation:
Dept. of Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, Calif., U.S.A.

Abstract

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The hypothesis that a significant fraction of Be stars are interacting binaries is discussed in general terms. The author believes that the observed Be stars are a mixture of three different types of objects. The weakest point of the single-star hypothesis is probably the difficulty in explaining the quasi-periodic V/R variations; the weakest point of the binary hypothesis appears to be the statistical expectancy of a fairly high number of eclipsing systems among them.

Type
Part VI: Single Versus Binary Stars
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1976 

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