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The Be star content of young open clusters

Juan Fabregat

subject

Astrophysics (astro-ph)Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar AstrophysicsFOS: Physical sciencesAstrophysics::Earth and Planetary AstrophysicsAstrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic AstrophysicsAstrophysicsAstrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics

description

We present a photometric survey aimed to characterize the Be star population of young open clusters. It is found that in these clusters early-type Be stars are more frequent than in the galactic field, and late-type Be stars are scarce or inexistent. We interpret this result as evidence for an evolutionary enhancement of the Be phenomenon towards the end of the main sequence lifetime.

https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0210653