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Recent Results from Ultraviolet and Optical Spectropolarimetry of Hot Stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2016

K.S. Bjorkman
K.S. Bjorkman*
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin, Space Astronomy Laboratory 1150 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53706 USA

Abstract

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The first comprehensive linear polarization data on hot stars covering the spectral range from 1500 to 7600Å are presented. These results are based on recent observations made with the Wisconsin Ultraviolet Photo-Polarimeter Experiment (WUPPE), combined with ground-based observations from the Pine Bluff Observatory. Implications of the data for models of the circumstellar envelopes of hot stars are discussed, with particular emphasis on the surprising results found for the rapidly rotating Be stars. In particular, WUPPE discovered that the continuum polarization in Be stars decreases into the ultraviolet, which was not predicted by models prior to the observations. Time variability in the optical data is also discussed. Possible interpretations of these results are examined in the light of recent new models for Be star disks.

Type
4. Polarization
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 162: Pulsation, Rotation and Mass Loss in Early-Type Stars , 1994 , pp. 219 - 229
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1994 

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