B[e] Stars

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Current Definition of B[e] Stars

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-15

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   2. Search for B[e] Stars in Young Open Clusters

      • D. De Winter, M. E. Van Den Ancker, M. R. Pérez

      Pages 21-26

3. Distances, Kinematics and Distribution of B[e] Stars in Our Galaxy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-42

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   2. Absolute Magnitudes for some B[e] Stars from Hipparcos

      • D. Briot, N. Robichon

      Pages 47-52

   3. Tycho Photometry of some B[e] Stars

      • M. Floquet, J. L. Halbwachs, A. M. Hubert

      Pages 53-54

   4. Fundamental Parameters of Two B[e] Stars: HD 45677 and HD 50138

      • J. Zorec, A. Moujtahid, D. Ballereau, J. Chauville

      Pages 55-56

   5. Ultraviolet Extinction of Circumstellar Dust in HD 45677

      • A. Moujtahid, J. Zorec, A. M. Hubert

      Pages 57-59

4. Spectroscopy of B[e] Stars

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-76

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   2. The Self Absorption Curve Method for the Analysis of Emission Lines of Complex Ions as a Diagnostic of the Structure of Stellar Envelopes

      • M. Friedjung

      Pages 79-83

   3. The High Excitation Fe II Lines as a Diagnostics of the Outer Envelopes of Early Type Emission Line Stars

      • R. Viotti, A. Damineli, C. Rossi

      Pages 85-89

   4. Nitrogen V in the Wind of the Pre-Main Sequence Herbig Ae Star AB Aur

      • J.-C. Bouret, C. Catala, T. Simon

      Pages 91-95

   5. New Spectroscopic Results for the Galactic B[e]-Supergiant MWC 314

      • Y. Frémat, A. S. Miroshnichenko, L. Houziaux

      Pages 97-99

   6. High-Resolution Spectroscopy of HD 45677

      • G. L. Israelian, F. Musaev

      Pages 101-103

   7. The Galactic B[e] Supergiant Candidate HD 87643

      • René D. Oudmaijer

      Pages 105-107

   8. Rapid Spectral Variability and Spatial and Kinematical Structure of Circumstellar Envelopes of Some Ae/Be Stars

      • M. A. Pogodin

      Pages 109-110

5. Infrared Properties of B[e] Stars

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-125

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   2. New Spectroscopic Data of Luminous Peculiar B-Type Stars

      • F. X. De Araújo, D. F. Lopes, M. A. Machado

      Pages 127-129

   3. Dielectronic Recombination of Mg II. Influence in the Infrared Continuum of B[e] Stars

      • Alicia Cruzado, Adela E. Ringuelet, Héctor O. Di Rocco

      Pages 131-133

   4. Spectroscopy and Photometry of the B[e]—Star Candidates AS 78 and LS II +22°8

      • Tatiana A. Shejkina, Anatoly S. Miroshnichenko

      Pages 135-136

The idea of having a meeting came to the Editors when working on several aspects of galactic Be and B[e] stars. They found that a general summary of the properties of B[e] stars was missing, so that the organiza­ tion of a first meeting on these objects appeared as very useful. B[e] stars have hydrogen line emission and forbidden [Fe 11] and [0 I] emission lines in their spectra; they are also characterized by a strong IR excess due to circumstellar dust. Having a large amount of extinction in the UV and the visual they have been less frequently observed than other emission line objects. Although about one hundred galactic objects have been classified as B[e], only fif­ teen or so have been studied in some detail. Besides this, the evolutionary status of these objects is rat her controversial, are they pre-main sequence or stars on the way to become nUclei of planetary nebulae? Other difficult problems appear when considering the relations of these stars with other similar groups, like Herbig AeBe stars, Be, luminous blue variables and the superluminous B[e] stars observed in the Magellanic Clouds. The conference seems timely since large surveys like DENIS and 2Mass, plus new space and new instruments for the micron, millimeter and cen­ timeter wavelength region will result in the discovery of more stars of this group.

• Galaxy
• LOPES
• galaxies
• interferometry
• photometry
• spectroscopy
• stars

• Observatoire de Paris-Meudon, France

  Anne Marie Hubert

• Observatoire de Strasbourg, France

  Carlos Jaschek

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