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6 papers

astro-ph.SR2025

Circini: A massive hierarchical triple system with an eclipsing binary

J. Švrčková, P. Harmanec, R. Klement +6

Circini is known to be a massive multiple system containing a 3.9 d inner eclipsing binary in a slightly elliptical orbit exhibiting slow apsidal motion and a distant tertiary…

astro-ph.SR2025

Discovery of the binary nature of the magnetospheric B-type star Oph A

M. E. Shultz, I. Berry, D. Bohlender +11

The nearby B-type star Oph A was recently identified as a rapidly rotating magnetic B-type star with variable radio and X-ray emission consistent with a magnetospheric origin.…

astro-ph.SR2025

The birth of Be star disks I. From localized ejection to circularization

J. Labadie-Bartz, A. C. Carciofi, A. C. Rubio +35

Classical Be stars are well known to eject mass, but the details governing the initial distribution and evolution of this matter into a disk are poorly constrained by observations.…

astro-ph.SR2025

Newborn Be star systems observed shortly after mass transfer

Th. Rivinius, R. Klement, S. D. Chojnowski +24

Many classical Be stars acquire their very rapid rotation by mass and angular-momentum transfer in massive binaries. Short-lived intermediate-phase objects have only been discovere…

astro-ph.SR2025

VLTI/GRAVITY enables the determination of the first dynamical masses of a classical Be + stripped and bloated pre-subdwarf binary

R. Klement, Th. Rivinius, D. Baade +7

HR~6819 is the first post-mass transfer binary system composed of a classical Be star and a bloated pre-subdwarf stripped star directly confirmed by interferometry. While the Be st…

astro-ph.SR2024

Classical Be stars

Thomas Rivinius, Robert Klement

Classical Be stars, the "e" standing for the presence of spectroscopic line emission, are main sequence stars of spectral type B that are able to form a gaseous disk in Keplerian m…