The Be Star Newsletter, Volume 36 - April 2002

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Stellar and circumstellar variability of the
Be star Cen
IV: Spectroscopic data 1985-1999

Th. Rivinius1,3, S. Stefl2, O. Stahl3, B. Wolf3, A. Kaufer4,3, D. Baade1, Th. Dumm5, Th. Gäng6, J. Gracia3, C. Gummersbach3, I. Jankovics7, L. Kaper8, J. Kovács7, H. Lehmann9, H. Mandel3, J. Peitz10,3, D. Schäfer3, J. Schweickhardt3, W. Schmutz11,5, Th. Szeifert4,3, and S. Tubbesing3

1European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2, D-85748 Garching b. München, Germany
2Astronomical Institute, Academy of Sciences, CZ-25165 Ondrejov, Czech Republic
3Landessternwarte Königstuhl, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany
4European Southern Observatory, Casilla 19001, Santiago 19, Chile
5Institute of Astronomy, ETH Zentrum, CH-8092 Zürich
6Emergent IT, NASA's GSFC, Code 682.4, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
7Gothard Astrophysical Observatory, H-9707 Szombathely, Hungary
8Astronomical Institute "Anton Pannekoek" and Center for High-Energy Astrophysics, University of Amsterdam, Kruislaan 403, NL-1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
9Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg, Sternwarte 5, D-07778 Tautenburg
10Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik, Auf der Morgenstelle 10, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany
11PMOD/WRC, Dorfstrasse 33, CH-7260 Davos Dorf, Switzerland

For the bright southern Be star Cen, we publish all spectra that have been used in the previous papers of this series. An overview of the data is given and the published results obtained with these data are summarized. All data have been obtained from La Silla. In detail, these are 28 spectra taken with FLASH at the ESO 50 cm (400 nm to 670 nm), 426 blue and 443 red spectra taken with HEROS using the ESO 50 cm and the ESO 1.52 m (350 nm to 860 nm), 47 spectra taken with FEROS at the ESO 1.5 m (370 nm to 920 nm), 2×48 spectra taken with the Boller&Chivens at the ESO 1.52 m (345 nm to 510 nm), and 310 spectra of He I 6678 and 27 spectra of Si III 4553 taken with the CAT/CES.  Cen was found to be a multiperiodic non-radially pulsating star, with indications for a coupling between the multiperiodic beating and the star-to-disk mass transfer.

The Journal of Astronomical Data 7,5, CD-ROM in production
Preprints from triviniu@eso.org
or on the web at http://www.vub.ac.be/STER/JAD/JAD7/jad7.htm
Note: Due to the nature of the publication, an extensive (160MB) dataset on CD-ROM, only the descriptive paper accompanying the dataset is made available as preprint. To obtain a copy of the CD-ROM, please contact the publisher of JAD, Chris Sterken, at http://www.vub.ac.be/STER/JAD/jad.htm.


Last modified: April 14, 2002

David McDavid
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